Teacher

Pietro VALLE

Credits

9 CFU

Didactic goals

The Architectural Design Studio aims at studying the meaning of contemporary dwelling and the relationships thta can be established between public and private space in a housing project sited in an urban context and including a portion of re-use of an existing building, an abandoned army barracks.

The theme of collective dwelling is a fundamental one for architects. More than programs, it deals with the translations of social models into real material space. The designer is called to imagine both the individual environment (the housing unit) and the community formed by more units that shares common spaces and circulation. Housing requires the integration of three design scales:

1- The individual unit with the creation of a dily infrastructure for a restricted group of pepole that shares a dwelling and needs comfort and a spatial subdivision that provides both individual privacy and shared moments.

2- The grouping of more units witht hte definition of shared elements and relational spaces that mediate between the individual and the community

3- The insertion of the housing complex in a larger context with the study of the relationship of an individual buildings with the surrounding urban context in a way to establish a dialogue between the two and a sense of belonging to a larger place.

Acquired Skills

– Analysis of a urban/territorial context
– Theretical elaboration on a psecific typological subject, its settlement and social values
– Design development and dimensional control at the multiple scales of the project
– Plan, elevation and section composition with regards to the urban setting
– Technolgical, structural and material strategies
– Project representation: model, sketch, drawing, dwg drawing, 3d modeling

Program

20% of the time is given to lectures. The remaining time is spent in the design work in a studio laboratory format, with the attendance of all the students. During the semester graphic materials related to the proposed deisgn theme will be given to the students.

Lecture themes

The housing unit
The main housing themes and their combination
The housing compex and the city
Re-use and new construction

Total lecture hours and design studio: 182 hours with 35 lectures hours

Bibliography

Giovanni Corbellini, Housing is back in Town, Breve Guida all'Abitazione Collettiva, Lettera22, 2012

Oliver Heckman and Friederike Schneider, Floor Plan Manual Housing, (4th edition) Birkhauser, 2011

Roger Sherwood, Modern Housing Prototypes, Harvard University Press, 1981

Robin Evans, "Figures, Doors and Passages", in Architectural Design, vol.4, n.48, April 1978, pp.267-278, re-published in Translations from Drawings to Buildings and Other Essays, Architectural Association Press 1997, pp.55-92.

Ignasi del Solà Morales, “Dal Contrasto all'Analogia. Trasformazioni nella Concezione dell’Intervento Architettonico ”, in Lotus International, 46, 1985, pp.37-45

Bruno Reichlin, “Riflessioni sulla Conservazione del Patrimonio Architettonico” in Riuso del Patrimonio Architettonico, numero monografico dei Quaderni dell'Accademia di Architettura, Mendrisio, edited by Bruno Pedretti and Bruno Reichlin, pp.11-30, 2011

Moreno Baccichet, Fortezza FVG, dalla Guerra fredda alle Aree Militari Dismesse, Edicom, Monfalcone 2015

Final exam

The exam will see the final presentation of the design development, complete with their construxtion and compositional aspects in A1 printed drawings and a 3d model-