The work of the laboratory will take place around the delicate theme of the relationship between contemporary architecture and the historic city, between design and landscape.
The course is aimed at providing a compositional method that arises from the study and survey of the character traits of a sedimented context and then interprets the settlement principle.
Learning Objectives - Part D
Design research and the exercise of architectural composition will develop in places where the balance between architecture and the (Italian) landscape has been subverted, altered, modified.
The aim of the course is to provide a working method aimed at re-establishing a new balance between the historic and the contemporary city, based on the relief of the permanent signs of the territory and their consequent typological interpretation.
It will be a question of continuing the construction tradition of an established context through the reinterpretation of the settlement principles that have defined its specificity over time.
The architecture designed, like a mirror, must reflect the character of the place in which it is inserted, reverberate the network of correspondences that converge from the surrounding area and spread them out, increasing the typological and relational meanings of its context, both natural and built.
Prerequisites - Part D
Having taken the exams of the Architectural Design Laboratories (first, second, third year)
Teaching Methods - Part D
A series of lectures, aimed at fixing the themes of the design research ("Place", "Equilibrium", "Continuity", "Tradition", "Process" of architecture) will constitute the theoretical structure that will accompany the student during the study and development of the project.
Work on the project will be deepened and developed through weekly reviews.
Further information - Part D
The discussion of the final project will take place on the basis of the following documents, mandatory for the purpose of illustrating the project idea:
General plan of the project in scale 1: 1000 (inserted in the context).
Volumetric plan in 1: 500 scale of the project.
Plans of all levels of the project at a scale of 1: 200.
Elevations and sections in 1: 200 scale.
Perspective views.
Model in 1: 500 scale (of insertion to the 1: 500 situation model).
Final model in 1: 200 scale.
Brief description of the intervention (1 folder).
Type of Assessment - Part D
The work on the project (individually or in groups of two) will be monitored and deepened through the weekly reviews practiced after each theoretical lesson.
Course program - Part D
The work of the laboratory will take place around the delicate theme of the relationship between contemporary architecture and the historic city, between design and landscape; today, the process of alteration of the territory by the city represents the state of affairs in which the architect is called to work.
The course is aimed at providing a compositional method that arises from the study and survey of the character traits of a sedimented context and then interprets the settlement principle.
The purpose of the design work is to reiterate, through the analysis of historical residences and their consequent typological interpretation, the correspondence of the architecture of the city to its territory.
The exercise of the project again this year will take place in Florence, on the edge of the historic city, within a context that has changed and subverted by the events of its historical evolution that requires the qualification of its urban identity.
The chosen intervention area is Piazza Torquato Tasso, an urban space historically full of meanings, built in the Oltrarno area between Porta San Frediano and Porta Romana, south of the historic city of Florence.
From the doubling of the walls built by Cosimo I to the subsequent progressive development of the block to the north on the current Via della Chiesa, up to the transformations that took place between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the square is today the result of additions and modifications of the building that have altered its character of the original urban space.
The project is aimed at creating an outdoor stage space, with a multipurpose use (space for theatrical performances, cinema, events) whose functional program includes, in addition to the corresponding services, a multipurpose room intended for carrying out laboratories, workshops, temporary exhibitions and the redesign of outdoor spaces.
The square today is comparable to a sort of urban schedule of ancient measures that have settled and superimposed over time and which at present are scarcely to be foundThe purpose of the open-air theater project is to provide a contribution to the recomposition of the relationships and correspondences that qualified and gave architectural meaning to the city space through the typological interpretation of the traces (visible and invisible) that have followed one another in the history of formation of the identity of the place.
It will be a question of inserting a new measure, a new "piece" within the development process of the square, thus inserting itself in the trajectory of the interventions that have taken place over the years.
The open-air theater project will be like a probe placed to record the characters and measurements of the site and then return them in a contemporary form.
The intervention will follow the analysis of the character traits of the area and its historical, architectural, typological vocation and will move between respect and transformation, between confirmation and interpretation of its DNA.
Adherence to the urban morphology, the interpretation of the typology, the continuity of the architectural tradition and the settlement principle of the context will be the anchoring points of the project, an act of confidence between old and new, between history and contemporaneity.