ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN 3

Segment

Course Sheet

Course code:

AI303

Academic Year of enrolment:

2019

Year of supply:

2021/2022

Divisions:

Gruppo A

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

Location:

PESCARA

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

CALABRESE Vincenzo

Cycle:

Single Annual Cycle

Obligatory attendance:

Yes

Hours of classroom activity:

140

Individual study hours:

210

Prerequisites:

To take the Architectural Composition 3 exam, you must have taken Architectural Composition 2

Objectives

For Architectural Composition 3 the objectives are:
- 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 artefacts;
- 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;
- to acquire the ability to give coherent form to the architectural-functional program for a building for public use, as well as the ability to control the scales of the project, in particular from the urban scale to that of the executive detail.

The following skills will also be assessed:

- KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
Knowledge deriving from the study of the theoretical-practical tools of architectural design
Knowledge deriving from the design applied to the different scales and types of intervention
Ability to understand the relationships between an architectural project and one's physical and social context
Ability to manage the control of the entire architectural design process, from concept to executive project

- AUTONOMY OF JUDGMENT
The development of independent judgment will be encouraged through the elaboration of projects in which the student will be stimulated to develop his critical spirit, and to make decisions, both individually and in working groups, simulating the multidisciplinary operational modalities present in the professional activity. .
- COMMUNICATION SKILLS
The teaching activities are organized ensuring group work and interaction with the teacher and external guests. In fact, the model of the workshop is flanked by the model of the ex cathedra lesson, which foresees the active participation of the student in working groups and the possible external contribution of expert interlocutors. In addition, methods and techniques of digital representation and communication are adopted in the various teaching courses, enhancing the use of multimedia communication systems. Communication skills are also developed through cultural exchange opportunities through international mobility at affiliated foreign offices.
- ABILITY TO LEARN
The alternation of traditional training moments (frontal lessons) with moments dedicated to exercises, aimed at stimulating the learner's ability to self-organize, will contribute to the achievement of this objective. In particular, in the fifth year of the course, the planned activities are mainly oriented towards applied training experiences, including external internships, which accompany the student in the choice of the subject area in which to carry out the Laboratory for the preparation of the degree thesis.

Contents

The Architectural Composition 3 course aims to understand and design a public building.
Obviously this entails first of all being aware of what a public space is in general, its role in society, its role in urban design and landscape, its close relationship with infrastructural networks at whatever scale they are intended, its structure, its functional program, and obviously the aesthetics that will ultimately represent it.
During the course the teacher will try to deliver to the students input from different disciplines, from the most technical to the more humanistic and artistic ones in general.

Extended Syllabus

The 3 architectural composition courses begin with a workshop that runs from 6 September to 11 September 2021, which has several purposes, including two main ones:
- introduce the topic of the actual course which will start at the end of February 2022;
- introduce students to the basic elements of the design of a public building;
The two courses A and B will begin with the activities leading to the final exam at the end of February 2022. Students will have the right to decide which course to attend based on their assessments, obviously aware of the fact that there must be a minimum of balance number among the subscribers.
Both are aimed at understanding and designing a public building.
Obviously this entails first of all being aware of what a public space is in general, its role in society, its role in urban design and landscape, its close relationship with infrastructural networks at whatever scale they are intended, its structure, its functional program, and obviously the aesthetics that will ultimately represent it.

In particular, the 3A architectural composition course will deal with the design of a building at the service of the existing D'Annunzio Theater, and its restoration.
The demolition of the Flaiano theater will be taken for granted, which stands nearby with an architecture of inexplicable banality.
The D'Annunzio theater, inside the D'Annunzio pine forest, is an iconic and very representative place in the history and culture of the City of Pescara.
The need for renovation, modernization and the construction of a service building to support it are a very delicate issue given the particularity of the area.
It will have to represent a perfect combination of architecture and urban and natural landscape, respect tradition without mimesis and useless reverence with the past, will take care of enhancing the D'Annunzio pine forest respecting it without shyness but with sensitivity and passion in search of beauty.

Recommended Bibliography

The reference texts are not intended as a list of things to be read compulsorily, but as a possible cultured place made up of intuitions and titles, on which a student can draw to satisfy their doubts and knowledge.
With some texts that the student will make of him, he will build his own personality and awareness in architecture:

Bruno Zevi, Counterhistory
Robert Venturi, Learning from Las Vegas
Robert Venturi, Complexity and Contradictions in Architecture
Benedetto Croce, Aesthetics
Marshall Mc Luhan, The Tools of Communicating
Margueritte Yourcenair, Memoirs of Hadrian
Paul Feyerabend, Against the Method
Bruno Zevi, Knowing how to see architecture
Gregory Bateson, Towards an Ecology of the Mind
Herman Hertzberger, Spaces on a human scale
Giancarlo De Carlo, Space, the reality of living together
Carlos Matì Arìs, The rib and the arch
Alvar Aalto, Architecture, Design, and Art

Teaching Methods

The Architectural Composition 3 course includes a series of activities including:
Frontal lessons, workshops, exercises, thematic lessons with external guests, film screening, laboratory activities with discussions on the progress of the project

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

Intermediate deliveries of project documents, exercises on specific design issues, theoretical discussions in the laboratory

Contacts/More Information

The 3A Architectural Composition course will make use of other tools, such as the formation of a social group through which to share ideas, reflections, problems, information and projects useful to complete the knowledge necessary for the success of the course itself. .
There will also be the screening of themed films and lectures / debates with external guests

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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