ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN 3 (TAF B)

Alphabetic division AF - GZ

Course Sheet

Course code:

AI754

Academic Year of enrolment:

2016

Year of supply:

2018/2019

Divisions:

Gruppo D

Type of Course:

Characterising

Degree:

Course of Single Cycle Degree 5 years in ARCHITECTURE

Disciplinary Sector:

Architectural and Urban Composition

Is part of:

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN 3 (TAF B)

Location:

PESCARA

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

POZZI Carlo

Cycle:

First semester

Obligatory attendance:

Yes

Hours of classroom activity:

100

Individual study hours:

150

Prerequisites:

Composizione I e II,
Statica delle Strutture

Objectives

1. to acquire the tools for the analysis of a territorial context also in relation to the infrastructural networks to identify the themes for the transformation and the conditions for the insertion of architectural artifacts;
2. to experiment the path of defining an architectural-functional program for an architectural project in its technical and formal characteristics and in its relations with public spaces;
3. to acquire the ability to give a coherent form to the architectural-functional program for a building of public use, as well as the ability to control the scale of the project, in particular from the urban scale to that of the executive detail.

Contents

-Pescara: city in transformation
-the search for a functional mixité: alternate sports destinations linked to public uses and collective facilities; new quality of green spaces and public buildings
-the role of green: the urban landscape and the last remnants of the countryside in the city: relations with the Pinewood and the sea

Extended Syllabus

Premise
The course of Composition 3 of this academic year deals with some topics within a contemporary architectural culture that for some years already wonders about:
-new ways of living that provide greater flexibility of housing;
- the search for a functional mixité, in the settlement complex but also already within the architectural block, which sees the residential destinations alternating and binding itself to public uses and collective facilities;
-the role of green: the urban landscape and the last remnants of the countryside in the city: relations with the railway, the park road, the Pinewood, the sea.
The focus of the research project will be the criticality introduced into the buildings by the new pressing climate issues and the need to respond with skillful use of passive building systems and energy technologies linked to renewable sources.

Design themes
The study area, to which the work of analysis and research applies, concerns the so-called ex-Enaip sector: some very modest buildings that housed a vocational training center have been left to decay.
The area is located on the Adriatic front between the North Riviera and the Park road, in the stretch crossed by the curvilinear path that remains of the route and the bridge of the former FEA.
The entire sector also presents widespread phenomena of micro-criminality and obvious social marginalization, as can be seen from the news in the local online newspapers.
The former Enaip is included in the Plan of the assets that can be disposed of by the Municipality, in the last place of the long list of 74 properties. The area was sold together with other properties by the Agenzia del Demanio to the Pescara agency. The goal of the municipal administration would be to use this property to make it the object of exchange with the owners of the area next to the Naiads, where the Municipality wants to build the north park for years. In practice, the owners would be allowed to build a real estate complex in the former Enaip, in exchange for transferring their area to the municipality. But this hypothesis is strongly criticized by the opposition.
The design hypothesis will try to reason on a possible compromise between new residential construction and collective spaces facing the sea, mindful of the lesson of the city garden in the three shreds of Pescara (Free Plan, Piano Cup, Case dei Ferrovieri) but without nostalgic and conservative attitudes .
We will reason by organizing the thought starting from some key words and the most significant projects that can be used as a reference:
Natural air conditioning, Complexity, Hybridization, Iconicity, Ludicity, Plurality-Articulation, Prefabrication, Reversibility, Reuse and Recycling, Vacuum-Fluidity-Porosity, collective space, infrastructural space, natural space.
Frequency
Attendance is mandatory: verification is done through frequent deliveries and collective seminars on the progress of the project.

Type of teaching
The mode is mixed:
- video projection on contemporary architecture related to housing and discussion of themes;
- ex-cathedra lesson on the themes of the program;
- discussion tables around the themes of the project.

Recommended Bibliography

1. K. Frampton, Tettonica e architettura, Skira, Milano 1999
2. A. Muntoni, Lineamenti di storia dell’architettura contemporanea, Laterza, Bari-Roma 2000
3. R. Pavia, C. Pozzi, Pescara e l’area metropolitana (Numero monografico de “L’architettura cronache e storia”), Mancosu, Roma 2003
4. M. A. Segantini, Atlante dell’abitare contemporaneo, Skira. Milano 2008
5. G. Biondillo, M. Monina, Tangenziali. Due viandanti ai bordi della città, Guanda, Parma 2010
6. C. Pozzi, Il clima come materiale da costruzione e altri scritti su Le Corbusier, Libria, Melfi 2015
7. V. Fabietti, C. Pozzi, From Sprawl to Slum, LetteraVentidue, Siracusa 2018

Teaching Methods

The cycle of lessons will be articulated according to differentiated contributions aimed at enlarging the awareness area in relation to the complexity of the design process:
- 1st. Conferences and invitations
On the project in the landscape, on issues of urban eco-compatibility, on infrastructural themes;
- 2. Architecture video
Architectures realized in the modernity and in the contemporaneity, which graft a reflection linked to the actuality of the project;
- 3rd. Ex-cathedra lessons
The contemporary physical and cultural scenario in which the project is located. The methods for identifying the context and the criteria for interpretation are suggested: urban history and the current features of the area (transformation tools - plans and projects - methods of use);
- 4th. The city on a metropolitan scale in literature
Seminar held by Oscar Buonamano who will accompany the development of the project.
The design exercises are applied to a Pescara area-study with discussion tables around the themes of the project and the different approaches.
The revisions are in the first collective part, around the tables, then intermediate seminars, and finally individual reviews.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

The exam will focus on the evaluation of the project with insights related to technical and theoretical issues and to paths in the experience of modern and contemporary architecture

Contacts/More Information

Laboratory “Micara spaces”, Viale Pindaro, on the days provided for in the timetable

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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