Analysis and design of architectural ensembles with particular regard to social components and relationships of the urban context. Introduction on examination behavior in public spaces and relations between practices of use and design.
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One of the main objectives of the course is for students to deal, in the first instance, with an exercise of complex and layered reading of the territory and contexts of action at different scales; an analysis capable of interpreting and comparing with the elements belonging to three fundamental systems that characterize the contexts of contemporary cities: the natural systems (soil, water, vegetation, ...), the "evolutionary" system of anthropic and settlement modifications, and the infrastructural networks that guide and orient these modifications.
This exercise of critical interpretation of the specific characters of territory and of their interactions is the first step in addressing the challenges of contemporaneity developing urban planning strategies that concern the way we occupy and modify the space we inhabit, especially when it comes to collective spaces.
The design exercise, that is the subject of the course, focuses, therefore, on an area of the city of Rome in which the three highlighted systems (buildings, natural, infrastructural) present elements of particular interest: this is the territory although the Via Tiburtina and that, like a palimpsest, is composed of multiple stratifications. In the image of the present landscape, although with different intensities, these stratifications still manage to be read in a more or less defined way: the natural system of the Aniene riverbed and its tributaries, the anthropic development of residential and productive areas, and a dense infrastructural network connecting east-west. These systems intersect, combine or overlap, making themselves recognizable with different gradations all along the road. Their history and origin is ancient and traces a direction of movement that is linked to the shape of the land and still belongs to the progressive and uneven eastward expansion of the city of Rome. This expansion causes the intensity of the flows of people who move to and from those places every day, ensuring that this quadrant of the city still remains heavily attended.
The course is divided into two phases:
- the first develops and guides students through the process of critical analysis that will focus on an "assigned" sector of the via Tiburtina and its environs; the first phase concludes with the students' identification of a more defined "project area" that will allow them to approach with the project main themes of interest that emerged from the critical analysis.
- The second phase is the project phase. The main focus of the exercise will concern the design of a new public space: the theme may be declined in different directions that will have be coherent with the motivations that, in the previous phase, led to the choice of the "project area" (open space project and/or landscape arrangements and/or settlement of new devices of collective interest, ...); the general objective of the project will be to imagine transformations capable of triggering virtuous processes for the life and care of common spaces.
The project will have to confront, on the one hand, the theme of "complex uses" of public spaces, studying and questioning the social components and the overview of actors present, and on the other hand, the increasingly urgent issues of sustainability, with a focus on the themes of adaptation and mitigation of the effects of climate change in the urban environment.
Boano, C. (2020) Progetto Minore. Alla ricerca della minorità nel progetto urbanistico ed architettonico, LetteraVentidue, Siracusa
Corboz A. (1985) Il territorio come palinsesto, «Casabella» 516, pp. 22-27.
De Solà Morales, M. (a cura di) (1999), Progettare città/Designing Cities, «Quaderni di Lotus», 23.
Erbani M. (2022) Il territorio manoscritto. Strumenti per un’indagine territoriale lungo la via Tiburtina da Tivoli a Roma, Tesi di Dottorato in “Architettura: Innovazione e Patrimonio”, Roma Tre.
Pone M. (2019) Architetture devianti. Il potenziale infrastrutturale dell’architettura, Tesi di Dottorato in “Paesaggi della città contemporanea”, Roma Tre
Pone M. (2021) ‘Sul potenziale della situazione: architettura come infrastruttura’, in Op.Cit Selezione della critica d’arte contemporanea, 170.
Rykwert J., Learning from the Street, «Lotus», 158, 2015, pp. 102-113.
Salat, S. (2011) Cities and forms: On sustainable urbanism. Editeurs des Sciences et des Arts Hermann
Programme
The course consists of a project exercise, at the scale of the urban project, which proposes a special focus on public space and its “equipments."One of the main objectives of the course is for students to deal, in the first instance, with an exercise of complex and layered reading of the territory and contexts of action at different scales; an analysis capable of interpreting and comparing with the elements belonging to three fundamental systems that characterize the contexts of contemporary cities: the natural systems (soil, water, vegetation, ...), the "evolutionary" system of anthropic and settlement modifications, and the infrastructural networks that guide and orient these modifications.
This exercise of critical interpretation of the specific characters of territory and of their interactions is the first step in addressing the challenges of contemporaneity developing urban planning strategies that concern the way we occupy and modify the space we inhabit, especially when it comes to collective spaces.
The design exercise, that is the subject of the course, focuses, therefore, on an area of the city of Rome in which the three highlighted systems (buildings, natural, infrastructural) present elements of particular interest: this is the territory although the Via Tiburtina and that, like a palimpsest, is composed of multiple stratifications. In the image of the present landscape, although with different intensities, these stratifications still manage to be read in a more or less defined way: the natural system of the Aniene riverbed and its tributaries, the anthropic development of residential and productive areas, and a dense infrastructural network connecting east-west. These systems intersect, combine or overlap, making themselves recognizable with different gradations all along the road. Their history and origin is ancient and traces a direction of movement that is linked to the shape of the land and still belongs to the progressive and uneven eastward expansion of the city of Rome. This expansion causes the intensity of the flows of people who move to and from those places every day, ensuring that this quadrant of the city still remains heavily attended.
The course is divided into two phases:
- the first develops and guides students through the process of critical analysis that will focus on an "assigned" sector of the via Tiburtina and its environs; the first phase concludes with the students' identification of a more defined "project area" that will allow them to approach with the project main themes of interest that emerged from the critical analysis.
- The second phase is the project phase. The main focus of the exercise will concern the design of a new public space: the theme may be declined in different directions that will have be coherent with the motivations that, in the previous phase, led to the choice of the "project area" (open space project and/or landscape arrangements and/or settlement of new devices of collective interest, ...); the general objective of the project will be to imagine transformations capable of triggering virtuous processes for the life and care of common spaces.
The project will have to confront, on the one hand, the theme of "complex uses" of public spaces, studying and questioning the social components and the overview of actors present, and on the other hand, the increasingly urgent issues of sustainability, with a focus on the themes of adaptation and mitigation of the effects of climate change in the urban environment.
Core Documentation
Bjur H., Santillo Frizell B., Via Tiburtina: space, movement and artifacts in the urban landscape, Svenska institutet i Rom, Roma 2009.Boano, C. (2020) Progetto Minore. Alla ricerca della minorità nel progetto urbanistico ed architettonico, LetteraVentidue, Siracusa
Corboz A. (1985) Il territorio come palinsesto, «Casabella» 516, pp. 22-27.
De Solà Morales, M. (a cura di) (1999), Progettare città/Designing Cities, «Quaderni di Lotus», 23.
Erbani M. (2022) Il territorio manoscritto. Strumenti per un’indagine territoriale lungo la via Tiburtina da Tivoli a Roma, Tesi di Dottorato in “Architettura: Innovazione e Patrimonio”, Roma Tre.
Pone M. (2019) Architetture devianti. Il potenziale infrastrutturale dell’architettura, Tesi di Dottorato in “Paesaggi della città contemporanea”, Roma Tre
Pone M. (2021) ‘Sul potenziale della situazione: architettura come infrastruttura’, in Op.Cit Selezione della critica d’arte contemporanea, 170.
Rykwert J., Learning from the Street, «Lotus», 158, 2015, pp. 102-113.
Salat, S. (2011) Cities and forms: On sustainable urbanism. Editeurs des Sciences et des Arts Hermann
Reference Bibliography
Appleyard D., Lynch K., Myer J. R. (1964) The view from the road, MIT press, Cambridge MA D’Ammando A., Morawski T., Velotti S. (2023) Urban Forms of Life. Per una critica delle forme di vita urbana. Quodlibet Studio, Macerata De Matteis, A. (2018). Architettura e realtà. Crisi e nuovi orizzonti del progetto contemporaneo, Quodlibet Studio, Recanati Farinelli F. (2003) Geografia. Un’introduzione ai modelli del mondo, Einaudi, Torino. Insolera I. (2011) Roma moderna. Da Napoleone I al XXI secolo, Einaudi, Torino Latour B. (2022) Dove sono? Lezioni di filosofia per un pianeta che cambia, Einaudi, Torino Lefebvre H. (2018) La produzione dello spazio, Pgreco, Milano Mezzadra, S. (2016) Terra e Confini, metamorfosi di un solco, Manifestolibri, Castel San Pietro Romano (RM) Petti, A. (2007) Arcipelaghi e enclave. Architettura dell’ordinamento spaziale contemporaneo, Mondadori, Milano Pone M. (2022) L’esperienza della soglia: progetto minore per luoghi-di-non, in Op.Cit Selezione della critica d’arte contemporanea, 173 Pone M. (2019) Paesaggi dell’Antropocene, in Op.Cit Selezione della critica d’arte contemporanea, 165 Secchi, B. (2013) La città dei ricchi e la città dei poveri, Laterza, Roma-Bari Sennett, R. (2012) Insieme. Rituali, piaceri, politiche della collaborazione, Feltrinelli, Milano Sennett, R. (2018) Costruire e abitare. Etica per la città, Feltrinelli, Milano Spirito, F. (1993) I “termini” del progetto urbano. Selezione antologica dell’esperienza italiana 1919-1991, Officina Edizioni, Roma Turpin, E. (2013). Architecture in the Anthropocene encounters among design, deep time, science, and philosophy. Ann Arbor: Michigan PublishingType of delivery of the course
The course is divided into 2 phases: in the first students develop the critical analysis work, in the second the project. The first phase lasts about 6 weeks (ends in the second half of November) and involves frontal didactic activities, seminars with expert guests, site visits and workshop activities; it ends with the production of synthetic and interpretative analysis outputs (drawings, models, digital outputs, ...) and the identification of the "project area”; The second phase lasts about 8 weeks and involves mainly laboratory activities and integrations of frontal teaching; in this second phase, in the first half of January, an intermediate assignment is planned, which will review and evaluate the first phase of work and the general project approach. The work continues with the definition and investigation of the aspects that specifically characterize the projects developed by the students up to the date of the final exam. Students carry out the work in groups of 2-3 people. Students will be provided with: basic cartographies and drawings in different formats (dwg, illustrator, shapefile), bibliographic references and iconographic sources.Attendance
Attendance of the course is compulsory; only those who have produced the required analysis papers in the first phase of the course and have made the intermediate assignment scheduled in the second phase can take the exam.Type of evaluation
The examination is based on the exhibition of the analysis works developed in the first stage and the project produced in the second stage. The exam takes place in public form, and the groups' project will be discussed collectively.