Teacher: Bruni F.

Teaching: Architecture and architectural composition II
Module (where present subdivision into modules): Architecture and architectural composition II + Laboratory of Architecture and architectural composition II

CFU: 9 + 3
SSD: ICAR / 14
Hours of lessons: 60
Practice hours: 60
Workshop hours: 60

Educational objectives:
The course aims to acquire and develop knowledge relating to the theory, technique and tools of architectural design in the encounter between the urban scale and the building scale. Through the critical analysis of significant cases, it is intended to obtain an in-depth cognitive framework of the fundamental issues of the urban project both from a theoretical point of view and from that of the practical use of setting and verification tools. Development of design skills on the underlying themes, in the contemporary city, by the relationship between architectural artefacts and public spaces open to them connected to the different scales of intervention.

Contents:
Relationship between plan and project in the processes of modification of the contemporary city. The temporal dimension of the urban project. Complete parts, unfinished parts, permanence and transformations, morphological structure and functional organization. The relationship between the different scales of the urban project. The variable relationship between urban morphology and building typology. The dialectic between the basic fabric and emergencies. Identity and project of collective places. Monuments, nodes and minor spaces. The most emblematic experiences of design and / or construction of European residential districts in the twentieth century will be retraced, the themes of the ‘completion’ of the city and its parts through examples made in Europe in the last twenty-five years, and related themes and issues, even today, in the urban suburbs. Particular emphasis will be placed on the definition of a critical ‘glossary’ of the ‘terms’ of the urban project. To develop in the students the idea of ​​architecture understood as an environmental event, attention will be drawn to the problem of the relationships that the building establishes with the context in which it is located. The concepts of building typology and urban morphology and their relationships will be at the center of the reflection and design experimentation will concern both individual architectural artifacts and the open spaces connected to them, developing a complete design experience at the different scales of intervention. The scales of the project will range from 1: 1000 to 1:50.