Course program
The course examines the contents of Environmental Design and the Technological Culture of Architecture, an area of knowledge relating to the theoretical principles and operational practices necessary to control the technical and constructive aspects of building systems. The scientific-disciplinary contents concern theories, tools and methods, aimed at an experimental architecture at different scales, based on the evolution of settlement use, on the constructive and environmental conception, as well as on the techniques of transformation and maintenance of the built environment with explicit reference to design approaches and strategies useful for balancing the complex relationship between man, environment and technology.
The main goal of the course is to provide the knowledge to control the technological and environmental design, and the construction and the management process of architecture, highlighting the dialectic between the environmental setting of the project, technical choices and expressive purposes of architecture, through the in-depth study and application of methods, tools and techniques of "integrated design", understood as a unitary design process capable of managing the many specialisms of contemporary design.
Prerequisites
It is necessary to have taken the second year Architecture Technology II exam.
It is strongly discouraged to attend the laboratory without having already acquired the concepts and methodologies of the project objectives of the second year.
Books
Cangelli E., Conteduca M. (2023) The Modernist Burden. Future perspectives for the renewal of the public housing heritage. Designing Quartaccio, Sapienza Università Editrice, Roma, ISBN 978-88-937-72815 [open access https://www.editricesapienza.it/book/8648]
_ Documentation
All information, materials and documentation relating to the Laboratory will be available on the Sapienza e-learning site http://elearning.uniroma1.it which can be accessed online after registering for the course.
Teaching mode
_ Organization of the course
The course includes ex-cathedra lessons and laboratory activities in seminar form.
The laboratory activity involves two phases.
During the first phase, each group will be assigned a project for a residential building to be analyzed from a technological and design point of view to highlight its potential and criticality from a typological, morphological, technological, constructive, bioclimatic, energetic and environmental point of view.
The second phase, in groups of 3 students, is aimed at developing the design idea down to a detailed scale.
The laboratory activities in the classroom will concern the application theme. Students will have to carry out the planned work in the classroom, so each student will have with them the tools to draw, sketch paper, pencils and markers, and with the assistance of the teachers, students will have to carry out the theme, even with their own laptop, to setting up the documents of the intermediate deliveries and of the final exam.
The laboratory foresees a series of evaluation moments - Critique - organized according to the model of the public presentation by a projection of slides according to the PechaKucha model, the delivery of drawings, sketches and study models.
All information, materials and documentation relating to the course will be available on the Sapienza e-learning site 2 http://elearning.uniroma1.it which can be accessed online after registering for the course.
_ Methods of the teaching activity
The course is organized in such a way as to create a continuous exchange between theoretical and practical aspects relating to the discipline. To this end, a series of ex-cathedra lessons are planned which is accompanied by the development of a technological and design theme, useful for the application and verification of the knowledge acquired by the student about the topics covered.
The development of the technological and design theme, conducted under the supervision of the teacher, constitutes a fundamental part of the course.
During the semester there will be moments of compulsory intermediate verification, students must meet the Critiques relating to the project being developed by presenting its contents and producing project documents relating to the various stages of progress. These Critiques may be open to external experts to facilitate the exchange and study of the topics covered.
Frequency
Attendance in the Laboratory is compulsory for 70% of the lessons scheduled in the calendar.
Exam mode
The course is organised in such a way that there is a constant exchange between theoretical and practical aspects of the discipline. To this end, a series of lessons is planned, accompanied by the development of a technological and design theme useful for the application and verification of the knowledge acquired by the students in relation to the topics covered.
The development of the technological and design theme, which takes place under the supervision of the teachers, is an essential part of the course.
During the semester, there are compulsory mid-term reviews (Critique) in which students must critique the project to be developed by presenting its content and producing project documents on the different stages of progress. These Critiques can be opened up to external experts to encourage exchange and in-depth analysis of the topics covered.
_ Exam' deliveries
During the course and for the final exam, students study:
to. Project' drawings from the urban scale to that of architectural detail
B. slides and short videos for the concise communication of the various stages of progress and the final project
C. physical study models and plastic models of the final project.
Bibliography
_ Introduction to the Theme of the year | Politics Sociology town planning
Cangelli, Covid-democrazia per abitare Roma. In Roma come stai? Quodlibet 2021
Ferrarotti, Macioti, Periferie da Problema a Risorsa, Sandro Teti Editore, 2009
I Quaderni #02, Roma città fai da te, giornale on line di urbanistica, maggio agosto 2013
Morassut, Roma Capitale 2.0, Imprimatur editore, 2014
Pietrolucci, Verso la realizzazione delle microcittà di Roma, Skira, 2016
_ Technological and Environmental Design | Urban fabric and Buildings
Arbizzani, Edifici e servizi residenziali per la formazione, Maggioli Editore 2023
Arbizzani, Progettazione tecnologica dell’architettura. Processo, Progetto, Costruzione, Maggioli Editore 2021
Cangelli, Paolella, Il progetto ambientale degli edifici, Alinea 2001
Cangelli, Climate Change: New Ways to Inhabit the Earth, in Technological Imagination in the Green and Digital Transition, Springer 2023
Cangelli, Daglio, Percorsi di sperimentazione tecnologica e tipologica per l'edilizia residenziale pubblica. In Architettura e Tecnologia per l’abitare, Maggioli Editore 2021
Cappelli, Guallart, Self Sufficient City, Actar, 2010
Deplazes, Constructing Architecture. Materials Processes Structures. A Handbook, Birkhäuser, 2005
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Dierna, Orlandi, Buone pratiche per il quartiere ecologico, Alinea, 2005
Duany, Coyle, Sustainable and Resilient Communities, John Wiley & Sons, 2011
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Ratti, Smart City, Smart Citizen, Egea, 2013
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Schittich, Architettura Solare, Detail, 2006
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