INFRASTRUCTURE ARCHITECTURE

Teacher: Stendardo L.

Teaching: Infrastructure architecture
Module (where present subdivision into modules): /

ECTS: 9
SSD: ICAR / 14
Hours of lessons: 60
Practice hours: 60

Educational objectives:
The aim of the course is to provide disciplinary elements, methods and techniques suitable for the complete mastery of design tools in relation to emerging themes in an era in which most engineering works consistently modify landscapes and cities with considerable indifference to the morphology of places and contexts. Complex engineering projects today represent central themes and of particular problematic relevance. The infrastructures and architectural artifacts connected to them, the systems related to the repair and maintenance of the environment are pre-eminent materials for the transformations of cities and the territory. The critical horizon underlying the course tends to initially embrace complex topics within a synthetic look to reduce them only later to their simple components. It is a point of view that finds reference examples in the nineteenth-century representations of the infrastructures of the territory that showed them as real landscape architectures and an interpretation of the project capable of producing quality in the architecture of the territory.

Contents:
The course analyzes the aesthetics of the territory and the built environment and the role of architectural design in the restoration of territorial and environmental degradation; the notion of “place” and the relationship between architecture and natural context, natural landscape and urban landscape are evaluated. The design experience will focus on issues related to this field of application.