Architecture

The current organization of the U.E. in the second semester of the third year of studies it provides the fundamental teaching of the "Technological Design Studio", examination of the disciplinary area of "Technology of Architecture". It is configured as an experience in the application design of systems and construction elements to a building, considered as a "system" in its entirety and in its individual parts, organized and integrated in a holistic way. Furthermore, the Laboratory introduces the themes of energy efficiency of the architectural project, typical of the "technological environmental" study path. Particular attention will be paid to the criteria, methods and tools aimed at the integrated design of design solutions aimed at improving the functionality / usability, safety, comfort, flexibility, environmental sustainability of the intervention. The design elaboration is organized by definition levels progressively aimed at the in-depth analysis of the technological and constructive solutions. In the Studio, the in-depth study of the technological-constructive aspects of an architectural artefact is aimed at understanding and experimenting with the correct use of technological systems, innovative components and materials and energy saving techniques and the improvement of bioclimatic comfort. The Studio places the project at the center of the teaching activity; for this reason the theoretical and the application type activities are conceived as integrated and synchronic during the semester. In particular, the theoretical knowledge concerns the conception of the construction systems and the relative elements, according to performance logic aimed at the quality of the architectural artefact, which are reflected in the design stage in the use of traditional and / or innovative technologies, in relation to the principles of sustainability environmental.

At the beginning of the Studio the student will have to have acquired knowledge and understanding, as well as skills that will support, from a theoretical-methodological point of view, the deployment of technological strategies learned in technology courses 1 and 2. The student also must have knowledge and understanding, aimed at solving problems related to the appropriate practice of material processes and technologies that oversee the executive project in architecture.

After each lesson, handouts in .pdf format are uploaded to the e-learning platform. Battisti, A. (2012), Technologies for Small Buildings, Alinea Editrice, Firenze; Campioli, A., Lavagna, M. (2013), Tecniche e architettura, CittàStudi, Novara; Persiani S., Battisti A. (2015). Componenti Innovativi in Argilla per l'Architettura Sostenibile: Elementi Massivi a Prestazioni Migliorate. p.1-167, Edizioni Accademiche Italiane; Tucci F. (2014), Involucro, Clima, Energia. Qualità bioclimatica ed efficienza energetica in architettura nel progetto tecnologico ambientale della pelle degli edifici, Altralinea, Firenze.

According to the regulations, students are required to attend and actively participate in laboratory activities (lectures and practicals). Structured around a calendar, the laboratory includes 10 lectures and 4 practicals per semester. At the end of the course, students must produce 5 tables in vertical A1 format (4 in groups of 3 and one individual table).

Attendance is mandatory. Attendance will be checked by signing in and out.

At the end of the course the student will have to demonstrate the ability to acquire knowledge and experience, to evaluate them and to re-elaborate them for the purpose of forming an independent and original judgment. In particular, the student must demonstrate skills in the autonomous management of the necessary consideration and integration of the different technological and environmental factors interacting in the same formulation of the urban regeneration project program, the preventive evaluation of the intrinsic effects, direct and indirect, connected to the transformation, deriving from the processes of infrastructure / construction, in order to achieve,the detailed project of intervention, with the aim of returning technologically innovative and environmentally sustainable solutions.