ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN - LABORATORY IV (LAB C)
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2021/2022
- Teacher
- ANTONIO RAVALLI
- Credits
- 11
- Didactic period
- Secondo Semestre
Training objectives
- KNOWLEDGE
The laboratory aims to stimulate a reflection on urban regeneration, tracing back its premises to the financial-economic crisis internationally widespread from 2008 onwards, in order to critically asses its effects on territorial and urban transformation. Due to those premises, the design assignment will focus on a decommissioned industrial site within a middle-size metropolitan area. The proposal should set up a reactivation strategy of the site. Starting from the changing horizon generated by the crisis, students will be invited to rethink instruments and objectives of the work of the architect, taking into particular attention his/her social role within the contemporary conjuncture.
ABILITY
Students are expected to acquire a deep knowledge regarding the complex dynamics dealing with society, economics, politics and culture, which are qualifying the contemporary time, understanding their fundative principles and the reciprocal interrelations. Coherently, students have to recognize the necessity to act within multidisciplinary team, thought which it is possible to recognize the different instances developed by stakeholders claiming a role within the transformative processes. Prerequisites
- KNOWLEDGE
Students, in order to fruitfully dealing with urban regenerations, should demonstrate a clear attitude to multidisciplinary, mutually relating the plurality of the investigated phenomena.
ABILITY
Students, in order to fruitfully dealing with urban regenerations, should demonstrate a clear attitude to multidisciplinary approach, mutually relating the plurality of the investigated phenomena. Course programme
- Coherently to formative objectives and prerequisites, the laboratory title will be “Regenerating the decommissioned. The city as limit”. The course will start from the programmatic state of indeterminacy prompted by the contemporary urban phenomena, literally suspended between the “not anymore” delivered by the creative finance recent failure and the “not yet” of the community to come. Students will be asked to critically reflect on a case-history which emblematically states the complexity of the current situation, of course preselected by Lab responsible people. Both the preliminary analyses and the first explorations have to demonstrate their inherence to uncertainties, programmatic instability and multiplicity already reminded, developing it in order to define challenged “research questions”. The design assignment shall answer those questions, both in compositional and materials terms. To guarantee the aim, all the disciplines will run parallel to achieve the expected results according to the following contents:
ARCHITECTURAL COMPOSITION
The module will offer students the general framework into which the critical reflection on the relation between design and preexisting conditions progressively developed from the post-World War II onwards. The narrative will be articulated according to clearly defined cultural seasons. This achievement will guarantee students to achieve a deep knowledge of the actual condition and its necessity.
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
The module will offer students the specific case studies, representatives of the general framework dealing with regeneration process, in order to learn the lesson of the protagonists.
URBANISM
The module will offer students the basic legislative instruments to deal with regeneration processes. In such a way, it will be possible to understand the economic-financial and social-political implications of their own hypotheses in relation to the elected site-specific conditions. Didactic methods
Learning assessment procedures
Reference texts
- Markus Breitschmid,Non-Referential Architecture: Ideated by Valerio Olgiati, Park Book, Zurich 2019
Urban Task Force, Towards an Urban Renaissance, E & FN Spoon, London, 1999
KCAP, Situations, NAI Publishers, Rotterdam, 2005
LSE, Deutsche Bank,The Endless City, London, Phaidon, 2008
Martina Baum, Kees Christiaanse,City as Loft, London, GTA Publisher, 2013
G. Clement, Manifesto del terzo paesaggio, Quodlibet, 2005
