Programme

The Workshop focuses on a medium-sized architectural theme in the area of the former Slaughterhouse of Testaccio. The students (working individually or in groups of two) will be involved in the design of a building integrating educational and cultural services, supporting the Department's activities and in connection with the life of the neighborhood. The central idea is the articulation of different uses (study and teaching, meetings, temporary exhibitions, conferences and small events, reception and restoration) within a facility of medium complexity. The relationship with the city will be sought through work on the public space, which will be brought inside the building, in an idea of continuity of the organization of space. With this in mind, the project declines places for collective experiences and environments reserved for individual activities, with particular attention to transition spaces, understood as places for relationships.
The students will thus have the opportunity to put into practice with the project the experiences acquired in terms of the measurement and configuration of space, the identification of formal structures and their expression through construction choices, and the search for the most appropriate character to define the theme. The objective is to root the geometric-abstract dimension of the project in the specific identity of the place, with its identity and history.

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
K. Frampton, Tettonica e architettura. Poetica della forma architettonica nel XIX e XX secolo, Skira, Milano 1999
R. Moneo, Inquietudine teorica e strategia progettuale nell’opera di otto architetti contemporanei, Electa, Milano 2005
C. St John Wilson, Architectural Reflections. Studies in the Philosophy and Practice of Architecture, Manchester University Press, 2000
F. Venezia, Francesco Venezia: le idee e le occasioni, Electa, Milano 2006

Reference Bibliography

A. Loos, Parole nel vuoto, Adelphi, Milano 1972 Le Corbusier, Verso una architettura, (a cura di P. Cerri e P. Nicolin), Longanesi, Milano 1984 F. Távora, Dell'organizzazione dello spazio, nottetempo, Milano, 2021 J. Utzon, Idee di architettura. Scritti e conversazioni, Christian Marinotti, Milano 2011

Type of delivery of the course

The workshop is a place of work and experimentation: in the classroom, the models necessary for the verification of ideas are designed and constructed, and the choices are compared by discussing them with the teacher in charge and the holders of the didactic supports. The cognitive path is articulated through the acquisition of the critical, theoretical and practical tools necessary for project design. During the semester, theoretical lectures are alternated, focusing on individual design aspects, with the practical work and exercises on specific topics, with the aim of advancing the students' skills in terms of composition and the representation/presentation of their ideas. Drawing and model building will be fundamental tools for analysis and design from the scale of the urban project to the definition of architectural choices. Periodic moments of collective critique and seminars to verify the progress of the work are foreseen.

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

The evaluation will be carried out through in itinere verifications and a concluding seminar, in which the student will demonstrate the knowledge acquired, presenting the work with drawings and models, accompanied by a short analytical-critical text. This will also include documentation of the process that led to the final project, through a selection of study drawings, photos of the models, sketches, references, notes. The assessment will take into account participation in the classroom activities, the degree of autonomy in managing the design process, the ability to react critically to the indications offered by the lecturers, as well as the completeness of the design outcome, its correspondence to the themes dealt with and the quality of its presentation.

Programme

The class proposes the Design of a building hosting integrated Laboratories for the Department of Architecture within the complex of the former slaughterhouse of Rome (Mattatoio), today transformed as urban Campus hosting aside the University public museums and cultural institutions targeted mostly at young people and open to the lively neighborhood of Testaccio. The building is proposed as replacement of the current Pavilion n.14, with the possibility to fully substitute it or alternatively to preserve and integrate some parts. In a second step, the design is enlarged to the open area that mediates between the complex and the city, proposing to the students to face the topics of the open space design and of the solution of a longstanding urban marginal area by fully exploiting its strong potential while preserving at the same time the privacy of the Campus.

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 is based on the alternance of Lectures and Design Revisions, both available also online. The Design Development is guided through phases. It starts with a compact program for laboratories to be hosted within the perimeter today occupied by Pavilion n.14, then introduces structural concepts and finalizes a first design as a pavilion. In the second phase the program is extended with accessory functions to the open area that faces the pavilion and mediates between the whole complex and the city. The whole process happens with continuous production of maquettes, that allow a constant verification of the architectural impact of every choice, from layout to structure, to proportional, volumetric and morphological relationship with the context.

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

The Studio offers students the tools to tackle a medium-sized and complex project, paying particular attention to relations with the urban context and the public dimension of architecture. The theme consists in the design of a Testaccio Civic Center, which involves the combination of spaces intended for temporary exhibitions, a small museum in the neighborhood, reception and information spaces, rooms for conferences, shows and projections, a study center with a library for the Testaccio Urban Archive, offices and services.

Core Documentation

K. Frampton, Tettonica e architettura. Poetica della forma architettonica nel XIX e XX secolo, Skira, Milano 1999
R. Moneo, Inquietudine teorica e strategia progettuale nell’opera di otto architetti contemporanei, Electa, Milano 2005
F. Venezia, Che cos’è l’architettura. Lezioni, conferenze e un intervento, Electa, Milano 2011

Reference Bibliography

L. Quaroni, Immagine di Roma, Laterza, Bari 1969 C. Cocchioni, M. De Grassi, La casa popolare a Roma. Trent’anni di attività dell’I.C.P., Kappa, Roma 1984 Luigi Caruso (a cura di), Testaccio. Progetto per la trasformazione di un quartiere, ROMACENTRO. Pubblicazioni dell’Assessorato per gli Interventi sul Centro Storico del Comune di Roma, Palombi, Roma 1986 F. Cellini, Manualetto. Norme tecniche, costruttive e grafiche per lo svolgimento di una esercitazione sul tema della casa unifamiliare, Città Studi, Milano 1991 P. Cummings Loud, Louis I. Kahn. I musei, Electa, Milano 1997 G. Longobardi, Musei. Manuale di progettazione, Mancosu, Roma 2007 ARCHIVIO URBANO TESTACCIO: http://aut.uniroma3.it/

Type of delivery of the course

The Studio takes place in the classroom, alternating moments of discussion of the project with functional lessons to guide the design process. The lessons will focus on reading the urban context and on issues related to the design of the spaces required by the Testaccio Civic Center program (museum, library, conference rooms, etc.), with particular attention to the setting of the structural system and the management of light.

Attendance

Attendance is compulsory for 75% of the lesson hours

Type of evaluation

The Studio evaluation will take into account the participation in the activities carried out in the classroom, the degree of autonomy in the management of the design process, the ability to react critically to the suggestions offered by the teachers, the quality and degree of development of the project, the quality of its presentation through drawings, models and interview.