Programme

Students (individual or in groups of two) will be involved in the project of a small public building - a museum - in the former slaughterhouse in Testaccio. The museum architecture, beyond its specialized aspects, appears particularly well qualified to experience the first approach to a complex building, for its aesthetic and functional constraints, for the presence of different uses, and for his close relationship with public space. From this point of view, locating in the former slaughterhouse is focusing on familiarity that students have with the place, in order to implement the project with the experience already acquired in terms of measures and use of space, as well as relationships with the urban context.
We will alternate lectures, focus upon individual design aspects, laboratory work, exercises on specific issues, with the aim to advance the student's architectural skills and the representation / presentation of their ideas. There will be periodic connections and shared experiences with the two parallel courses.

Core Documentation

- Patricia Cummings Loud, Louis I. Kahn. I musei, Electa, Milano 1997.
- Giovanni Longobardi, Musei. Manuale di progettazione, Mancosu, Roma 2007.

Reference Bibliography

- Adolf Loos, Il principio del rivestimento, in Parole nel vuoto, Adelphi, Milano 1972. - Juhani Pallasmaa, Gli occhi della pelle. L’architettura e i sensi, Jaca Book, Milano 2007.

Type of delivery of the course

The workshop takes place alternating theoretical lessons and practical design work. The project can be developed alone or in a group of up to two students. The practical work in the classroom is continuously assisted by the professor in charge and by the holders of the didactic supports. Some general revisions are planned for a collective verification of the progress of the work. In the case of an extension of the health emergency from COVID-19, all the provisions that regulate the methods of carrying out the teaching activities and student assessment will be implemented.

Attendance

Attendance is mandatory. It is tracked taking note of the presence at the general reviews and of the various interviews that took place during the semester.

Type of evaluation

Evaluation of the project and its correspondence to the topics covered during the workshop. In the case of an extension of the health emergency from COVID-19, all the provisions that regulate the methods of carrying out the teaching activities and student assessment will be implemented. In this case, the exam will take place in the form of a remote oral interview on the Microsoft Teams platform. The requested graphic works must be sent in pdf format to the teacher three days before the exam date published on the official calendar.

Programme

The Studio will focus on an Architectural Design of building of medium scale and complexity. The students will be asked to pay attention to the tectonic components of its architectural space, but at the same time start to focus on a critical relationships with the urban environment and with open spaces.

Core Documentation

F. Cellini, Manualetto. Norme tecniche, costruttive e grafiche per lo svolgimento di una esercitazione sul tema della casa unifamiliare, Città Studi, Milano, 1991
F. Venezia, Le opere, gli scritti, la critica, Electa, Venezia, 1998
K. Frampton, Tettonica e architettura. Poetica della forma architettonica nel XIX e XX secolo. Skira, Milano, 2005

Reference Bibliography

F. Cellini, Manualetto. Norme tecniche, costruttive e grafiche per lo svolgimento di una esercitazione sul tema della casa unifamiliare, Città Studi, Milano, 1991 F. Venezia, Le opere, gli scritti, la critica, Electa, Venezia, 1998 K. Frampton, Tettonica e architettura. Poetica della forma architettonica nel XIX e XX secolo. Skira, Milano, 2005

Type of delivery of the course

The Design Studio will be conducted using a combination of one-to-many lessons with Seminars where student projects are examinated. These Seminars can be individual but will also be conducted in a collective and shared manner, in order to build a global awareness of the design topics that are investigated within the Laboratory. Sessions of lectures will also be organized as shared topics with the parallel studios of the same year and semester. Again, with the intent of building a global and shared "critical mass of thought" around design for the 2nd year students. In the case of an extension of the health emergency from COVID-19, all the provisions that regulate the methods of carrying out the teaching activities and student assessment will be implemented.

Attendance

Attendance at the course is mandatory for 75%

Type of evaluation

The Studio evaluation will be based on the design presented at the final exam. The final judgment, though, will also take into account the evolution process of the design, and the awareness gained by the students on the learning objectives of the Studio, despite of the technical result obtained by the project completed at the end of the Studio. In the case of an extension of the health emergency from COVID-19, all the provisions that regulate the methods of carrying out the teaching activities and student assessment will be implemented.

Programme

Presentation of the project theme
Re-functionalization project of a pavilion of the Ex-Mattatoio complex in Testaccio (Rome) for the construction of exhibition spaces and specialized laboratories of the Department of Architecture (Laboratory for the realization of models and prototypes) with adjoining work spaces for students architects. The design experience is linked to the field of research relating to architecture for culture (in particular buildings for university education and museums), to the regeneration of public space, to the relationship between history and design.

Functional program:
- Exhibition space for models and prototypes made by student architects.
- Specialized Models and Prototypes Laboratory: workshop equipped with the instrumental resources for the creation of models and prototypes.
- Rooms for the design and production of models and prototypes: individual work spaces and for small groups of student architects.
- Atrium, connective (including staircase and elevator) and relationship spaces.
- Offices for the control and management of the specialist laboratory.
- Male / female toilets, complying with the legislation for accessibility to all.
- Storage and technical room.

Didactic setting
The teaching of the Laboratory will be based on the relationship between the typicality of formal / functional organizations and the uniqueness of physical contexts, proposing an idea of form as a result and not as an end. In the design exercise of a medium-sized building, the student will be confronted with the architectural manifestation of the institution, with the organization of public, semi-public, private spaces and functions, with the collective and individual dimension of living. The creative process will then be experienced through the dialectic between the peculiarities of the places and the principles that govern the formal genesis of architecture (the typological structure, the interaction between activities, the technical and constructive dimension).

Contents

The place as text
• The shape of the soil
• Quality of the physical environment: climate, exposure, lighting
• Spatial relationships and scale relationships: near/far/around; big/small
• Serial systems and emergencies; basic and specialized construction
• Public, semi-public, private spaces, proximity conditions

Living in space
• Functional program
• Elements of anthropometry and ergonomics
• Sensory experience and orientation: hearing, seeing, touching, measuring
• Distribution system and served/serving relationship
• Collective and individual spaces

The conformative process
• Ordering principles of space: central space and verticalism; longitudinal space and structure of the path; grid space and modularity; labyrinth and multi-directional space; grouped configuration of rooms; free configuration.
• Principles of settlement: continuity/discontinuity
• Tectonics and structural logic: subtract/root/suspend; wall/trilite; continuous/discontinuous; linear/point; introvert/extrovert; ground attack/development/crowning
• Order of movement: access/walk; travel/stay; limits/thresholds; slow/fast movement; relationship between path and goal
• Looking through architecture: looking/sighting; see/glimpse; light and spatial orientation; the window as a frame, as a joint, as a membrane and as a living space; stay under the light/go towards the light.

Core Documentation

Arnheim, R. (1885). Arte e percezione visiva, Feltrinelli
Ching F.D.K. (2015). Architettura: forma, spazio e ordine, Hoepli
Emery, N. (2007). L'architettura difficile. Filosofia del costruire, Christian Marinotti ed.
Focillon, H. (2002). Elogio della mano, Einaudi
Forty, A. (2004). Parole e edifici, Pendragon
Frampton, K. (1999). Tettonica e architettura, Skira
Pareyson, L. (1988). Estetica. Teoria della formatività, Bompiani
Vitta, M. (2008). Dell'abitare. Corpi spazi oggetti immagini, Einaudi

Reference Bibliography

G. Bachelard, La poetica dello spazio, Roma 1957 Le Corbusier, Verso un'architettura. Milano 1984 K. Lynch, L’Immagine della città. Venezia 1964 K. Lynch, Progettare la città, la qualità della forma urbana. Milano 1990 L. Mies van der Rohe, Gli scritti e le parole. Torino 2010 C. N. Schulz, Louis Kahn. Idea e Immagine. Roma 1980 R. Krier, Lo spazio della città. Stuttgart 1975 R. Koolhaas, Delirius New York. Milano 1978 A. Rossi, L’architettura della città. Milano 1978 C. Rowe, Collage city. Milano 1981 About Rome Roma moderna. Un secolo di storia urbanistica. 1870-1970. I. Insolera, Torino 1962 Immagini di Roma, di L. Quaroni, Bari 1975 Roma dal 1879 al 1990, Leonardo Benevolo, Bari 1992 L'Architettura di Roma capitale 1870-1970. G. Accasto, F.Vanna, R. Nicolini, Roma 1971 Guida ai quartieri romani INA Casa, a cura di M. Guccione e altri, Roma 2002 Roma, Guida all’architettura moderna 1909-2011, di Piero Ostilio Rossi, Bari 2012 About Testaccio district and the architecture of the Mattatoio Sezione dedicata al quartiere Testaccio nella Biblioteca di area delle arti – Architettura Bibliografia indicata al link dedicato sul sito dell’Archivio Urbano Testaccio http://aut.uniroma3.it/ Rai Radio 3 (Rai Play Radio) - Ex Mattatoio a Roma raccontato da Tommaso Giartosio https://www.raiplayradio.it/audio/2019/10/LE-MERAVIGLIE---Ex-Mattatoio-a-Roma-raccontato-da-Tommaso-Giartosio-f2cfde1f-9dab-4806-aa08-680246a6a20a.html Recommended manuals E. Neufert, “Enciclopedia pratica per progettare e costruire.” Hoepli, Milano 1996. Belz, Gosele, Hoffmann, Jenisch, “Atlante della muratura”, UTET, Torino 1998. Kind, Barkauskas, Polony, “Atlante del cemento”, UTET, Torino 1998. Schulits, Sobek, Habermann, “Atlante dell’Acciaio”, Torino 1999. Natter,Herzog, Volz, “Atlante del legno”, Torino 1998 Schittich,Staib, Balkow, “Atlante del vetro”, Torino 1999.

Type of delivery of the course

The design exercise can be carried out individually or teamwork. Didactic methods adopted in order to the expected learning outcomes: inspections, lectures, exercises, seminars, laboratory activities, group work, case analysis. Teaching support tools: use of telematic and IT supports, theoretical lessons in presentation form, collections of graphic documentation and thematic in-depth studies; access to the instrumentation of the plastics laboratory. In the event of an extension of the health emergency from COVID-19, all the provisions governing the methods of carrying out teaching activities and student evaluation will be implemented. In particular, the following methods will be applied: lectures and laboratory activities in online, synchronous and asynchronous mode, through the use of meeting platforms. Organization of teaching - Laboratory teaching: theoretical contributions and meta-design exercises in small groups of students. The goal is to educate the conformative process of architecture by building a conceptual plot in which to root the educational intention of stability, utility and aesthetic experience, in continuity with the disciplines encountered by the second-year student. - Inspection: visit of the project area to educate the student in critical and conscious observation of the place, aimed at grasping the characteristic features of the structural, phenomenal and sensorial reality as the matrix of the conformative process. The result of this experience will be the launch of a notebook that will accompany the student throughout the workshop. - Operational tools: the student will be educated in the use of drawing (ex tempore, technical drawings, figure/background ideograms), of photography and of the multi-scale model according to a double value; as an expression and verification of thought, an exercise in understanding, a tool for critical investigation within the design process and as a narrative, language, visual communication.

Attendance

Attendance at 75% of the course hours is mandatory.

Type of evaluation

The design exercise can be carried out individually or teamwork. Didactic methods adopted in order to the expected learning outcomes: inspections, lectures, exercises, seminars, laboratory activities, group work, case analysis. Teaching support tools: use of telematic and IT supports, theoretical lessons in presentation form, collections of graphic documentation and thematic in-depth studies; access to the instrumentation of the plastics laboratory. Attendance at 75% of the course hours is mandatory. In the event of an extension of the health emergency from COVID-19, all the provisions governing the methods of carrying out teaching activities and student evaluation will be implemented. In particular, the following methods will be applied: lectures and laboratory activities in online, synchronous and asynchronous mode, through the use of meeting platforms. Organization of teaching - Laboratory teaching: theoretical contributions and meta-design exercises in small groups of students. The goal is to educate the conformative process of architecture by building a conceptual plot in which to root the educational intention of stability, utility and aesthetic experience, in continuity with the disciplines encountered by the second-year student. - Inspection: visit of the project area to educate the student in critical and conscious observation of the place, aimed at grasping the characteristic features of the structural, phenomenal and sensorial reality as the matrix of the conformative process. The result of this experience will be the launch of a notebook that will accompany the student throughout the workshop. - Operational tools: the student will be educated in the use of drawing (ex tempore, technical drawings, figure/background ideograms), of photography and of the multi-scale model according to a double value; as an expression and verification of thought, an exercise in understanding, a tool for critical investigation within the design process and as a narrative, language, visual communication.