We must prepare for our uncertain world and expect the unexpected, which is the opposite of resigning oneself to generalized skepticism. (…) A thought that isolates and separates should be replaced by a thought that distinguishes and unites. A disjunctive and reductive thought should be replaced by a thought of the complex in the original sense of the term “complexus”: what is woven together. (…) A thought that connects and faces uncertainty. The thought that interconnects will replace unilateral and unidirectional causality with a circular and multi-referential causality, will mitigate the rigidity of classical logic with a dialogic capable of conceiving at the same time complementary and antagonistic notions, will complete the knowledge of the integration of the parts into a whole with the recognition of the integration of the whole within the parts.
TARGETS
The five-year single-cycle Master’s Degree Course in Building Engineering-Architecture aims to train a professional profile of Engineer-Architect characterized by cultural and historical-critical awareness, by the mastery of design tools and techniques, by the knowledge of constructive and executive solutions. and management of works, with high skills in the fields of architecture, construction, and urban planning. The heritage of cultural and technical knowledge of the Construction Engineer-Architect is acquired in an organic didactic path, developed over five years without interruption, until the achievement of the master’s degree.
The course is limited in number and provides access to a maximum of one hundred students.
The teaching activity takes place at the Polytechnic School and Basic Sciences complex of the Federico II University of Naples. In addition to frontal teaching, theoretical and practical exercises are carried out as well as design workshops which favour teamwork and constant teacher-student interaction, also encouraged through tutoring activities. The training course involves the acquisition of three hundred University Educational Credits (CFU).
ORGANISATION
The Degree Course in Building Engineering-Architecture is structured according to the provisions and on the basis of the tasks set out in the University Statute. In particular, the activities of the Degree Course Council are coordinated by the Coordinator of the Didactic Commission (the name that replaced that of President, previously in force), with the support of the Didactic Commission and the Orientation Contact.
The role, duties and functions of both the Coordinator of the Commission for Didactic Coordination and the Commission for the Coordination of Didactics are established by the University Regulations for the regulation of the tasks and operating methods of the departmental bodies and the Election of the Director. of Department
INSEGNAMENTI
I Year
Teacher: Mallozzi L.
Course: Mathematical analysis I
Module (where present subdivision into modules): /
ECTS: 6
SSD: MAT 03/A
Hours of lessons: 48
Practice hours: /
Educational objectives:
Provide the fundamental concepts, in view of the applications, relating to infinitesimal, differential and integral calculus for real functions of a real variable; acquire adequate logical formalization skills and conscious operational skills.
Contents:
The sector is interested in teaching – training and research activities in the field of Mathematical Analysis in all its articulations (harmonic, convex, functional, linear and non-linear); differential equations, ordinary and partial derivatives, the calculus of variations and the theory of functions; of measure theory. The teaching skills of this sector also concern all the institutional aspects of basic mathematics which refer to the macro-sector 01A Mathematics.
Teacher: Pascariello M.
Teaching: Drawing and geometry of forms
Module (where present subdivision into modules): Architectural Design I + Architecture Design Laboratory I
CFU: 9 + 3
SSD: CEAR10/A
Hours of lessons: 80
Practice hours: 40
Workshop hours: 60
Educational objectives:
The aim of the course is to coach students in the visual identification of both plane and solid shapes and figures, in the assignment of their correct naming and classification, in order to make them independent in the use and choice of the Representation Methods necessary for the graphic reproduction of the shapes and figures observed and/or described.
Contents:
Drawing as a basic language that possesses common rules and codes capable of bringing different disciplines together starts from the recognition and learning of the relationship between visual perception and graphic language. It is deepened through the Fundamentals of Projective Geometry and the introduction to Descriptive Geometry, i.e. the Methods of Representation (Monge’s Method, axonometric projection and perspective). It is then applied through the representation of shapes (curves and surfaces; arcs and vaults). Applications include drawing for architectural design and the drawing of comparative graphical panels.
Teacher: Lucignano P.
Teaching: General physics
Module (where present subdivision into modules): /
ECTS: 6
SSD: PHYS01/A
Hours of lessons: 60
Practice hours: 20
Educational objectives:
The course aims to provide students with basic notions of classical mechanics and thermodynamics.
Contents:
The goal is to build the skills needed to understand basic physical processes.
Teacher: Durante N.
Teaching: Geometry
Module (where present subdivision into modules): /
ECTS: 6
SSD: MATH02/B
Hours of lessons: 60
Practice hours: 20
Educational objectives:
You will have to acquire the basic tools of linear algebra and geometry. The objective of this teaching is to accustom the student to tackling formal problems, using adequate tools and correct language, and to solve specific algebraic and geometric problems, with the classic tools of linear algebra.
Contents:
Teaching skills concern all teaching relating to basic mathematics contents.
Teacher: Buccaro A. + Capano F.
: Buccaro A. + Villari S.
Course: History of architecture I
Module (where present, subdivision into modules): History of Architecture I + Laboratory of History of Architecture I
CFU: 9 + 3
SSD: CEAR-11/A
Hours of lessons: 80
Practice hours: 40
Workshop hours: 60
Educational objectives:
The teaching aims at a useful integration of historical disciplines within the course of studies, analyzing the evolution of the architectural debate in different times and places in relation to the main themes, works and protagonists that animated it. The knowledge and ability to understand history must be considered in close relationship with the topics addressed in the architectural and urban design, urban planning and restoration courses. Through lectures, seminars, guided tours, the student knows the history and theory of architecture and understands its relationship with the architectural project in different times and places. The student will develop critical skills and knowledge of architectural and urban phenomena in relation to the currents and protagonists of European architecture in the modern age. The student acquires a satisfactory mastery of the methods of historiographical analysis applied to architecture and the city.
Contents:
The course provides the critical and methodological tools for the knowledge of the history of Western architecture and of the European city in the modern and early contemporary ages, with reference to the main historiographical categories and architectural theories that have characterized the debate in Europe modern, outlining its peculiar aspects in terms of places, works and authors. Starting from introductory aspects concerning the ancient and medieval ages, we will move on to a more in-depth discussion of linguistic and theoretical phenomena, authors and works with reference to the European debate from the Renaissance to Neoclassicism. The historiographical analysis will be addressed at both the architectural and urban scale, using the bibliographic and iconographic tools available for the knowledge of paradigmatic cases of places and testimonies of the various eras. The Naples case will be adopted as an in-depth study, offering students, through inspections and seminars, the opportunity to learn the historical and cultural events that have characterized the relationship between architectural emergencies, building fabric and urban layout over the centuries.
Teacher: Caputo D.
Teaching: Materials technology and applied chemistry
Module (where present subdivision into modules): /
ECTS: 6
SSD: IMAT-01/A
Hours of lessons: 60
Practice hours: 20
Educational objectives:
The course aims to provide students of Building Engineering-Architecture with fundamental knowledge about the structure, microstructure, properties and production processes of the main materials of interest for the construction sector, both structural and functional. This knowledge is a prerequisite for their correct selection and use.
Contents:
The course aims to provide students with the tools for understanding the triangular relationships between structure, microstructure and macroscopic properties of materials and knowledge of production technologies and the degradation, restoration and conservation of construction materials.
Educational objectives:
Possession of the basics of correct reading and interpretation of scientific literature in the relevant fields and acquisition of a technical vocabulary in English.
II Year
Teacher: Stendardo L.
Teaching: Architecture and architectural composition I
Module (where present subdivision into modules): Architecture and architectural composition I + Laboratory of
Architecture and architectural composition I
CFU: 9 + 3
SSD: CEAR-09/A
Hours of lessons: 60
Practice hours: 60
Workshop hours: 60
Educational objectives:
Architecture & Architectural Design Studio 1 is the first educational step into the field of Architectural and Urban Design. Thus, this course and studio is meant to teach the theoretical and methodologic fundamentals of this discipline where knowledge and know-how are closely interacting. This course’s educational goals envisage the knowledge and the development of the disciplinary fundamentals with respect to the theories, the techniques and the tools of architectural design as applied to elementary buildings.
Contents:
In the disciplinary scientific group [converges] Architectural and Urban Composition […] with the scientific contents of the architectural project […] in their theoretical-critical, methodological, ideational, applicative and experimental articulation. The group recognises the contemporary dimension of architectural, urban and landscape contexts as a material and immaterial, complex and stratified reality. The group […] identifies in the project the inter-scalar and inter-disciplinary synthesis between its own knowledge and the humanistic and technical-scientific knowledge that contribute to the knowledge, interpretation and modification of the physical and social environment. The group assumes the architectural project as an intellectual and scientific product and process, an expression of the action of formal, technical and spatial experimentation, and as a peculiar tool for the training of designers […].
The […] training activity concerns the theoretical, critical and technical dimension of the design of architectural and urban spaces, buildings, places, landscapes and of the form of their evolution in the anthropic and natural components; it identifies the ways of intervention for the transformation of contexts and heritage; it defines the quality of the architectural project on new and existing buildings pursuing technical, formal and relational appropriateness in the tension towards beauty, experimenting with innovative principles of sustainability and compliance, in relation to the environment, economy and society.
Architectural and Urban Composition deals with: the form and space of the building and the city in relation to the needs of man, society and the environment; compositional-designing aspects related to expressive codes and techniques of ex-novo intervention and transformation of the historical and contemporary built heritage; it defines the formal, constructive and settlement characteristics and logics of the architectural figure, in full and empty spaces, in relation to the urban and natural context, to infrastructures and to the territory.
Architectural and Urban Design is an inter-scalar discipline that works on the ways of constructing the form of architecture, the city and the territory, in relation to the contemporary needs of man, society and the environment; it investigates expressive codes and intervention techniques, relating to other disciplines, from the human sciences to the technical-scientific ones.
The scientific-disciplinary contents are divided into: methodological aspects concerning the theory of design; analytical-instrumental aspects relating to the study of the distributive, typological, morphological, spatial and linguistic characteristics of architecture and the city; compositional-designing aspects, concerning the formal and settlement logic of the elements and parts in relation to the architectural figure and places, the urban and natural context, the infrastructures and the territory. The contents refer to the design of ex-novo interventions and transformation of historical and contemporary heritage, in their various constructive and technical aspects. The didactics exercises the project as experimentation and verification of the theoretical-methodological reflection on architecture and the city.
Teacher: Giannetti F.
Course: Mathematical analysis II
Module (where present subdivision into modules): /
ECTS: 6
SSD: MATH-03/A
Hours of lessons: 60
Practice hours: 20
Educational objectives:
The aim of the course is to provide the fundamental concepts, in view of the applications, related to differential calculus for real and vector functions of several real variables, to integral calculus for functions of two or three real variables, to the differential geometry of curves and surfaces, to ordinary differential equations, to series of functions.
Contents:
Sequences and series of functions in the real field. Real and vector functions of several real variables: limits, continuity and main theorems. Differential calculus for real functions of several real variables: differentiability, fundamental theorems of differential calculus, Taylor’s formula. Relative and absolute extremes: necessary conditions, sufficient conditions. Double and triple integrals of continuous functions on compact sets, reduction and change formulas of variables. Regular curves and surfaces, tangent line and plane, length of a curve and area of a surface. Curvilinear integrals and surface integrals. Differential forms with continuous coefficients and curvilinear integrals of differential forms. Gradient vector fields, irrotational vector fields. Divergence and Stokes’ theorems in the plane and in space. First order differential equations with separable variables, linear differential equations, solution of linear differential equations with constant coefficients.
Teacher: Ausiello G.
Teaching: Technical Architecture I
Module (where present, subdivision into modules): Technical Architecture I + Laboratory of Technical Architecture I
CFU: 9 + 3
SSD: CEAR-08/A
Hours of lessons: 60
Practice hours: 60
Workshop hours: 60
Educational objectives:
Teaching pursues the educational objective of providing the student with the basic concepts, tools, and methods, theoretical and applicative, necessary both for the understanding of the logic on which the design process is based and for the analysis of the building structure, traditional and modern, understood as a complex technological system. The contents will be articulated in two joint directions: on the one hand, the thematic reading which, through a critical analysis of emblematic case studies of ancient and modern architecture, highlights the relationship between architecture and technique, promoting education in observation; on the other hand, the breakdown of the building into the various classes of technological units, allowing a material, formal and functional reading..
Contents:
The scientific-disciplinary contents refer to the analysis of building organisms, in their aspects of a constructive, functional, typological and formal nature and in their system hierarchies, aimed at the issues of project feasibility and optimal compliance of the works with the essential requirements. They involve the critical evaluation of traditional and innovative building techniques and their translation in terms of assisted design and production procedures. They concern both the problems of new constructions at various dimensional scales, and those of the conservation, recovery and renovation of the existing ones.
Teacher: D’Agostino P.
Course: Architectural Design II
Module (where present subdivision into modules): /
ECTS: 9
SSD: CEAR-10/A
Hours of lessons: 60
Practice hours: 40
Educational objectives:
The teaching objective is to broaden and define knowledge in the field and analog and digital representation and modeling for architectural design. In particular, the course aims to provide notions that allow the transition from the geometric model to the constitution and understanding of the accomplished graphic model, as a joint expression of geometric and graphic-symbolic components and graphic semiology.
Contents:
Drawing as a basic language that possesses common rules and codes capable of bringing different disciplines into dialogue starts from recognizing and learning the relationship between visual perception and graphic language. Orienting to modeling including informational modeling and applications to support the realization process at various scales, from the formation of the design idea to its executive definition, to the management of the entire life cycle of products including digital ones.
Teacher: Menale M.
Teaching: Rational mechanics
Module (where present subdivision into modules): /
ECTS: 6
SSD: MATH-04/A
Hours of lessons: 60
Practice hours: 20
Educational objectives:
The aim of the course is to introduce the fundamental principles of classical mechanics and their applications in a physical-mathematical key to model, analyse and solve problems related to engineering. The course aims at providing students with basic notions of vector calculus, kinematics, geometry of masses and statics of systems of material points, rigid bodies, and composite systems.
Contents:
The field encompasses expertise and research areas related to the study, both theoretical and applied, of Mathematical Physics, Rational Mechanics, and more generally of Dynamical Systems, using both analytical and geometric techniques. The teaching skills in this field also cover all the fundamental aspects of basic mathematics.
Lecturer: Maglio A.
Course: History of architecture II
Module (where present subdivision into modules): /
ECTS: 9
SSD: CEAR 11/A
Hours of lessons: 80
Practice hours: 40
Educational objectives:
The course intends to provide students with the cognitive and methodological tools necessary for the understanding of urban phenomena and territorial transformations, in relation to the political, socio-economic, architectural and cultural history in general. It also aims to encourage the formation of research skills and the maturation of students’ critical attitudes.
Contents:
Syllabus: in sequence with the syllabus of the first exam in the history of architecture, taking the mid-eighteenth century as the starting point for the contemporary age, the course is particularly focused on the events of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: both nationally and in Europe, the cultural changes of the nineteenth century are related to decisive themes, such as the birth of eclecticism, the tradition of travel in Italy, the growth of the city and technological innovation; of the twentieth century, in its heterogeneity of socio-political contexts, decisive moments such as Art Nouveau and European rationalism, post-war reconstruction, reactions to International Style and more recent phenomena, from High Tech to Deconstructivism, are analyzed. Particular importance is attributed to the figure of the engineer in the Italian and European panorama, from the moment of his birth, through a reading of the nineteenth-century “engineering” tradition and the legacy left to the following century. The Neapolitan context is outlined – also through inspections – dwelling on some decisive seasons between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: the neoclassical city, the Risanamento, the Fascist period, reconstruction and the second half of the twentieth century.
III Year
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: CEAR-09/A
Hours of lessons: 60
Practice hours: 60
Workshop hours: 60
Educational objectives:
The course is the second phase in the progressive study of the architecture and architectural composition project in the context of the Master’s Degree Programme, deepening the encounter between urban scale and building scale, aiming to provide theoretical and technical knowledge to understand the complexity of the project of architecture in relation to its management and control at different scales, applied to the specific theme of collective living and with particular attention to the relationship with nature and open urban space. The aim of the course is to provide students with an in-depth cognitive framework of the fundamental issues of urban design, both from a theoretical point of view and from that of the practical use of setting and verification tools, as well as developing design skills on the issues of the relationship between architectural artifacts and open public spaces connected to them, at different scales of intervention, in the contemporary city. It offers an opportunity for the design of a complex residential building and its pertinent open spaces.
Contents:
In the disciplinary scientific group [converges] Architectural and Urban Composition […] with the scientific contents of the architectural project […] in their theoretical-critical, methodological, ideational, applicative and experimental articulation. The group recognises the contemporary dimension of architectural, urban and landscape contexts as a material and immaterial, complex and stratified reality. The group […] identifies in the project the inter-scalar and inter-disciplinary synthesis between its own knowledge and the humanistic and technical-scientific knowledge that contribute to the knowledge, interpretation and modification of the physical and social environment. The group assumes the architectural project as an intellectual and scientific product and process, an expression of the action of formal, technical and spatial experimentation, and as a peculiar tool for the training of designers […].
The […] training activity concerns the theoretical, critical and technical dimension of the design of architectural and urban spaces, buildings, places, landscapes and of the form of their evolution in the anthropic and natural components; it identifies the ways of intervention for the transformation of contexts and heritage; it defines the quality of the architectural project on new and existing buildings pursuing technical, formal and relational appropriateness in the tension towards beauty, experimenting with innovative principles of sustainability and compliance, in relation to the environment, economy and society.
Architectural and Urban Composition deals with: the form and space of the building and the city in relation to the needs of man, society and the environment; compositional-designing aspects related to expressive codes and techniques of ex-novo intervention and transformation of the historical and contemporary built heritage; it defines the formal, constructive and settlement characteristics and logics of the architectural figure, in full and empty spaces, in relation to the urban and natural context, to infrastructures and to the territory. Architectural and Urban Design is an inter-scalar discipline that works on the ways of constructing the form of architecture, the city and the territory, in relation to the contemporary needs of man, society and the environment; it investigates expressive codes and intervention techniques, relating to other disciplines, from the human sciences to the technical-scientific ones. The scientific-disciplinary contents are divided into: methodological aspects concerning the theory of design; analytical-instrumental aspects relating to the study of the distributive, typological, morphological, spatial and linguistic characteristics of architecture and the city; compositional-designing aspects, concerning the formal and settlement logic of the elements and parts in relation to the architectural figure and places, the urban and natural context, the infrastructures and the territory. The contents refer to the design of ex-novo interventions and transformation of historical and contemporary heritage, in their various constructive and technical aspects. The didactics exercises the project as experimentation and verification of the theoretical-methodological reflection on architecture and the city.
Lecturer: Del Giudice V.+ Torrieri F.
Teaching: Economics and civil valuation
Module (where present subdivision into modules): /
ECTS: 9
SSD: CEAR-03/C
Hours of lessons: 60
Practice hours: 60
Educational objectives:
The course aims to provide students with the theoretical knowledge and operational methodologies inherent to urban valuations, with particular reference to criteria and procedures for estimating real estate (areas and buildings), as well as the estimative problems inherent to real rights, easements legal, to expropriations for public utility and public procurement.
Contents:
The scientific-disciplinary contents concern the theoretical assumptions and methodologies for appraisal of costs, prices, rates of return on properties, investments, plants, companies, as well as for determinations of compensation, rights, tariffs, with the aim of formulating value judgments and of economic convenience in the civil, territorial and industrial fields.
Teacher: Cutolo A.
Teaching: Construction science
Module (where present subdivision into modules): /
ECTS: 9
SSD: CEAR-06/A
Hours of lessons: 60
Practice hours: 60
Educational objectives:
The scope of the course is to introduce the fundamental concepts as well as to in develop in detail theory and applications related to the mechanics of deformable and elastic continua and structures, which constitute essential themes both for the design and the assessment of single structural components like beams and columns and for more complex systems such as buildings and even infrastructures.
Contents:
The course aims to develop and study topics related to the “mechanics of solids, materials and structures, through methods that allow the description their mechanical behaviors, even in the presence of multi-physics couplings (e.g. constitutive modeling, response to external actions, reliability, integrity, shape and topological optimization, experimental analysis) and the design (including innovative materials and new structural forms) of buildings, organisms or resistant elements of civil and industrial engineering, architecture and design […]. The topics involve statics and problems related to the stability of equilibrium”.
Teacher: Riccio G.
Teaching: Environmental technical physics
Module (where present subdivision into modules): /
ECTS: 9
SSD: IIND-07/B
Hours of lessons: 60
Practice hours: 60
Educational objectives:
The course aims to provide students with in-depth theoretical and practical knowledge to analyze systems and processes involving energy transformations and/or energy transfers, essential skills for solving problems related to the physics of confined environments, environmental conditioning, and the rational use of energy in the built environment.
Contents:
Environmental Technical Physics, as stated in the SSD declaratory statement, covers: “…from a didactic and educational perspective, the fundamental and applied aspects of thermodynamics, heat transfer … the thermophysics of confined environments … plant technologies for air conditioning and environmental well-being … for air quality.” In relation to these areas, the course presents the following content: Fundamentals for calculations. Measurement units – Fundamental and derived quantities – Incoherent quantities and conversion factors – Formal aspects – Operations with numbers representing physical quantities – Significant figures – Measurement of a quantity – Operations. General concepts. Thermodynamic systems – Thermodynamic equilibrium – Properties – State equations – Transformations – Heat – Work – Total energy of a system – Internal energy – Temperature – Heat capacity – Specific heat – Quasi-static transformations – Work due to volume change in quasi-static transformations – Clapeyron diagram – Reversible and irreversible transformations. Mass and energy balances. Meaning of balance – Material balance – Energy balance for closed systems – Energy balance for open systems – Different forms of the First Law for closed systems – Applications of the First Law to certain transformations. Second Law of Thermodynamics. Limitations of the First Law – Statements of the Second Law of Thermodynamics – Calculation of entropy variation – Gibbs equations – Thermal sources and mechanical energy reservoirs – Direction of transformations – Clausius statement – Maximum efficiency of a heat engine – Kelvin–Planck statement – Stable thermodynamic equilibrium – Open systems – Entropy diagram. Pure substances. General concepts and definitions – Vapor pressure – Thermodynamic diagrams p-T and p-v. Gases. General concepts – Equation of state among p, v, and T – Internal energy and enthalpy – Entropy – Transformations – Gas mixtures. Vapors, liquids, and solids. Properties of saturated vapors – Definitions – Specific volume – Specific internal energy – Specific enthalpy – Specific entropy – Properties of liquids – Properties of superheated vapors – Entropy diagram – Mollier diagram – Properties of solids. Moist air. Properties of moist air – State equations – Humidity ratio – Specific enthalpy – Specific volume – Dew point temperature – Psychrometric diagram – Elementary transformations of moist air – Measurement of air humidity. Mechanical energy balance in open systems. Pressure losses in fluid motion through ducts – Flow regimes in ducts – Calculation of pressure losses in fluid flow through ducts – Lamination. Introduction to heat transfer. Heat exchange mechanisms – Fundamental laws – Combined mechanisms. Heat transfer by conduction. Fourier’s postulate – Plane walls – Cylindrical walls. Heat transfer by radiation. Black body – Real bodies – Indefinitely parallel flat surfaces – Non-indefinite surfaces – View factors – Greenhouse effect – Thermal solar panels. Heat transfer by convection. Newton’s law – Forced convection – Natural convection – Convection in cavities. Air conditioning systems. Introduction – Air quality – Thermal-hygrometric comfort – Preliminary sizing of an all-outdoor air conditioning system and a recirculating system. Moisture in masonry (1). Thermal bridges (overview) – Surface condensation – Vapor permeability – Interstitial condensation – Hygrothermal verification of walls – Correction measures. Other causes of moisture in masonry (1). Capillary rise – Retaining walls – Accidental leaks – Meteoric moisture – Construction moisture – Diagnosis – Intervention techniques.
Lecturer: D’Auria S.
Course: Survey of Architecture and the Urban Environment
Module (where present, subdivision into modules): Architecture and Urban Environment Survey + Architecture and Urban Environment Survey Laboratory
CFU: 6 + 3
SSD: CEAR-10/A
Hours of lessons: Architecture and Urban Environment Survey 60%;
Hours of practice: Survey of Architecture and the Urban Environment 40%;
Laboratory: 100%
Educational objectives:
The objective of the teaching is to expand the knowledge of students about the language, methods and analog/digital/infographic tools of architecture and urban environment. The course aims to provide specialist knowledge of advanced digital graphic techniques for design, realisation, visualisation, presentation and communication of an architectural and urban survey in order to make dialogue between the different disciplines of the Course of Study that find in the survey their moment of shared reflection. The most advanced digital modelling techniques related to three-dimensional surveying are also presented.
Contents:
Generation, construction and analysis of drawings, images and models as outcomes of scalar representations of existing realities. Definition of methodologies and tools for the representation and reproductibility in the fields of architecture and engineering. Training in graphic, infographic and multimedia language; survey as a process of morphological and thematic knowledge oriented to critical interpretation; the modeling also includes information. Knowledge of the geometrical-descriptive-configurative, graphic visual-synesthetic, informative-computational domains including their historical, epistemological, semantic aspects.
Teacher: La Rocca R. A.
Teaching: Government of Urban and Territorial Transformations
Module (where present, subdivision into modules): Government of Urban and Territorial Transformations + Laboratory of Governance of Urban and Territorial Transformations
CFU: 9 + 3
SSD: CEAR/12A
Hours of lessons: 90;
Hours of practice: 30;
Laboratory hours: 60;
Educational objectives:
The course of Governance of Urban and Territorial Transformations represents the first segment of aimed at furnishing students the basic knowledge of urban and territorial dynamics as well as of the territorial phenomena occurring on urban systems. The course learning goals is based on the awareness that the skills for the urban planner nowadays must necessarily include theories, tools, and techniques to assist decision-makers in the definition of sustainable solutions and the reaching of resilience objectives. Within the framework of this purpose, the course aims at providing students the theoretical-methodological basis for the study of the city and for understanding the processes of urban and territorial transformation. Through the adoption of the systemic approach, students are trained to understand the interrelationships existing between the different components of complex systems, such as the city and the territory. In line with the educational objectives of the degree structure (CdS), this course contributes to the training of the professional figure of the engineer-architect by providing the basic requirements of the disciplinary sector of urban and regional planning, particularly oriented to the analysis of urban and territorial systems relating them both to natural and anthropic risks and challenges they must face at present.
Contents:
This course equips students with the theoretical and methodological background to understand the forces driving change in cities and territories. Through a systemic approach that acknowledges the complexity of urban and territorial phenomena, students will learn the methods, techniques, and tools required to govern these transformations. They will develop the ability to analyse, measure, and interpret the relationships within and between urban and territorial systems. By understanding the phases of the urban and territorial governance cycle, students will gain the necessary skills to develop a comprehensive perception of urban space, define intervention strategies and effectively participate in decision-making processes for urban and territorial transformations.
IV Year
Teacher: Viola F. + Petillo F.
Teaching: Architecture and architectural composition III
Module (where present, subdivision into modules): Architecture and architectural composition III + Laboratory of Architecture and architectural composition III
CFU: 9 + 3
SSD: CEAR-09/A
Hours of lessons: 60
Practice hours: 60
Workshop hours: 60
Educational objectives:
The course constitutes the third stage of the process of acquiring specialist skills in architectural composition and has as its object the learning of theory, technique and tools for the design of complex buildings in relation both to their use and to their spatial and formal qualities as well as to relationships with the context of belonging.
Contents:
The scientific-disciplinary contents refer to the architectural project, in its extension from the detail to the urban dimension, as a process and moment of synthesis. They are divided into methodological aspects, concerning the theories of contemporary design; analytical-instrumental, for the study of the distributional, typological, morphological, linguistic characteristics of architecture and the city; compositional, concerning the aggregative and formal logic with which the organism defines itself in its elements and parts and relates to its context; design, for the solution of specific issues relating to new or existing interventions.
Teacher: La Rocca R. A.
Teaching: Urban planning technique
Module (where present, subdivision into modules):
CFU: 12
SSD: CEAR/12A
Hours of lessons: 60
Practice hours: 60
Workshop hours: 60
Educational objectives:
The course aims to deepen the changed climatic conditions, the strategies, the techniques, and tools of governance of the urban and territorial transformation. It aims to provide students with cultural approaches, techniques (mostly quantitative) and tools to read, interpret and manage the evolution and transformation of cities and the territories, as well as to implement plans and interventions (through non-traditional techniques) able to drive the changes occurring, to adapt urban systems to face external agents (also due to climate change), to increase the physical and functional resilience of the city characterized by dynamism, complexity and uncertainty.
Contents:
The scientific-disciplinary contents concern the analysis and interpretation of territorial structures and the processes of transformation and government of cities and territories, planning theories and conceptual apparatuses for the elaboration of planning techniques, models and methods for the identification, definition and implementation of policies and actions pertaining to the relations between space and society. In particular: the analysis of territorial, landscape and environmental heritages and settlement contexts; settlement, social and economic transformation processes; the analysis of decision-making processes; the design, management and evaluation of urban and territorial policies; methods and techniques for governing the territory at all scales in a perspective inspired by principles and criteria of environmental, social and economic sustainability; openness and inclusiveness of decision-making processes; safeguarding and enhancing biodiversity; risk reduction; climate change mitigation and adaptation; soil protection; sustainable mobility; equitable accessibility to resources.
Teacher: Pugliese F.
Teaching: Hydraulic construction
Module (where present subdivision into modules): /
ECTS: 9
SSD: CEAR-01/B
Hours of lessons: 80
Practice hours: 40
Educational objectives:
The aim of the course is to rise the students’ knowledge and awareness on the notions relating to the characterization of physical behavior, sustainable management and use of water resources, with specific reference to the definition of the principles for the effective design of the main hydraulic infrastructures serving civil users. The teaching aims, thus, consistently with the aims of the Course, to provide the tools required for the critical analysis to assess the functioning of the main hydraulic supply, distribution and sewerage systems, at both local and urban scale, allowing the acquisition of knowledge and application skills, relevant not exclusively to the disciplinary field of the Course.
Contents:
The scientific-disciplinary contents concern theoretical and experimental knowledge and techniques for planning interventions and for the design, construction and operation of works and systems intended, on the one hand, for the safeguard of the territory against rainfall, watercourses and the sea and, on the other hand, to the use of hydraulic or maritime resources, including ports, water transport and offshore constructions. They include surface and subsurface hydrology with related climatological and meteorological implications; water resources management procedures; specialized technologies for the supply, distribution and discharge of water in urban, agricultural and industrial environments.
Teacher: Formisano A. + Fiorino L.
Teaching: Construction techniques
Module (where present subdivision into modules): Construction technique + Construction technique laboratory
CFU: 9 + 3
SSD: CEAR-07/A
Hours of lessons: 60
Practice hours: 60
Workshop hours: 60
Educational objectives:
The Structural Design course aims to deepen the knowledge of the statics of the structural types of greatest interest to the civil engineer, providing students with the specialized knowledge, tools and methods necessary for the design and evaluation of the degree of safety of civil structures.
Contents:
Study of theories and techniques aimed at both the structural conception and the sizing of new buildings. They include the problems of actions on buildings and the consequent behaviours according to the types and morphologies of materials and technologies, interactions with the soil and the environment, methods and strategies of use and control, assessments of reliability, comfort, safety and durability, methods and tools for structural design and construction of structures.
Teaching: Law and anthropology
Module (where present, subdivision into modules): Notions of building and urban planning law
ECTS: 6 + 3
SSD: GIUR 06/A
Hours of lessons: 40
Practice hours: 40
Educational objectives:
The course on Fundamentals of Law aims to provide future technical professionals with the essential legal and technical tools needed to solve practical problems that may arise in their professional activities, with a predominantly operational approach. The course seeks to offer a basic understanding of legal institutions that intersect with technical activities, as well as the key skills to interpret and comprehend legislative and administrative texts and documents, adopting an interdisciplinary approach.
Contents:
Introductory concepts: constitutional principles. Assets, both public and private. Property, including its content and scope, methods of acquisition, limitations, emissions, and distances between buildings. Restrictions in the public interest, such as conformed and constrained property. Expropriation for public utility, its procedure, and the determination of compensation. Other real rights, including surface rights, usufruct, use, habitation, and easements. Co-ownership and condominium. Possession and its effects. Contracts of particular interest to engineers, such as works contracts, public works contracts, and concessions, considering recent legislative reforms. Workplace safety. The technical professional, their competencies and professional regulations, as well as professional liability. The evolution of regulations, current issues, and new trends in urban planning. Strategic planning, including regional and provincial coordination plans, development plans for industrial areas, landscape plans, basin plans, parks, and protected areas. Municipal planning and the general regulatory plan, covering zoning and the location of public works. Implementation and sectoral planning. Building interventions, including authorization titles such as building permits and declarations of commencement of activity, as well as the procedures for their issuance and effectiveness.
Teacher: Polverino F. + Sicignano C.
Teaching: Building Design and Plant Systems
Module (where present subdivision into modules): Building Design
and Plant Systems + Building Design and Plant Systems Laboratory
CFU: 9 + 3
SSD: CEAR 08/A
Hours of lessons: Building Design and Plant Systems 80%;
Hours of practice: Building Design and Plant Systems 20%;
Laboratory: 100%
Educational objectives:
The course aims to provide students with in-depth knowledge of the functioning of the building system for a proper approach to the technological issues of architectural design, with particular attention to safety, fire prevention, and building systems that influence and define the functionality levels of buildings.
Contents:
Elements for the project and construction of buildings and architecture (including construction materials such as steel, copper, glass, wood). Fire prevention in buildings: regulations, chemical-physical aspects of combustion, extinguishing substances, active and passive protection measures, fire load, fire prevention procedures and risk assessment, vertical rules, elements for an engineering approach to fire prevention. Building systems: typological aspects, components, and networks. The study and in-depth analysis focus on water supply systems, wastewater disposal, elevators, electrical and special systems, gas systems, and air conditioning (briefly).
V Year – mandatory courses
Teacher: Pagano L.
Teaching: Foundations
Module (where present subdivision into modules): /
ECTS: 9
SSD: ICAR / 07
Hours of lessons: 60
Practice hours: 60
Educational objectives:
Base concepts of soil mechanics and specialistic knowledge about shallow and deep foundations.
Contents:
1. Introduction to soil mechanics and foundation engineering 2. Origin of soils 3. Mechanical behaviour of soils through simplified schemes 4. Physical quantities related to soils 5. Experimental measurement of porosity, unit weight and water content 6. Classification of coarse grained soils 7. Classification based on grain size distribution and particle shape 8. Laboratory experiment to detect grain size distribution 9. Index properties of fine-grained soils 10. Laboratory experiment to detect index properties 11. Soil skeleton-water mechanical interaction: the principle of effective stress 12. Stress state at rest due to self-weight 13. Seepage phenomena through porous media 16. Mechanic of solid continuum: stress-states and boundary conditions 17. Mechanic of solid continuum: local equilibrium and Mohr’s stress-circles 18. Mechanic of solid continuum: strains and compatibility equations 19. Mechanic of solid continuum: the stress-strain relationship of the linear elastic medium 20. Stress states induced by loads 21. Formula to compute excess pore water pressure induced by loads 22. Terzaghi’s consolidation theory 25. Compressibility of soils from oedometric tests 27. Strength oof soils: general principles, testing apparatus, representation of results 28. Stress-strain behaviour of sands and critical states 29. Stress-strain behaviour of clays and critical states 31. Typology of shallow foundations 32. Settlements of shallow foundations: base criteria and elastic method 33. Settlements of shallow foundations: oedometric and Skempton-Bijerrrum methods 34. Limit load of shallow foundations 36. Typology of pile foundations 38. Limit load of pile foundations for vertical loads.
Teacher: Nicolella M.
Teaching: Organization of the construction site
Module (where present, subdivision into modules): Construction site organization + Construction site organization laboratory
CFU: 9 + 3
SSD: CEAR-08/B
Hours of lessons: 60
Practice hours: 60
Workshop hours: 60
Educational objectives:
The Construction Site Management course aims to delve deeper into some issues characterizing Building Production, and in particular those most relevant to the executive phase of the building process. The topics covered presuppose a transversal and multidisciplinary educational background, relevant to technological disciplines but without neglecting other sectors such as structures and architecture, knowledge of which constitutes an important prerequisite for making decisions in the operational sphere.
Contents:
Knowledge of the disciplines of Building Production in general allows us to train graduates who have the ability to fully understand the executive, management and organization processes of the same, but also the ability to correlate them with the design documents, orienting – where necessary – the solutions where requested and/or necessary. The course addresses, among other things, themes strongly characterizing the ICAR 11 SSD such as: The construction process: actors, procedures and regulatory framework, programming planning techniques, Project Management, public and private tenders, equipment and machinery, safety in construction sites, construction site management, metric estimate and accounting, demolition techniques, reuse of waste materials.
Teacher:Amore R. + Bianca G. M.
Teaching: Architectural restoration
Module (where present, subdivision into modules): Architectural Restoration + Architectural Restoration Laboratory
CFU: 9 + 3
SSD: CEAR 11B
Hours of lessons: 60
Practice hours: 60
Workshop hours: 60
Educational objectives:
The course aims to provide the student with the knowledge needed to understand the current trends in architectural restoration in Italy, the relationship between architects of the past and pre-existing structures, the origins of modern restoration, the codifications of restoration in the 19th century, and restoration in Italy in the 20th century, through the study of fundamental critical issues in the discipline. It also aims to provide the tools needed to enable the student to independently analyze the built heritage by independently evaluating the processes that have determined its current constructive material palimpsest and, therefore, to be able to consciously address an architectural restoration project, through the phases of historical knowledge, analysis of construction techniques and materials, static analysis and consolidation, conservation of undecorated architectural surfaces, functional adaptation and enhancement.
Contents:
Architectural Restoration is a discipline characterized by a peculiar design and operational propensity, for which knowledge represents a methodological premise and the concreteness of the relationship with the built takes on a distinctive character. The contribution of the CEAR/11B sector in the training courses is therefore essential: the scientific-disciplinary contents of the course include different activities that contribute to the conservation and transmission to the future of cultural heritage, from architecture to landscape. Through a unity of method, Restoration includes the theoretical foundations of the protection of the cultural values of the built interpreted in the historical process, in their figural, material and constructive consistency; the diagnostics and analytical processes for the characterization of phenomena of degradation and instability; the methodologies and techniques for the Restoration and enhancement of the landscape, urban sites, buildings, monuments, archaeological sites, parks and historic gardens including maintenance, consolidation, technological requalification and refunctionalization. In teaching, research and its outcomes, the sector uses scientific methodologies and advanced technologies, even in multidisciplinary contexts.
V Year – free choice courses (max 18 CFU + 3 CFU apart)
Teacher: Coppola M.
Teaching: Advanced Digital Design (old Architecture and architectural composition IV)
Module (where present subdivision into modules): /
ECTS: 9
SSD: CEAR-09/A
Hours of lessons: 72
Practice hours: 72
Educational objectives:
The course aims to provide students with the ability to project their own knowledge of architectural composition into the current dimension characterized by the digital revolution and the challenge of complexity, measuring the project with the urgencies posed by the environmental crisis. The course therefore focuses on the ability to relate, in a reactive and adaptive way and through the tools of digital design and digital fabrication, linguistic, morphological, material and technological choices to the specific conditions of the urban / natural context, addressing the ecological crisis not only from the point of view of an extended meaning of sustainability (regenerative design) but also in the perspective of a transformation of languages, spaces and architectural figures, taking up the cultural challenge launched by post-anthropocentric philosophies and exploring new expressive ways.
Contents:
In the disciplinary scientific group [converges] Architectural and Urban Composition […] with the scientific contents of the architectural project […] in their theoretical-critical, methodological, ideational, applicative and experimental articulation. The group recognises the contemporary dimension of architectural, urban and landscape contexts as a material and immaterial, complex and stratified reality. The group […] identifies in the project the inter-scalar and inter-disciplinary synthesis between its own knowledge and the humanistic and technical-scientific knowledge that contribute to the knowledge, interpretation and modification of the physical and social environment. The group assumes the architectural project as an intellectual and scientific product and process, an expression of the action of formal, technical and spatial experimentation, and as a peculiar tool for the training of designers […].
The […] training activity concerns the theoretical, critical and technical dimension of the design of architectural and urban spaces, buildings, places, landscapes and of the form of their evolution in the anthropic and natural components; it identifies the ways of intervention for the transformation of contexts and heritage; it defines the quality of the architectural project on new and existing buildings pursuing technical, formal and relational appropriateness in the tension towards beauty, experimenting with innovative principles of sustainability and compliance, in relation to the environment, economy and society.
Architectural and Urban Composition deals with: the form and space of the building and the city in relation to the needs of man, society and the environment; compositional-designing aspects related to expressive codes and techniques of ex-novo intervention and transformation of the historical and contemporary built heritage; it defines the formal, constructive and settlement characteristics and logics of the architectural figure, in full and empty spaces, in relation to the urban and natural context, to infrastructures and to the territory. Architectural and Urban Design is an inter-scalar discipline that works on the ways of constructing the form of architecture, the city and the territory, in relation to the contemporary needs of man, society and the environment; it investigates expressive codes and intervention techniques, relating to other disciplines, from the human sciences to the technical-scientific ones.The scientific-disciplinary contents are divided into: methodological aspects concerning the theory of design; analytical-instrumental aspects relating to the study of the distributive, typological, morphological, spatial and linguistic characteristics of architecture and the city; compositional-designing aspects, concerning the formal and settlement logic of the elements and parts in relation to the architectural figure and places, the urban and natural context, the infrastructures and the territory. The contents refer to the design of ex-novo interventions and transformation of historical and contemporary heritage, in their various constructive and technical aspects. The didactics exercises the project as experimentation and verification of the theoretical-methodological reflection on architecture and the city.
Teacher: Stendardo L.
Teaching: Smart Urban Design
Module (where present subdivision into modules): /
ECTS: 6
SSD: CEAR-09/A
Hours of lessons: 48
Practice hours: (to be defined)
Educational objectives:
The Smart Urban Design course, counted among the Courses of Excellence of the Department of Civil, Building and Environmental Engineering, is an advanced course with a marked transdisciplinary approach, aimed in particular at students of the single-cycle Master’s Degree Programme in Building Engineering-Architecture and the Master’s Degree Programme in Building Engineering, but open to all students of all DICEA Master’s Degree Programmes. The course aims at acquiring in-depth knowledge and developing advanced skills in the field of architectural and urban design, with a special focus on interactions with the topic of smart mobility. The course will be carried out in close synergy with other DICEA’s courses of excellence, which will collaborate to create a transdisciplinary workshop on a site-specific design theme. The course deals with the theme of urban transformations with reference to the changes taking place in the field of urban mobility, with a focus on highly multimodal transport systems conceived within the framework of a MaaS (Mobility as a Service) approach. These issues are addressed to reorganise and reshape public space in the contemporary city.
The topic of urban transformation with reference to mobility will obviously be considered with reference to the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals, such as, above all, SDG 11 ‘Making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable’ and SDGs 10 and 5, since equipping public space with multimodal, safe, user-friendly and green mobility services, as well as improving road safety, means taking care of ‘those in vulnerable situations, women, children, people with disabilities and the elderly’, and thus helping to reduce all kinds of inequality. About case studies, the course will focus on a specific urban area that will be chosen on the basis of its strategic importance in relation to existing transport systems and the specific problems to be solved.
Original and innovative design solutions will be presented, implemented and evaluated. The course will therefore produce pilot scenarios for the sustainable transformation of critical urban areas. Students are not expected, nor required, to reach an advanced level in disciplines outside their field of interest, but to develop the maximum degree of interaction with different competences and optimise their specific knowledge and skills within the framework of the shared objectives of the design team. The course is conceived as a design studio and organised as a workshop by one or more (depending on the number of students) transdisciplinary design teams that will focus on a specific design theme for a specific site and problem. Transdisciplinary skills such as team working, problem solving, point-of-view flipping, brainstorming, creative thinking and critical thinking are required and will be enhanced.
Contents:
In the disciplinary scientific group [converges] Architectural and Urban Composition […] with the scientific contents of the architectural project […] in their theoretical-critical, methodological, ideational, applicative and experimental articulation. The group recognises the contemporary dimension of architectural, urban and landscape contexts as a material and immaterial, complex and stratified reality. The group […] identifies in the project the inter-scalar and inter-disciplinary synthesis between its own knowledge and the humanistic and technical-scientific knowledge that contribute to the knowledge, interpretation and modification of the physical and social environment. The group assumes the architectural project as an intellectual and scientific product and process, an expression of the action of formal, technical and spatial experimentation, and as a peculiar tool for the training of designers […].
The […] training activity concerns the theoretical, critical and technical dimension of the design of architectural and urban spaces, buildings, places, landscapes and of the form of their evolution in the anthropic and natural components; it identifies the ways of intervention for the transformation of contexts and heritage; it defines the quality of the architectural project on new and existing buildings pursuing technical, formal and relational appropriateness in the tension towards beauty, experimenting with innovative principles of sustainability and compliance, in relation to the environment, economy and society. Architectural and Urban Composition deals with: the form and space of the building and the city in relation to the needs of man, society and the environment; compositional-designing aspects related to expressive codes and techniques of ex-novo intervention and transformation of the historical and contemporary built heritage; it defines the formal, constructive and settlement characteristics and logics of the architectural figure, in full and empty spaces, in relation to the urban and natural context, to infrastructures and to the territory.
Architectural and Urban Design is an inter-scalar discipline that works on the ways of constructing the form of architecture, the city and the territory, in relation to the contemporary needs of man, society and the environment; it investigates expressive codes and intervention techniques, relating to other disciplines, from the human sciences to the technical-scientific ones. The scientific-disciplinary contents are divided into: methodological aspects concerning the theory of design; analytical-instrumental aspects relating to the study of the distributive, typological, morphological, spatial and linguistic characteristics of architecture and the city; compositional-designing aspects, concerning the formal and settlement logic of the elements and parts in relation to the architectural figure and places, the urban and natural context, the infrastructures and the territory. The contents refer to the design of ex-novo interventions and transformation of historical and contemporary heritage, in their various constructive and technical aspects. The didactics exercises the project as experimentation and verification of the theoretical-methodological reflection on architecture and the city.
Teaching: Infrastructure architecture
Module (where present subdivision into modules): /
ECTS: 9
SSD: CEAR-09/A
Hours of lessons: 60
Practice hours: 60
Educational objectives:
The aim of the course is to provide disciplinary elements, methods and techniques for the complete mastery of architectural design in relation to engineering works that significantly modify landscapes and cities. In today’s scenario, the infrastructures and the artifacts connected to them, the systems linked to the repair and maintenance of the environment, constitute pre-eminent materials in the transformation processes of the metropolis and the territory, deeply affecting the morphology of the places: the course aims to deepen and problematize these issues, providing students with the critical awareness and design tools necessary to govern these phenomena, inserting them into a holistic logic. It will take into account, simultaneously, the technical / local functioning, the landscape, urban, spatial/perceptive and the environmental one, relating to the well-being and safeguarding of ecosystems.
Contents:
In the disciplinary scientific group [converges] Architectural and Urban Composition […] with the scientific contents of the architectural project […] in their theoretical-critical, methodological, ideational, applicative and experimental articulation. The group recognises the contemporary dimension of architectural, urban and landscape contexts as a material and immaterial, complex and stratified reality. The group […] identifies in the project the inter-scalar and inter-disciplinary synthesis between its own knowledge and the humanistic and technical-scientific knowledge that contribute to the knowledge, interpretation and modification of the physical and social environment. The group assumes the architectural project as an intellectual and scientific product and process, an expression of the action of formal, technical and spatial experimentation, and as a peculiar tool for the training of designers […].
The […] training activity concerns the theoretical, critical and technical dimension of the design of architectural and urban spaces, buildings, places, landscapes and of the form of their evolution in the anthropic and natural components; it identifies the ways of intervention for the transformation of contexts and heritage; it defines the quality of the architectural project on new and existing buildings pursuing technical, formal and relational appropriateness in the tension towards beauty, experimenting with innovative principles of sustainability and compliance, in relation to the environment, economy and society.
Architectural and Urban Composition deals with: the form and space of the building and the city in relation to the needs of man, society and the environment; compositional-designing aspects related to expressive codes and techniques of ex-novo intervention and transformation of the historical and contemporary built heritage; it defines the formal, constructive and settlement characteristics and logics of the architectural figure, in full and empty spaces, in relation to the urban and natural context, to infrastructures and to the territory. Architectural and Urban Design is an inter-scalar discipline that works on the ways of constructing the form of architecture, the city and the territory, in relation to the contemporary needs of man, society and the environment; it investigates expressive codes and intervention techniques, relating to other disciplines, from the human sciences to the technical-scientific ones.The scientific-disciplinary contents are divided into: methodological aspects concerning the theory of design; analytical-instrumental aspects relating to the study of the distributive, typological, morphological, spatial and linguistic characteristics of architecture and the city; compositional-designing aspects, concerning the formal and settlement logic of the elements and parts in relation to the architectural figure and places, the urban and natural context, the infrastructures and the territory. The contents refer to the design of ex-novo interventions and transformation of historical and contemporary heritage, in their various constructive and technical aspects. The didactics exercises the project as experimentation and verification of the theoretical-methodological reflection on architecture and the city.
Teacher: Romano R.
Teaching: Architectural Acoustics and Construction
Module (where present subdivision into modules): /
ECTS: 9
SSD: ING-IND / 11
Hours of lessons: 60
Practice hours: 60
Educational objectives:
The course is aimed at providing the student with the basic knowledge for the creation of acoustic comfort conditions in confined spaces according to the intended use. Therefore, aspects related to both the control and evaluation of sound quality and the strategies for improving sound insulation will be investigated.
Contents:
Definitions and fundamentals: Sound field in the air and its description, elementary sound fields, elements of signal analysis, deterministic signals and random signals; representation of a signal in the time domain and in the frequency domain; remarkable sound levels, combination of sound levels, physical phenomena connected with the propagation of sound, hints of physiology of the human ear, elements of psychoacoustics, sound measurement. Sound-absorbing materials and systems: Definition of absorption coefficient, porous materials, properties of porous materials, porous sound-absorbing systems, sound-absorbing systems for membrane resonance, sound-absorbing systems for resonance of cavities, air absorption. Sound propagation in closed environments: Elements of modal theory, perfectly diffused sound field, statistical-energetic theory, definition of reverberation time, formulas for calculating the reverberation time, geometric theory, hints on image and ray tracing methods sound. Sound propagation through walls and panels: Flexural waves in a thin panel, coincidence effect, soundproofing power, acoustic insulation between rooms, law of mass, practical evaluation of the soundproofing power of walls and panels, calculation of the soundproofing power of double walls, calculation of the soundproofing power of composite walls, systems for controlling the transmission of sound by air and by structural means, outline of the legislation in force in the sector. Applications: Noise assessment and control of technological systems, noise control in air conditioning systems, acoustic criteria for speech intelligibility and for the use of music, examples of metrological surveys, use of application software for the control of noise in air conditioning systems, for the study of the sound field in closed environments, for the evaluation of the passive acoustic requirements of buildings.
Teacher: Fumo M.
Teaching: Building renovation project
Module (where present subdivision into modules): /
ECTS: 9
SSD: ICAR / 10
Hours of lessons: 60
Practice hours: 60
Educational objectives:
The course aims to provide students with the knowledge necessary to set up the project of recovery and functional enhancement of buildings in relation to the resources, the local construction culture, the international standards and recommendations in force and functional needs.
Contents:
Theoretical approach to the recovery and restoration project: international restoration papers and Italian regulations on the subject. Evolution of the concept of building protection. Analysis tools and methods preliminary to the recovery intervention. Design criteria for maintenance, conservative rehabilitation, building and town planning renovation. The seismic improvement project. The energy improvement project: technical measures and choice of materials.
Teacher: Formisano A.
Module (where present subdivision into modules): Masonry constructions
ECTS: 6
SSD: CEAR-07/A
Hours of lessons: 40
Practice hours: 40
Educational objectives:
The course of Masonry Constructions aims to provide the basis for the structural design of new concept masonry constructions and for the static consolidation, upgrading and seismic retrofitting of existing structures, also with reference to monumental ones.
Contents:
Study of theories and techniques aimed at both the structural conception and the sizing of new masonry buildings. They include the problems of actions on buildings and the consequent behaviours according to the types and morphologies of materials and technologies, interactions with the soil and the environment, methods and strategies of use and control, assessments of reliability, comfort, safety and durability, methods and tools for structural design and construction of structures. The ability of existing masonry constructions, also of historic and monumental type, to withstand the actions defined in the design phase is also evaluated and criteria and methods of interventions aimed at improving their behaviour in seismic areas are established.
Teacher: Palombo A.
Teaching: Air conditioning systems
Module (where present subdivision into modules):
ECTS: 9
SSD: ING-IND / 11
Hours of lessons: 60
Practice hours: 60
Educational objectives:
The course aims to develop knowledge in relation to the energy efficient design of the building with a view to energy and environmental sustainability. Fundamental knowledge on air conditioning techniques and building energy is provided, highlighting the application aspects. Based on the intended use of the rooms and the energy-economic aspects, the student must be able to choose the system. Therefore, he must know how to design and manage them also on the basis of current regulations.
Contents:
Humid air and thermohygrometric wellbeing: metabolism, wellbeing assessment, ventilation. Winter thermal loads: thermal loads for dispersion and ventilation, design temperatures, thermal bridges, calculation method. Summer thermal loads: sensitive and latent loads, solar radiation and transmission through glass, transmission through opaque walls, internal and ventilation loads, calculation methods. Heating systems: heat generator, pumps, network, expansion vessel, valves, safety devices. Design of the water distribution network: materials, calculation of pressure drops, sizing. Heat exchange terminals: analysis, sizing and regulation of radiators, fan coils, unit heaters, convectors, radiant panels. Energy saving and energy certification of the building: current legislation and reference standards, degree days, energy recovery and insulation of the building envelope, overall performance of the building-plant system, total primary energy requirement of the building, methods to reduce energy consumption in buildings. Renewable sources applied to construction, solar thermal and photovoltaic: legislation, design, applications. Summer and winter air conditioning systems: sizing and regulation of centralized systems, multi-zone centralized systems, double duct systems, mixed air-water systems, autonomous systems. Design of the air distribution network: intake and return, pressure drops, pressure at the diffusers, sizing of the channels. Refrigeration units and heat pumps. Vapor compression and absorption groups: operation and thermodynamic cycle, thermal energy sources, applications.
Teacher: Mele E.
Teaching: Structures for tall buildings and large roofs
Module (where present subdivision into modules):
ECTS: 9
SSD: ICAR / 09
Hours of lessons: 60
Practice hours: 60
Educational objectives:
The course aims to provide the basic elements of the structural behavior and therefore of the design of the typical structures of tall buildings and large roofs also with reference to the structural types used, a design application is developed that analyzes a work of significant architectural interest .
Contents:
Structural schemes of tall buildings in reinforced concrete and steel. Behavior and modeling of tall building structures. Structural schemes of large roofs in wood, steel and reinforced concrete. Study of the actions of the wind on tall buildings and large roofs. Study of the effects of seismic actions on tall buildings and large roofs. Hints on the control of the structural response through coupled masses and / or dissipators. Structural typologies adopted with reference to the different materials. Elementary behavior and analysis of arch, rope, vault and plate schemes. Classification of flat steel plate structures, their structural behavior and analysis. Technostructures: behavior and analysis. Notes on the applications of structural glass. Development of a design project with particular reference to the structural analysis aspects of a work of significant architectural interest.
Teacher: Fascia F.
Teaching: Technologies for building restoration
Module (where present subdivision into modules):
ECTS: 9
SSD: CEAR 08/A
Hours of lessons: 60
Practice hours: 60
Educational objectives:
The course aims to equip students with methods and tools for a comprehensive understanding of the technological aspects involved in building recovery projects. The topics are explored through the analysis of emblematic case studies and recurring technical challenges, allowing students to develop, through laboratory activities, theoretical lessons, and site visits, the ability to apply their knowledge in practical design experimentation for the conservation and adaptive reuse of existing architectures.
Contents:
The course focuses on the built heritage and its historical development. This topic is examined through the lens of construction and recovery technologies. Special attention is given to materials, construction components, technological systems, and potential strategies for functional improvement and performance enhancement.
In both lectures and practical sessions, the following topics are covered:
– Analysis of degradation, including the cataloging of building components based on materials, construction methods, and types of deterioration;
– Recovery techniques for building elements constituting the Building System, considering foundations, structural components, floors, roofs, envelope closures, vertical connections, internal partitions, and common building systems.
For each building component, the main recovery techniques compatible with the original construction are discussed, highlighting their requirements and performance characteristics.
Teacher: Gargiulo C.
Teaching: Territorial governance tools
Module (where present subdivision into modules):
ECTS: 9
SSD: CEAR-12/A
Hours of lessons: 60
Practice hours: 60
Educational objectives:
The aim of the course is to integrate approaches for studying city safety and promoting urban resilience starting from the concept of “urban entropy”. The courses focus on the interdisciplinary aspects of urban planning, using a holistic-systemic approach, and incorporating innovative technology and digital tools to address urban issues. The goal is to equip students with the knowledge to identify sustainable actions that can reduce the risk levels of urban systems and maintain the safety and organization of the city and its inhabitants in the face of external threats. The final module of the course will be conducted in a join class and will focus on the GIS-based assessment of urban entropies in a specific area of the city of Naples. Hypotheses for urban recovery and regeneration will be developed, and site visit activities in the area will also be carried out.
Contents:
With reference to the SDD CEAR-12/A declaration, the course delves into the methods and techniques for territorial governance at various scales, inspired by principles and criteria aimed at reducing urban and territorial risks and adapting to climate change.
Teacher: Faggiano B.
Teaching: Wooden constructions
Module (where present subdivision into modules):
ECTS: 9
SSD: ICAR / 09
Hours of lessons: 60
Practice hours: 60
Educational objectives:
The course aims at acquiring knowledge relating to the mechanical characteristics of wood as a structural material and the corresponding methods of assessing safety, for its use in new structures (both in solid wood and in laminated wood) and in the recovery of historical ones, within the framework of European legislation and recent national legislation.
Contents:
Wood and materials obtained from wood for use in construction. Solid wood as a structural material: physical and mechanical characteristics. The classification of structural solid wood according to strength and strength classes. Glulam: the production process, mechanical characteristics and resistance classes. The problems of durability and protection. Fire behavior. Verification of section resistance (ultimate limit states). The stability checks of the structural elements. Calculation of deformations (limit states of exercise). Special structural elements in solid wood and laminated wood. The composite beams and pillars. Traditional carpentry connections and modern joints with cylindrical shank metal elements. The structural composition with wooden elements. Existing structures in ancient wood: safety assessment and recovery interventions compatible with conservation needs. The national and European regulatory framework.
Lecturer: Prota A. + Parisi F.
Teaching: Diagnosis and therapy of structural instability
Module (where present subdivision into modules):
ECTS: 9
SSD: ICAR / 09
Hours of lessons: 60
Practice hours: 60
Educational objectives:
Knowledge of structural behavior through the analysis of pathologies in buildings.
Knowledge of the causes of collapse and failure for the purposes of prevention and correct design and execution.
Knowledge of structural therapies in the presence of instability.
Knowledge of Forensic Engineering in civil and criminal proceedings.
Contents:
Technical legislation. Professional responsibilities. Forensic Engineering (civil and criminal judicial technical consultancy). Structural pathologies (punctual and elementary crises; resistance criteria; crack patterns and their evolution). Semiotics of instability (of masonry, reinforced concrete, steel, wooden structures) due to natural, accidental, exceptional actions, actions of the land, water, time and environment. Diagnosis of collapses and major failures due to human actions. Cognitive investigations on structures. Structural collapse analysis. Controlled demolitions. Progressive collapse. Structural problems related to terrorist actions. Urgent insurance works. Treatment of structural instability and consolidation interventions on masonry, reinforced concrete, steel and wood constructions.
Teacher: Bilotta A.
Teaching: Reinforced concrete buildings
Module (where present subdivision into modules):
ECTS: 9
SSD: CEAR-07/A
Hours of lessons: 60
Practice hours: 60
Educational objectives:
The course aims to guide the student in:
– Understanding the salient phases of structural design of reinforced concrete buildings in seismic zone in the current regulatory framework.
– Identifying the potential structural criticalities of an existing reinforced concrete building with respect to
to the performance required by the new standards.
– Acquiring the basic knowledge for (i) the in-depth investigation of a structural criticality of a reinforced concrete building, (ii) the interaction with other technicians involved in the design and execution chain of the building process, and (iii) the framing of the structural design in a BIM environment.
The student will therefore be able to understand the nonlinear behavior of elements in reinforced concrete subject to seismic actions, justify regulatory guidance underlying the methods advanced design of reinforced concrete buildings in seismic zones, propose solutions improving the structural behavior of a newly designed and existing building.
Contents:
Structural design of the reinforced concrete framed building subject to vertical and horizontal actions. Structural actions and performance. Seismic action and response spectra. The technical regulations in the seismic zone. Material properties and methods for improvement. Verifications of strength of reinforced concrete sections for application to real cases. Plastic hinge and structural ductility. Structural types and behavior factor. Seismic behavior of frames, wall-frames, simple walls, coupled walls. Mechanisms of frames and hierarchy of strengths. Verification of joints in reinforced concrete framed buildings. Verification of the deck for seismic action. The design structural design in the BIM environment. Consolidation of existing reinforced concrete buildings. Levels of knowledge and tests on existing buildings. Static and seismic instabilities. Overview of the main interventions in consolidation of reinforced concrete buildings. Material tests for new and existing buildings. Durability of reinforced concrete and innovative materials. Technological problems and new perspectives. Applications to the most significant structural elements of buildings in seismic zones.
Teacher: Bellia L.
Teaching: Lighting technology
Module (where present subdivision into modules):
ECTS: 9
SSD: ING-IND / 11
Hours of lessons: 44
Practice hours: 28
Educational objectives:
The course aims to acquire by the student the basic notions of lighting engineering, the components of lighting systems and their characteristics, as well as the techniques and tools currently used in design practice. The goal is to learn the methodologies and procedures to make design choices that optimize the needs of visual comfort, energy saving and environmental impact. The latest technological innovations and research currently being conducted in the sector will be presented.
Contents:
The nature of light and its physical characteristics: electromagnetic radiation, the visible field, propagation of radiation in a vacuum, the laws of thermal radiation, the black body, the main radiometric quantities.
Interactions between light and matter. Spectral factors of reflection, transmission and absorption. Global factors. Mirror reflection. specular refraction: Snell’s law. Total reflection.
Photometric quantities: relationship between radiometric and photometric quantities. The spectral factor of visibility in photopic and scotopic vision. The luminous flux. Relationship between luminous flux and energy. The light intensity. The luminance. The illumination. The light emission. The inverse square law of distance and cosine.
The measure of light. Basics of photometry. The characteristics of the measuring instruments. The luxmeter, the luminance meter. The Ulbricht sphere for measuring the luminous flux. Spectroradiometric and spectrophotometric measurements.
The mechanism of vision: notes on the functioning of the human visual system. The adaptation. Visual disturbances. The three-dimensional vision. The chromatic vision. Visual performance: characterizing parameters.
The perception of colors: hints of colorimetry and spectrophotometry. The vision of colors. The trichromatic theory: additive and subtractive synthesis. Grassmann’s laws. The color spaces. The chromatic adaptation models. The measure of color.
The sources of artificial light. Characteristic parameters of the lamps: average life, luminous efficiency, color rendering, color temperature, operating conditions. Incandescent, gas discharge lamps (metal halide, sodium vapor, mercury vapor), LED.
Lighting bodies: construction and performance characteristics. The LOR. The CIE flux code. Photometric characteristics. Energy performance of the lamp-lighting body system.
Natural light: diffused light coming from the celestial vault and direct sunlight. The sky models. Models for assessing the access of natural light in indoor environments. the daylight factor. Dynamic models. Screening and filtering systems for controlling natural light.
Calculation methods for design: simplified methods. The calculation by points. The utilization factor method. The use of calculation software.
Indoor lighting. The UNI EN 12464-1 standard for the lighting of workplaces: parameters to check. The energy performance of indoor lighting systems. The LENI index (Lighting Energy Numeric Indicator). Strategies for achieving reductions in consumption.
Outdoor lighting and street lighting. Street lighting legislation: parameters to check. The energy performance of outdoor lighting systems. Notes on the lighting of the facades of buildings. The lighting of parks and gardens.
Notes on the most recent research in the lighting sector: non-visual effects of light on humans: the impact of light on the circadian rhythm, productivity and mood. Indices for the evaluation of glare from natural light, relations between luminance and brightness, mesopic vision in night environments.
Teacher: Capaldo G.
Teaching: Project Management for Civil Works
Module (where present subdivision into modules):
ECTS: 9
SSD: ING IND / 35
Hours of lessons: 50
Practice hours: 30
Educational objectives:
Develop the ability to plan and control, according to the dual temporal and economic dimension, projects relating to Civil Works and Infrastructures, through the appropriate and conscious use of Project Management techniques
Contents:
Introduction to Project Management. The meaning of a project according to the Project Management Institute (PMI). Project Management.
The life cycle of the project. Project Management processes according to PMI.
How did the need to create a Civil Works project arise
Relations between the Company and the Contracting Authority according to national and EU legislation
The various levels of planning: preliminary, final and executive project
The works that make up a project for Civil Works
The start of the project, the implementation of the project plan, the project charter.
The project planning management: the project planning process: the definition of the project purpose, the definition of the WBS (Work Breakdown Structure), the realization of the WBS, the rules to be respected for the realization of the WBS.
The definition of organizational responsibilities in the implementation of the project: the Organization Breakdown Structure (OBS) and the Responsability Assignment Matrix (RAM).
The definition of activities and the estimation of resources. Methods for estimating project resources: Bottom-up methods, Top-down methods, Analogy estimation methods, Parametric estimation methods, Estimation methods based on expert opinion. Comparisons between the different methods and selection criteria.
The project scheduling: the identification of the execution order of the activities and the precedence constraints, the construction of the project network, the project scheduling through the Critical Path Method (CPM), the Gantt chart and its use in the project planning.
Peculiarities of the orders and of the planning and control cycle of the orders in the field of Civil Works and Infrastructures
The construction of the order estimate: the initial offer estimate, the executive estimate, the updated estimate.
The final balance of the contract costs.
Risk Management: identification, analysis and assessment of project risks; identification of risk response actions.
Progress control. The Earned Value method and its applications. The analysis of the deviations. The identification of corrective actions and the reprogramming of activities.
The role of Project Management and the skills required to operate successfully in that role.
International institutes accredited for the certification of Project Manager skills, notes on the process relating to the acquisition of certification.
Lecturer: Prof. Ing. Guido Capaldo
Testimonials and exercises: Eng. Luigi Grosso, Eng. Antonello Volpe
Code: Semester:
Prerequisites / Prerequisites: None
Teaching method: Lectures, exercises, illustration of case studies, illustration of how to use the WinProject software and any laboratory exercises, seminars and expert testimonials
Teaching materials:
Textbook “Project Management: principles, methods and applications to the civil works sector” (by Guido Capaldo and Antonello Volpe), Mac-Graw Hill, 2011
Case studies, exercises and additional teaching materials, published on the teacher website and on the textbook website
Project reports for the development of the Project Management report
Supplementary handouts provided by the teachers
Method of examination:
Discussion of a design project developed as part of the course, relating to a specific type of project for which the student will have to develop and apply the planning and control methodologies illustrated during the course.
Oral interview
For those who pass the exam, the recognition of training credits is required for access to the PMI (Project Management Institute) first level certification.
Teacher: Polverino F.
Teaching: Executive Design of Building Elements
Module (where present subdivision into modules): /
ECTS: 9
SSD: CEAR 08/A
Hours of lessons: 50%;
Practice hours: 50%
Educational objectives:
The course is dedicated to the detailed design of the components that make up the buildings at different scales of complexity (basic, functional construction, factory elements). The approach methodologies are defined with reference to the technical characteristics of the individual elements that make up the parts of the buildings and to the problems of construction and functional compatibility of the technological packages. The purpose of the teaching is to prepare the student to measure himself in project synthesis processes concerning real cases, referring to the aspects of safety, the regulatory frameworks in force, desired levels of performance, stringent project timelines and building production.
The theoretical part and the practical part are deeply correlated and have points of convergence on the one hand in the reading of the built, with recognition of the constituent elements and techniques that underpin the construction phase, on the other in the executive design of parts of the building, with reference to possible construction site activities and the building industry market.
Contents:
The course aims to provide students with fundamental principles for appropriately approaching the design of construction systems, considering also their historical development, to ensure the proper execution and recovery of architectural works and buildings.
Specifically, the following topics are covered:
The practical exercises include:
The detailed design of a new architectural object, fully conceived from the perspectives of architecture, functionality, technological content, and economic-environmental impacts.
THESIS
The degree thesis, from which the mastery of the topics, the ability to operate autonomously and a good level of communication must emerge, concerns issues related to architectural and / or urban planning and is didactically assisted by a 300-hour design laboratory. Upon completion of the studies, a master’s degree in Building Engineering-Architecture is obtained.
The presentation of the thesis work will take place publicly in front of a Commission of professors, supervisors and non-speakers, set up ad hoc by the Polytechnic School. The student will discuss the content of the final drawings, graphics and calculations, by means of tables and documents in paper format and will be able to support the dissertation with a short presentation in power point.
In the final evaluation, the Commission will acquire the non-binding opinions of the rapporteur, any co-rapporteur and the reviewer; the final judgment will take into account the intrinsic value of the thesis content and the methodological rigor of the same, of the topic dealt with in relation to the didactic-training objectives of the CdS and finally of the candidate’s career.
Given the particular course of study followed by the Building Engineers-Architects and the wealth of knowledge acquired in the field of building design and their conservation and restoration in relation to the environmental and urban context, they can be involved at all levels of project scale, starting from territorial planning, to those of the conception of the architectural idea, of the functional, structural and technological definition of the building work.
Graduates of the CdS in question can also take on decision-making and operational roles in the organization and management of the construction site (construction management, site management, safety coordination assistance, etc.) where, with competence, they know how to interact with institutions and territorial reference bodies and deal with the world of on-site production and that of the construction industry.
During the course of study, the graduate in Building Engineering-Architecture matures broad skills through participation:
a) characterizing didactic-training activities useful for solving recurring technical and architectural problems in the urban, compositional, technological and management of the building process (see Urban Planning Technique I, II; Architecture and Architectural Composition I, II, III ; Technical Architecture I, II; Construction Science; Construction Technique; Law and Anthropology; Economics and Civil Appraisal; Construction Site Organization);
b) training activities in disciplinary areas similar to or supplementary to the basic and characterizing ones of the CdS (Hydraulic Construction; Foundations);
c) to educational activities qualifying thematic in-depth study (chosen by the student) regarding: urban planning (Territory Government Tools) the building / environmental context relationship (Building Acoustics and Architecture, Lighting, Air Conditioning Systems); technological problems (Technical Architecture III, Building Recovery Project, Building Recovery Techniques) and structural problems (Diagnosis and therapy of structural instability; Reinforced Concrete Buildings, Tall Buildings and Large Roofs; Wooden Buildings; Masonry Buildings and their Historical Development ); compositional aspects (Architecture and Architectural Composition IV; Architecture of Infrastructures);
d) additional supplementary teaching activities chosen by the student for the development of knowledge useful for thesis work and postgraduate professional integration;
f) professional training in technical firms, private and public bodies and offices operating in the sector, productive realities of specific interest in the world of architecture and building construction.
The Building Engineer-Architect, a figure of European significance, can find a natural professional outlet, in single or associated form, in all fields of interest in urban planning and territorial planning and design, the latter understood on the one hand as moment of conceptual and material definition of new architectural organisms and building artifacts, simple and with high functional and technological complexity, on the other hand as an operational tool for building recovery, conservation and restoration of organisms subject to protection. Within the construction site he will be able to take on organizational, control and management roles, in the construction industry he will be able to assume roles in the design of construction elements and as a production technician. Finally, there are many outlets in the field of technical consultancy for aspects of law, civil appraisal, environmental sustainability, safety in the workplace, fire prevention.
The course aims at forming a cultural and professional profile as an engineer-architect and holds together the humanistic, scientific and technical training in a didactic path organized organically over five years, without solution of continuity.
The didactic approach, which sees the project as a moment of synthesis, ensures the acquisition of skills and professionalism linked to a constantly evolving reality and, also for this reason, tends to favor innovative pedagogical models.
The achievement of the title allows graduates, among other things, to enroll in the Register of Engineers, the Register of Architects or even both.
Access is limited in accordance with the European Directive which ensures the free movement of graduates throughout the United Europe.
The teaching activity takes place at the Polytechnic School and Basic Sciences complex of the Federico II University of Naples. In addition to frontal teaching, theoretical and practical exercises are carried out as well as design workshops that favor group work and constant teacher-student interaction, also encouraged through tutoring activities.
