Architecture

RENATO PARTENOPE

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO 3
In the studio the student will establish the draft of a residential complex of medium-sized integrated to the open space and the environment, with individual activities and seminars, through lectures and exercises. The studio integrates the elements of architectural and urban design with those more specific to the design and analysis of the green areas of the city and the territory. It is asked to the student to develop a project as a synthesis of morphological, distributional, technological and architectural solutions in construction including a degree of experimentation.

The Architectural Design Laboratory III aims to indicate a methodology capable of highlighting the operational aspects of design with particular attention to the understanding of the shape of space through the analytical modalities of representation. The "plan", the "section", the "prospect" will be interpreted as the expression and communication of the identity of the form of architecture as well as an organized system of representational conventions, historically consolidated able to anticipate and make consistent the complex world of materials that compose the space of architecture.

A basic knowledge of the history of art and architecture is necessary with particular attention to our modernity and post-modernity. Having also developed technical expertise in manual and digital drawing to address the complex problem of the representation of architecture which is believed to be the specific way to invent its forms starting from the historicity of its sign but within a strong experimental tension.

Laboratory program
From a theoretical point of view, the program is focused on the relationship between History and Design in the experience of architecture. It’s a relationship that arises in the debate and cultural reflection, as well as in the operational practice of urban transformations in Italian cities, in a form that is contradictory and difficult to understand. To investigate the relationship between History and Design, the theoretical contribution that Italian architectural culture has produced in the typological and morphological studies of architecture and the city will be critically addressed. The intermediate dimension of this "thought" will be used to identify the specific expressive categories of our discipline and to indicate those elements that archetypically define it and which cannot be altered or manipulated beyond all limits to adhere to the contemporary winning dimension of the architecture/performance. A complex thought, the typological, and full of pitfalls but also full of adventures being the type, at least in our interpretation the most advanced and experimental field of architectural research. Particular attention will be paid to the aspects related to the representation, expression and communication of values of the architecture even beyond the purely operational purposes established by the project drawings. In the didactic experience proposed, the Drawing, and the autograph one in particular, will be the specific way to materialize the thought of architecture and the way to oppose the phenomenon of regression of the hand that characterizes our era and characterizes in particular the studies that concern architecture.
A real site will be selected for the project development, but this must be "measured" by an abstract geometric matrix measuring 120x120 meters. Its positions and dimensions can be manipulated without distorting its meaning, freely interpreting it to fit the project site. The experience proposed by the Workshop encourages students to dissolve physical, concrete reality with the abstract reality that animates every composition, and to create a critical and formalized synthesis of these two figurative worlds. The project's theme is a public space equipped with one or more housing units, including collective housing (hostels, guesthouses, hotels, residences), to be located on the site and in relation to pre-existing structures.

Documents requested

1) General plan and dimensioned sections of the site project (1:500);
2) General plan (volumetric) and dimensioned sections of the settlement module (1:500);
3) Typical plans of the settlement module at the most significant altitudes (1:200);
4) Transversal and longitudinal sections of the settlement module (1:200);
5) Elevations with shadows (1:100);
6) Detail (1:50 - 1:20);
7) Perspectives and perspective sections of the internal and external space of the project;
8) Model of a segment of the project (1:500);
9) Three-dimensional model (digital model);
10) Sketchbook and preliminary studies (no less than 50 pages in A4 format).

Bibliography
- Jameson, Fredric, Il postmoderno, o la logica culturale del tardo capitalismo, Garzanti, Milano 1989.
- Partenope, Renato, Architettura in bianco e nero, Iiriti ed., Reggio Calabria 2019.
- Purini, Franco, Discorso sull’Architettura. Cinque itinerari nell’arte del costruire, Marsilio Editori in Venezia, 2022.
- Valery Paul, Tre dialoghi (Eupalinos o l'Architetto), Einaudi, Milano, 1990.
- Philip Kerr, Gabbia d’Acciaio, Rizzoli, Milano, 1996

Other references will be suggested during the experience of the Laboratory.

Method of examination
The evaluation will be carried out on the contents and the quality of the works produced inside and outside the Laboratory hours. The practical activities carried out and documented (drawings, sketches, study models, etc.), the acquired knowledge of the theoretical themes addressed in the lessons and in the study of the recommended books will be evaluated.
- Oral examination
- Assessment of project

1) General plan of the state of fact and of the project (1: 1000);
2) Sections and profiles listed on the status of fact and project (1: 500);
3) Project plans at different levels (1: 200);
4) Cross-sectional and longitudinal design sections (1: 200);
5) Elevations with shadows (1: 200);
6) Detail (1:50 - 1:20);
7) Perspectives and perspective sections of internal and external space;
8) Model of the project (1: 200);
9) Three-dimensional model (digital model);
10) Sketchbook of sketches and preliminary studies (not less than 50 pages form A4)

Mandatory. Participation in the Laboratory activities documented by the development of the project will determine the possibility of taking the exam.

Method of examination
The evaluation will be carried out on the contents and the quality of the works produced inside and outside the Laboratory hours. The practical activities carried out and documented (drawings, sketches, study models, etc.), the acquired knowledge of the theoretical themes addressed in the lessons and in the study of the recommended books will be evaluated.
- Oral test: verification of understanding of the topics offered by the proposed bibliography.
- Evaluation of the documents: verification of the completeness of the representation of the project

The questions will address the theoretical topics covered. The practical development of the project, through drawings and revisions, will be essential for the final evaluation of each student's contribution to the laboratory activities.