Programme

The applicative part of the course introduces the student to the design of a single-family residential architectural organism inserted within a lot of assigned dimensions. This lot, whose altimetric trend registers a slight slope, is located on the shores of a lake for which a specific geographical location is not provided but only some reference images.
A detailed functional program is provided, the client: the designer, painter, teacher Bruno Munari, whose multifaceted aesthetic contribution and applied thought within the history of 20th century art are illustrated.

Core Documentation

B. Zevi, Saper vedere l'architettura. Saggio sull'interpretazione spaziale dell'architettura, Torino, Einaudi, 1953.

L. Quaroni, Progettare un edificio. Otto lezioni di Architettura, Milano, Mazzotta, 1977.
P.O. Rossi, La costruzione del progetto architettonico, Bari, Editori Laterza, 1996.
H.Hertzberger, Lezioni di architettura, Bari, Editori Laterza, 1996.
L. Altarelli et al., Forme della composizione, Roma, Kappa, 1997.
G. Ponti, Amate l’architettura, Genova, Vitali e Ghianda, 1957, (ristampa in commercio: Milano, CUSL, 2004).

M. Bonaiti, Architettura è. Louis I. Kahn, gli scritti, Electa, Milano, 2002
R. Moneo, Inquietudine teorica e strategia progettuale nell’opera di otto architetti contemporanei, Electa,2005.
B. Munari, Fantasia, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1977.
B. Munari, Da cosa nasce cosa, Laterza, Bari-Roma, 1981.
M. Meneguzzo, Bruno Munari, Electa, Milano, 1986
M. Meneguzzo, Munari ’50. La bellezza come funzione, Corraini, Mantova, 1991.

Reference Bibliography

B. Zevi, Saper vedere l'architettura. Saggio sull'interpretazione spaziale dell'architettura, Torino, Einaudi, 1953. L. Quaroni, Progettare un edificio. Otto lezioni di Architettura, Milano, Mazzotta, 1977. P.O. Rossi, La costruzione del progetto architettonico, Bari, Editori Laterza, 1996. H.Hertzberger, Lezioni di architettura, Bari, Editori Laterza, 1996. L. Altarelli et al., Forme della composizione, Roma, Kappa, 1997. G. Ponti, Amate l’architettura, Genova, Vitali e Ghianda, 1957, (ristampa in commercio: Milano, CUSL, 2004). M. Bonaiti, Architettura è. Louis I. Kahn, gli scritti, Electa, Milano, 2002 R. Moneo, Inquietudine teorica e strategia progettuale nell’opera di otto architetti contemporanei, Electa,2005. B. Munari, Fantasia, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1977. B. Munari, Da cosa nasce cosa, Laterza, Bari-Roma, 1981. M. Meneguzzo, Bruno Munari, Electa, Milano, 1986 M. Meneguzzo, Munari ’50. La bellezza come funzione, Corraini, Mantova, 1991.

Type of delivery of the course

The second part of the course includes introductory lessons on the theme of the design of a residential architectural organism; illustrative lessons of notable examples of single-family residential architectures of modern and contemporary production; lessons on design topics related to the assigned theme. These lessons are combined with the design work carried out in the classroom through the development of three-dimensional models and drawings at the appropriate scales. Periodic collective reviews of the works mark the progress of the project, refining the individual proposals in view of the final exam.

Type of evaluation

The evaluation will refer to the quality and technical, spatial, distributive and aesthetic coherence of the project's architectural organism, both in its internal parts and in its connections with the external proximity spaces. It will also be connected to the ability of the individual candidates to illustrate the whole of their annual work (both the introductory part and the application part) and to interact with the solicitations of the commission.

Programme

This is the first part of an annual architectural design laboratory, in this first semester with 6 credits, 4 of architectural and urban composition and design and 2 of structures.

In the first half of the year, the commitment is 50 hours, dedicated to lectures, architectural visits and practical exercises of model building, drawing and design.
The course contents are proposed and verified through lectures, exercises, educational visits, individual and collective reviews. The final exam mark takes into account all the activities carried out by the student during the course, the quality of the exercises is obviously crucial in assigning the mark itself. All processing of the work is done by hand, the use of the C.A.d.

Exercises

1-Topography (Individual)
Exercise with level curves to be played by model, is assigned a building volume of date size that must be housed on the ground by creating a digging, or a podium by land reconditioning and making an access path. Scale 1: 250
Area of ​​intervention 75m x 50m, altitude 10m, making curves with cardboard from 1mm (4 curves per 1 meter of altitude) serve 40 curves to absorb the difference in height.
The volume to be inserted is a generic residential volume of 5 m for 10 m, which can be inserted as shown in the examples shown, inserting it into the ground, creating a podium, lifting it on a pilot,
or by adopting hybrid solutions.

2-Redesign and reconstruction of an architecture (group 3 people)
Analysis, technical drawing and realization of a scale model 1: 100 or 1:50 of the following residences:

Le Corbusier, Maison Guiette, Anversa, Belgio, 1927

Le Corbusier, Ville Savoye, Poissy, Francia, 1928 - 1931

Alvar Aalto Casa sperimentale a Muuratsalo, Finlandia, 1952-1954

Alberto Campo Baeza, Casa Turegano, Madrid, Spagna, 1988

Louis Kahn, Fisher House, Hatboro, Pennsylvania, USA, 1960-1967

3-Building System (Individual)
Project of a small hut, up to 20 sqm, everywhere students want, in a place well known to the designer, using a single constructive system between:
reinforced concrete, brick, stone, wood, steel. Scale model 1:50, plants and sections in scale 1:50

4-Sketches and relief from true anthropometric (individual during visits)
Draw on a drawing book A5 sketches of travel, prospects, plants, sections, portraits, and assonometries, paying particular attention to the proportions of the spaces and architectural elements represented. Booklet to be delivered.

Core Documentation

Testi:

LE CORBUSIER, Verso un architettura, Milano 1973

F. VENEZIA, Che cos’è l’architettura, Milano 2011

J. UTZON, Idee di architettura. Scritti e conversazioni, Milano 2011

Manuali:

A. Desplazes, Constructing architecture, materials processes structures, a handbook, Basel, 2005

F. Cellini, Manualetto, Norme tecniche, costruttive e grafiche per lo svolgimento di una esercitazione progettuale sul tema della casa unifamiliare, Palermo, 1991

Reference Bibliography

GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY L. BENEVOLO, Introduzione all’architettura, Bari 1960 G. FANELLI, R. GARGIANI, Il principio del rivestimento, Bari 1994 K. FRAMPTON, Tettonica e architettura, Milano 2000 H. HERTZBERGER, Lessons for students in architecture, Rotterdam 1991 LE CORBUSIER, Une petite maison, Reggio Calabria 2004 M. MANIERI ELIA, Architettura e mentalità dal Classico al Neoclassico, Bari 1989 L. MIES VAN DER ROHE, Gli scritti e le parole, Milano 2010 L. QUARONI, Progettare un edificio, otto lezioni di architettura, Roma 1977 B. RUDOFSKY, Architecture without architects, New York 1964 P. ZUMTHOR, Pensare Architettura, Milano 2003 P. ZUMTHOR, Atmosfere. Ambienti architettonici. Le cose che ci circondano, Milano 2007 Handbooks E. Neufert, Enciclopedia pratica per progettare e costruire, A.Zimmermann, Constructing landscape : materials, techniques, structural components Basel, 2011

Type of delivery of the course

The laboratory takes place through lectures, exercises, collective and individual work reviews. In addition to the tenured professor, there are experts in the subject and doctoral students to follow the students' activities.

Attendance

Attendance is compulsory for 75% of the lessons

Type of evaluation

The work of the first semester of the laboratory is evaluated through the results of the exercises, during which the teachers analyze even if the theoretical contents presented to the students have been learned.

Programme

A House in the Roman Countryside.

The second part of the course will be dedicated to the design of a house. The essential features are its single-family purpose, therefore of small dimensions, and its location: the Roman countryside. The specification of the context that will be useful to inspire the design theme will be the subject of specific lessons in which we will address the essential characteristics of the location.

The design theme consists of creating a small residential structure. This structure should be conceived considering innovative concepts of living, advanced spatial and construction solutions, taking into account the intended use, as contemporary society is increasingly oriented towards new professions, new forms of cohabitation, and new ways of dwelling.

Particular attention will be given to the planimetric control of the project, the section, and the volumetrics, as well as the relationships that the house should establish with its surroundings, both directly and indirectly. Nature will be interpreted as a place of origin and could be seen as a new 'Arcadia,' an ideal place for contemplation or the development of new human activities, a place of gathering and harmony in a hypothetical 'return' to ancient rituals.

Core Documentation

James G. Frazer, Il ramo d’oro, Newton Compton 2009
George Leonard Hersey, Il significato nascosto dell'architettura classica, Editore: Bruno Mondadori, Anno edizione: 2001
F.Purini, Esercizi di composizione, Editore: Libreria, Melfi Anno edizione: 1996
F.Purini, Comporre l'architettura, Editore: Laterza Bari, Anno edizione: 2000
Colin Rowe, La matematica della villa ideale, Editore: Zanichelli, Anno edizione: 1992
E.H. Gombrich, La storia dell'arte, Editore: Phaidon, Anno edizione: 2008
Ulteriore bibliografia verrà fornita allo studente durante l’anno accademico.
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Reference Bibliography

James G. Frazer, Il ramo d’oro, Newton Compton 2009 George Leonard Hersey, Il significato nascosto dell'architettura classica, Editore: Bruno Mondadori, Anno edizione: 2001 F.Purini, Esercizi di composizione, Editore: Libreria, Melfi Anno edizione: 1996 F.Purini, Comporre l'architettura, Editore: Laterza Bari, Anno edizione: 2000 Colin Rowe, La matematica della villa ideale, Editore: Zanichelli, Anno edizione: 1992 E.H. Gombrich, La storia dell'arte, Editore: Phaidon, Anno edizione: 2008 Ulteriore bibliografia verrà fornita allo studente durante l’anno accademico. Instagram francesco_menegatti_students

Attendance

Attendance is mandatory for 75% of the course

Type of evaluation

The course will be conducted in the form of a workshop. Face-to-face lectures will be held in person, as well as exercises, some of which will be carried out in the classroom and then, if necessary, completed at home. The exercises are designed to delve deeper into the topics covered in the lectures and will include both graphical work involving drawing and the construction of models. There will be a significant emphasis on group discussions of the work produced through collective discussions. At the same time, students will directly engage in the design exercise, developing the building according to the theme proposed by the course in appropriate scales. Additional information about the format and techniques of the work will be provided during the course. Students will be given a series of project areas that can be relocated to various real contexts, such as archaeological, altimetric, wooded, riverine, and a neutral context without specific references. The student will freely choose one of these contexts that they find most suitable for developing their personal thoughts on the annual theme. Travel Journal - Students should have a travel journal, a notebook with blank or squared pages, to draw what they imagine, redraw what they see, and jot down their reflections throughout the course. Necessary Tools For the exercises in the first part of the workshop, you will need a high-weight, smooth A3 sketchbook (Fabriano A6), various hardness pencils, and technical drawing tools. Various thicknesses of fountain pens will be used. It is necessary to have digital drawing tools from the start. The use of a computer and software suitable for electronic drawing is expected from the early stages of the workshop. The graphic elaboration of the final exam sheets will be in digital format, with a minimum of ten sheets. These sheets will represent the project proposed by the workshop according to appropriate scales and digital perspective representations.