FINAL SYNTHESIS STUDIO - LABORATORY B
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2019/2020
- Teacher
- VITTORIO LONGHEU
- Credits
- 22
- Didactic period
- Annualità Singola
Training objectives
- INTRODUCTION_The size of the small_ on a smaller scale
Every day we happen to drive homogeneous, desolate and often hermetic residential areas in cars. They are the outskirts of the contemporary widespread city. The reality that unites them is an image that does not work, dispersed and boring. Thus the contemporary city, fragmented and multiethnic, seen from afar resembles a great “dripping”. This "negative identity" (born from mediocrity and from the ordinary repetition of two- and three-family houses, isolated houses on the hill, an infinity of warehouses, infrastructures around which large shopping centers and places of entertainment are located ) is characterized by a continuous appearance of solitary building presences; which tell of an unavoidably boring and somewhat false existence, with homologated and resigned behaviors to long days of incommunicability. Thus the daily narration of these places flows slowly without particular vibrations, in a latent coma that continuously consumes time and space. What to do? To save the city, it is no longer possible to imagine a replacement of the new one, now structurally rooted in the territory. A hypothesis that develops specific and targeted interventions of cultural and urban regeneration seems more convincing. The theme to be addressed is therefore that of working in cultural divisions and connecting the common space. A new vision of society and of the collective space is emerging today. It is aimed at a broad idea at the center of which are issues such as social inclusion, the regeneration of places devastated by wars, speculation, the underworld and the search for settlement models capable of improving the quality of the environment. At the same time it is necessary to make a serious reflection on a vision of development that is still supported by an arrogant capitalism. This new attitude is common to many good but not necessarily well-known designers, who do not fall into despair due to the scarcity of means at their disposal, whose creativity, even if constrained by a thousand constraints, finds its strength and dignity even in small daily victories. that make many people happy. These works speak to us of the ability to tell the founding relationship between culture, history and landscape with creativity and intelligence. Works aimed at renewing those shared values on which the common sense of public space and the values of a community are based. Works with a new, poetic and courageous outlook, to rethink projects that give answers to the social collapse we live in today. Prerequisites
- Passing the preparatory exams is essential. Basic skill in freehand study drawing and sufficient technical skills in 2D, 3D and rendering is required. In addition, the ability to build physical models, in adequate scale and material, describing the design hypothesis is required.
Course programme
- The course offers students the opportunity to develop a project on small spaces and places of relationship inside and outside. In these places it is possible to carry out actions of urban regeneration, social cohesion and cultural attention. Small places, even furniture, will have to express an original identity in tune with key words such as sustainability, technique, craftsmanship. They can be thought of as small new spaces even within existing spaces. They may be stable and well rooted in the ground or mobile and wandering in the landscape. They must be equipped for the use for which they were imagined. By way of example, they may be small buildings to be used as meeting places, small libraries or reading rooms. Or by encouraging the regeneration of the existing space, interventions can also be carried out within already built spaces. Meeting places such as bus stops. Small places of social assistance where to carry out actions such as washing or cooking. Particular attention will be paid to the design of the equipment inserted within these spaces which will be designed as real series products (chairs, tables, containers, lamps, sinks, kitchens, etc.)
The specific programs of each module will be communicated during the first lessons.. Didactic methods
- The teaching activity is divided into lessons, seminars, open lectures (where external speakers will be invited) and laboratory workshops. The didactic path ends with the "final critcs", where the commission will examine and evaluate the material produced by the students during the workshop. The entire teaching activity aims to provide students with the technical and analytical tools to tackle projects of different types related to interior design at different scales. At the beginning of the course, each student must equip himself with two notebooks in 37x28 cm format. The first will contain, in an orderly manner, the student's notes on the lessons of the course with notes, drawings, etc. The second must contain the first design hypotheses and the study drawings that the same will do during the course. Both notebooks will be evaluated during the “final critcs”.
Learning assessment procedures
- The level of learning of the course contents will be verified both with the "final critcs" and with a series of intermediate tests. The final exam will include the delivery of a series of drawings on the chosen project theme and their verification through a discussion with the teachers. During the course, students will be given a paper that will specify the "guidelines for the exam papers".
As for the intermediate tests, each teacher will propose various exercises related to the theme of their teaching module. Reference texts
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Specific bibliographic information provided at lesson.
