Catalogo dei Corsi di studio

The design studio intends to address urban and housing design issues, in general and comprehensive terms and aims to let students develop the knowledge bases to recognize in the city the morphological different patterns and the relations between them and the building typologies in order to solve efficiency, spatial, symbolic, housing market issues. The Course will investigate the fundamental literature from the Modern Movement, to the school of Rome case studies, to the latest contemporary housing projects. The studio aims to let students develop the knowledge bases for an aware design activity at urban and architectural scale, with special reference to residential design, technology and structural elements, environmental issues and real estate market trends.

GARDEN DESIGN
The main objective of the course is to enhance the complexity of the design of the gardens, in the direction of the formation of an open feeling to the various components and in the construction of a specific technical knowledge of the subject. The opening towards a "Poetics of the Garden" is understood as an expression of a creative approach, mediated by an awareness of the uses and functions of space and integrated with a specific capacity of handling of the matter.

VISUAL CULTURE AND ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION
The course aims to stimulate critical skills in the students using instruments and products of contemporary visual culture and through the development of their narrative, communicative and explorative abilities using the peculiar potentialities of different media, so as to relate the image’s contemporary theories to the architectural project’s culture.

OUTFITTING ARCHITECTURE AND MUSEOGRAPHY
The course is intended to provide the main skills for an appropriate approach to the exhibition spaces, training students on both sides of Museum Design and Outfitting Architecture. The Museum Design is conceived as the discipline that looks over the setting and the equipment of the exhibition areas as peculiar places where the exchange between users and cultural material occurs. The Outfitting Architecture turns exhibition concepts inspired by the cultural material into phenomenally suggestive settings.eculiar places where the exchange between users and cultural material occurs. The Outfitting Architecture turns exhibition concepts inspired by the cultural material into phenomenally suggestive settings.

The program is intended for students interested in focused training on Italian Modern Architecture and Italian Modern Urban Design with a special focus on the Rome as Modern Capital Town as case-study, and the idea of the city expressed by Roman post-unitarian and post-war neighborhoods. Given the participation to the course in the previous years of non European students the teaching objectives have been extended to European and non-European urbanism and design case studies in emerging cities.

CONTEMPORARY PLANNING THEORIES
The course provides the knowledge about the contemporary debate on the planning in three main areas: (1) theoretical reflections on the principles and objectives at different scales (from city to urban space, and building); (2) debate on the conceptual structure and the planning processes (scenarios, design, evaluation, participation forms etc.); (3) planning and design experiences in terms of strategies and spatial solutions.The training objective is realized in the knowledge of the theoretical debate and spatial solutions of the past twenty years’ plans.

HISTORY OF THE CITY OF ROME
The course will cover the architectural history of Rome considered in the four fundamental moments: Antiquity, Middle Ages, Modern Age, and Contemporary Age.
Regarding the latter issue, the course will cover the events of Rome between the mid-nineteenth century and the twentieth century as the capital of Italy.

The Online Architectural Design course is expressly conceived for use on the Net (platform moodle elearning2.uniroma1.it). This experimental course deals with the topic of architectonic composition introducing the concepts of "Links and Boundaries: Archetypal Contents for Innovative Design" as most representative of urban space and essential for the development of innovative design. The OAD Course aims to introduce the student to the idea of the persistence of “spatial archetypes” present, in different forms and guises, in the phenomenology of built context and to provide the student with a focused experience of project production.

In the era of globalisation and of Anthropocene, geo-architecture -a word coined by Le Corbusier in 1942- aims to build a new sensitivity towards an architecture of responsibility, capable of uniting several trends in a common programme to give architecture back the almost lost objective of improving our lives. A humble architecture, in pursuit of dwelling on earth that is art without necessarily the arrogance of being an end unto itself; an architecture that assumes the responsibility of protecting the environment, reducing pollution, fighting inequality between peoples, reducing the processes of climate change that may destroy the balance that exists here on earth and its landscapes.

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND ARCHITECTURE IT-CAAD

This Course features a combination of theoretical and design approaches. The theoretical ones are concerning with the relationship between Information Technology and Architecture in this historical phase. From the design point of view, students are guided through tutorials and lectures in different IT environments in order to understand the potentials of each one. The course develops in eight thematic cycles that range from "World of Raster" to the "Scripting". A research project with design exemplification concludes the course in a public conference with guests and experts.

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN SYNTHESIS STUDIO
The Architectural design Synthesis Studio is the final design examination, which concludes the students’ academic career. In this studio particular emphasis is placed on the realization of the project and as a result the integration of a number of disciplines. Equal weight is given to graphic representation involving the use of both traditional techniques and digital technology. Students will develop individual projects largely within the context of the design studio seminars.

URBAN PLANNING DESIGN SYNTHESIS STUDIO
The Urban planning design Synthesis Studio, as the ultimate experience of urban training time, contributes to master fully building of a design experience, defining the phases in totality, from objectives to cognitive processes, design definition, technical and quantitative specificity, impact assessments, and the explicit rules and regulations according to a methodological original approach. The educational objective is the full maturity in managing the entire design process.

ARCHITECTURAL AND LANDSCAPE DESIGN SYNTHESIS STUDIO
The Synthesis Studio is the final design examination, which concludes the students’ academic career. The Synthesis Studio in Architectural and Landscape design will develop an awareness of the multidisciplinary relations involved in the complex urban project with the aim of controlling the transformation of the physical environment and the pursuit of the quality of project design through a functional and aesthetic integration of built structures, urban spaces and landscape.

INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE AND EXHIBITION DESIGN SYNTHESIS STUDIO
Interior architectural Synthesis Studio deals with complex design issues connected to the subjects of Interior Architecture as the main instruments to activate and realize the process of recovery and rehabilitation of existing buildings and urban structures. The aim of studio is to improve the students' listening ability and critical skills towards architecture. This will enable them to envisage the transformation of the existing building heritage both on an aesthetic and functional level. The detail project will be the core of the didactic strategies of the studio, as a tool to control the spatial quality such as a link between users and designers, with the aim of providing practical-theoretical instruments to face the complexity of Interior Design.

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN AND STRUCTURAL RESTORATION SYNTHESIS STUDIOThe Architectural design and structural restoration Synthesis Studio provides students with the tools to achieve the sensitivity to structural aspects that is instrumental to a conscious design of both new buildings, and of structural rehabilitation of existing ones. Attention will be given to the close correlation between the designed object and its building feasibility, with reference to utilized materials and techniques, by recognizing the structural aspect its role of implicit moment in the design activity. Topics will be developed with reference to both the traditional and the most recent and innovative approaches.

The final studio is focused on a project experimenting activity, which develops the contents of the technological design of the architecture and the experience gained in courses of other disciplines, coordinating and integrating into them. Objective of the course is to train students in the conscious and responsible use of all the knowledge gained in previous years through the project of a transformation of the built environment. For further levels of detail (from the construction to the detail scale), students will have to use operational tools (knowledge, analysis, prefabrication, quality assessment of the intervention) to ensure the necessary consistency between the project development phases on various levels of depth and technological feasibility of the proposed solutions, demonstrating its design and implementation suitability at various scales, with respect to the social, environmental and economic context.

RESTORATION DESIGN SYNTHESIS STUDIO
The Synthesis Studio aims to examine in depth the issues related to different levels of the conservation project, beginning from the feasibility plan till to the definitive and executive phase. The former level encompasses the historical study and diagnostic activity on the existing building. The definition of the links jointing the understanding of the edifice or of the historical site to the design decision making – in the different scales – will be particularly focused. The project will define the general architecture characteristics and the technical specificities related to the conservation aspects of the structures and the material surfaces.

INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN
Interior design is an approach to architecture, focusing on the contained space rather than on the wrap delimiting this space. The course investigates and points out the aspects that define the housing concept. Besides it verifies the outcomes in spatial configuration, seeking that relation between good building practice and quality of architectural form in order to create a coherent whole. Dimensions lie on a human scale and the consequent phenomenal approach to the project are the referring terms for the maieutics of the disciplinary knowledge.ural form in order to create a coherent whole. Dimensions lie on a human scale and the consequent phenomenal approach to the project are the referring terms for the maieutics of the disciplinary knowledge.

SEISMIC DESIGN, ASSESSMENT AND UPGRADE
The course provides the fundamentals of earthquake generation and of the response of structures to earthquake motion. The course provides the tools for designing structures to withstand earthquakes, including innovative seismic protection techniques, as well as for checking compliance with seismic performance requirement according to modern design codes. Finally, the course covers recent important developments in the important area of seismic risk assessment and reduction for existing non-conforming buildings.

AESTHETICS
Subject of the course are themes and concepts of contemporary architecture analyzed from a philosophical point of view. The historical tradition of aesthetic studies is involved in the course as well as the present discussion. The architectural experience is therefore understood in reference to the practices of art, to the theories of perception and language, to the new knowledge about the relationships between neurosciences and aesthetic behavior.

LIGHTING DESIGN
The aim of the course is to provide students with the tools for lighting design of spaces and environments, both indoors and outdoors, using both the nature of light is artificial light. Will be considered the aspects of vision, electrotechnical aspects, regulatory issues, both aspects of energy conservation and light pollution.

METHODS AND INSTRUMENTS FOR PROJCT AND CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT
The objective of the course is to provide the knowledge of the complex process management techniques, either at the design level – Project Management – and at the operational level – Construction Management – with particular reference to the roles of the different players, to the management instruments (WBS, Gantt, PERT, budgeting and budgetary control, cost control and quality assurance, risk analysis, verbalization and reporting), to the tender strategies and rules, to the direction and management of the construction site, till the testing and commissioning of the architecture.

HISTORY OF THE CITY AND OF THE TERRITORY
The course aims at teaching historical and critical knowledge about the relation between the city and the territory with specific attention to themes and figures of the European tradition.

STRUCTURAL REINFORCEMENT OF HISTORICAL BUILDINGS
The course aims to develop a critical knowledge for the formulation of opinion concerning the status and state of conservation of an existing building structure and, subsequently, for the identification of any appropriate interventions of structural reinforcement, calibrated in accordance with the limitations of all the constituents "boundary conditions" of the problem.

SCENOGRAPHY
The course introduced the basic notions of critical historical analysis of modern and contemporary scenography introducing the student to the complexity of the subject matter. It provides the instruments required to identify the similarities and differences in the various scenographic types, from the theatre to television and cinema, highlighting the experimental nature and value in stage set design in the search for new forms of expression and techniques of communication.

MODELLING FOR STRUCTURAL DESIGN IN ARCHITECTURE
The course aim is to study in more detail structural modeling and analysis, with particular reference to the criteria of design formulation and structural model, with its numerical implementation. By characterizing the models for the structural system and acting forces and their implementation with numerical codes, theoretical knowledge and operational procedures will be extended and completed; specific skills for the statement and development structural analysis of even complex buildings will be developed.

GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING
The main purpose of this course is to introduce the basic principles of soil mechanics and the design principles in geotechnical engineering. Engineering properties of soils including their descriptions and classifications, the effect of water, soil strength and compressibility are first described in order to lead a robust geotechnical model. This model is necessary for the analysis and design of several geotechnical applications such as shallow and deep foundations, earth retaining structures and stability of slopes.

GARDEN DESIGN
The main objective of the course is to enhance the complexity of the design of the gardens, in the direction of the formation of an open feeling to the various components and in the construction of a specific technical knowledge of the subject. The opening towards a "Poetics of the Garden" is understood as an expression of a creative approach, mediated by an awareness of the uses and functions of space and integrated with a specific capacity of handling of the matter.

INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN
Interior design is an architecture interpreted from the contained space rather than from the wrap that this space delimits. The course investigates and defines those aspects which together make up the definition of housing concepts and verifies the effects in spatial configuration, seeking the relationship between good building practice and the quality of architectural form in order to create a unitary whole.Dimensions are on an human scale and the consequent phenomenon approach to the project constitutes the terms of reference upon which it is intended to base the maieutic process of communication of disciplinary knowledge.

TECHNOLOGICAL DESIGN FOR ARCHITECTURE REQUALIFICATION
The course aims at providing methodologies and instruments’ knowledge necessary in order to intervene on the architectural heritage within the framework of the technological culture, in the innovation scenario and towards full sustainability. Lost the limiting definition of the basic ‘recovery’, the ‘requalification’ integrates preservation, structural rehabilitation, maintenance and substitution of technological and architectural solutions, in relation to the functional needs, the performance levels and the relative morphologic, spatial and environmental results.

TERRITORIAL PLANNING
The course provides an examination of the problems profile in the contemporary territory and their spatial differentiation, and the consequent new planning guidelines in terms of components, spatial strategies and sequence of the construction plan. This is to identify methods and planning actions for functional, landscape and environment reorganization of different articulations of territory. The educational objective is realized in mastering the contents, processes and techniques of total and sectional planning of territory.

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
The Landscape Architecture, the design culture for the outdoor space, in its various manifestations, has recently shown interesting trends that have extended in different directions the skills of this discipline, making it a key element of reflection for the rethinking of the human habitat transformation.The course aims to provide an opening on the cognitive, theoretical and technical level of the main aspects of Landscape Architecture, in its various phases, with particular reference to the international achievements: from the park to the urban public space, to the urban and suburban landscaping work, using instruments of reading, exploration of the motivation, knowledge of natural and the use of artificial elements and the main techniques, heritage of this specific discipline.

METHODS AND INSTRUMENTS FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGICAL QUALITY CONTROL
The scope of the course is to provide the knowledge of the audit procedures, methods and instruments (such as BIM, Protocollo ITACA, LEED, etc.) in order to value in each and every phase of the process the respondance between regulatory requirements, performance standards and design solutions within the full life-cycle – LCA – of the architecture, till the certification and the monitoring during the operations of the on-going initial performances, the indoor comfort and the energy consumptions.

CONTEMPORARY PLANNING THEORIESThe course provides the knowledge about the contemporary debate on the planning in three main areas: (1) theoretical reflections on the principles and objectives at different scales (from city to urban space, and building); (2) debate on the conceptual structure and the planning processes (scenarios, design, evaluation, participation forms etc.); (3) planning and design experiences in terms of strategies and spatial solutions.The training objective is realized in the knowledge of the theoretical debate and spatial solutions of the past twenty years’ plans.

URBAN REGENERATION The course provides an examination of new outline of urban issues, objectives, strategies and spatial solutions to realize functional, figurative and environment reorganization of "weak" - fractures, marginals and low density - of the existing cities and metropolitan areas, at national and international level. This is to master the principles, actions and the processes of realisation of a project of urban regeneration in contemporary city and metropolitan area.The training objective is realized in mastering the complex addresses of new forms of recovery and regeneration of parts of the city and of the metropolitan area.