ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN - LABORATORY III (LAB A)
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2018/2019
- Teacher
- ALESSANDRO CAMBI
- Credits
- 11
- Didactic period
- Primo Semestre
Training objectives
- The course aims to guide the student to conceive the architectural project as a complex relation between design techniques and knowledge instruments.
His main training objective is to prepare to manage the whole process leading to the production of high-quality architecture: from conception to construction and to the interactions between building and environment, focusing on the habitability, the consistency between structural, typological, distributive and technological choices.
Moving from the strategic conception to its development up to the final draft, through steps allowing a scalar approach to the theme of project of architecture, from strategy to the architectural design.
Knowledge
Thorough knowledge of the theoretical and scientific aspects, as well as methodological and operational ones, related to the disciplinary field characterizing the course.
Skills
Being able to use this knowledge to identify, formulate and solve, also using innovative approaches, complex issues about architecture and building, requiring also an interdisciplinary approach.
In particular, the course places the specialist building at the center of the design experience. Its main training objective is the mastering of the entire process: from the definition of the building program to the specification of all the architectural aspects. While not neglecting the relationship with the surrounding environment, the project deals with the internal coherence of the object (its habitability conditions, the congruence between structural and distribution choices, the construction model definition). The course also aims to develop the student's critical thinking skills in assessing the relationships between the various scales of the project. Prerequisites
- They can take the exam only those who have passed the following examinations:
- Laboratory of Architectural Design II
- Laboratory building architecture I
The student must have acquired basics subject notions such as the principles of functional morphological and typological design, and the ability to prepare and organize a simple project located in an urban context.
At the same time the student must have acquired the basic concepts related to the Modern architectural theory and the leading figures of the contemporary architecture. Course programme
- The architectural project is developed through topics concerning the design tools, control methods and techniques that allow the architectural definition of the project.
The course, which consists of lectures, short exercises, one long exercise and revisions, is divided into three phases: the first dedicated to a brief exploration of the complexity of the architectural design in the urban context and the definition of a strategic approach to the architecture project.
A second phase focused on the study of compositional techniques useful in the preparation of the project of a single complex building located within an urban context.
A third part aimed at a reflection on the technical aspects of the project.
The end result is a project for a public building.
Communication:
1_ The fundamentals elements of architecture
2- Scrap Elements
3_ Urban point Stimulation
4_ De_ri_assembling
5_Cross strategy
6- Hybrid Architecture
7_ Temporary
8_ Atlas of Recycled Landscapes
9_ The modern Italian: When We Were Kings
10 - Contemporary architectural Strategies: grafts, parasites, generic buildings
11_ Solid Architecture
12_ Creative Destruction Didactic methods
- The course consists of classroom lectures critical theoretical, short exercises, one long excercise, reviews and audits relating to design exercises conducted on the study area.
Development of the project will take place mainly through the architectural model, the latter used as a research tool, from which students will experience and appropriate more personal and investigative tools such as drawing, images, photomontages.
Short exercises, performed in the classroom, are functional to the understanding of some fundamental aspects that allow, at the end of the lectures, to have defined both the methodological and the architectural part of the project.
The long tutorial covers the design of a complex building located in an urban context.
The majority of the work so expected must be done in the classroom.
At the end of the lecture series is held a workshop in which we deepen some project themes useful to the final definition of the architectural work. The exercise will be carried out in groups of two or three students. Learning assessment procedures
- During the course three stages of verification are identified, which correspond to the three development stages of the architectural idea. Each verification phase one vote.
The first two tests are carried out one about the end of the lectures on strategy, the other after lessons dealing with definition of masterplan and early architectural elements.
The final exercise will have as evaluation the sum of the three following phases.
The final exam will focus on the discussion of the design process, the themes and issues addressed during lessons by mean of to the works presented in the examination.
The final examination, oral, is the third and final verification of the course. Reference texts
- GAUSA MANUEL, GUILLARD VINCENTE, SORIANO FEDERICO, the metapolis dictionary of advanxed architecture, Actar, 2003
REM KOOLHAAS: S,M,L,XL - Editor Jennifer Sigler NY 1995
STEVEN HOLL, This is hybrid, Bertrams 2014
