ARCHITECTURAL TECHNOLOGY II

Course objectives

Objective of course is to provide methodologies and critical tools necessary for understanding issues of Architecture Technology with particular reference to building feasibility, so that there is a consistent operational continuity between decision-making phase of design choices and building "technical realization" phase. Difficulties of obtaining and managing complete informations on technologies, that are continuously placed on the market, the difficulty of knowing in depth the conditions that constrain and determine the way of carrying out building works, often hinder a systemic vision of relationships that exist between materials and construction technologies. In the light of these assumptions, the course aims to focus attention on issues to ensure processing of technological culture, oriented towards skills in reading, controlling and managing tools oriented to design technological choices and to provide a correct approach within decision-making process. Knowledge and understanding At the end of course, student has learned knowledge and understanding, as well as skills that allow supporting, from a theoretical-methodological point of view, complex technological design of building. Students have to acquire an adequate and specific knowledge of tools, systems and techniques used to work on architectural environment, also through methods to verify technological-environmental, morpho-typological and functional aspects. Assessment of knowledge will be carried out through in progress experimentation tests and final examination test. Applying knowledge and understanding Student has to demonstrate mastery of an integrated management and analytical-design approach to finalise knowledge learned, to solve complex problems related to design process, technical information management and ability to choose elements, systems and components, to improve qualities resulting from various compatible actions within operational strategies. In particular, student is able to experiment and assess integrated and multi-scale interventions, using methods, techniques and tools learned. These skills will be verified through design experimentation activities aimed at developing capacity for individual and group approach to application and professional problems. Making judgements Student has to demonstrate ability to learn, evaluate and revise knowledge and experiences in order to form an independent and original judgment. In particular, student should be adopting skills in autonomous project management of conscious and compatible intervention, with the aim of detailing innovative, compatible and sustainable solutions. Achievement of these critical and autonomous judgement skills will be learned during experimental activities through simulations in different case studies. Communication skills Students will have to demonstrate the ability in technical communication of theoretical, methodological and design competence, using advanced and multimedia tools for representation, and technical information management and verbal and written infographic language. Achievement of these skills will be learned during experimental activities, which ensure full control of specific expressive and illustrative skills. Learning skills Students have to demonstrate a full capacity for autonomous knowledge process, which will allow them to update and increase skills in the field of environmental technological design. Acquisition of these skills will take place through specific theoretical contributions given during the course, aimed at broadening framework of skills to access innovative methodologies, tools and applications and through constant participation in experimental activities, dialectical field of knowledge learned assessment. Assessment of learning skills will take place, above all, in exam test finalised to highlight autonomy in knowledge-learned management.

Channel 1
SERENA BAIANI Lecturers' profile

Program - Frequency - Exams

Course program
Objective of the course is “Constructing Architecture”. This is the position of architects which makes it possible to forge links between the planning of a project and its realisation, the competence to create coherence regarding content and subject. During the planning of a project this is reflected in the clarification and development of a design objective, and in the physical implementation becoming increasingly more clearly defined. The language of architetcture has a material vocabulary (modules), a constructive grammar (elements) and a structural syntax (structures). They are the fundamental prerequisites, a kind of “mechanics of architecture”. This also includes the technical and structural basics which establish a set of rules and regulations of construction principles and know-how that can be learned and which are wholly independent of any particular design or construction project. Although these tools are logical in themselves they remain fragmentary, unrelated and therefore “senseless” until they are incorporated into a project. Students could developed independent establishment of basic premises, critical analysis and intensive research, advancing hypotheses and working out syntheses.
Prerequisites
Knowledge of materials, elements and technologies for building construction, as set out in Technology of Architecture 1 Programme.
Books
- Deplazes A. (ed) (2005). Constructing Architecture. Materials, Processes, Structures. Berlin: Birkhäuser. - Ching F.D.K. (ed) (2008). Building Construction Illustrated. Hoboken: Wiley.
Teaching mode
Course is articulated in lessons and workshop
Frequency
Course is organized in assessed graphic workshop and oral presentations (work in progress). So the exam is a discussion of final works. For non present students the exam is a graphic and oral test on the same program.
Exam mode
Graphic tests during semester Final exam: graphic and oral
Bibliography
- Ching F.D.K. (ed) (2008). Building Construction Illustrated. Hoboken: Wiley. - Deplazes A. (ed) (2005). Constructing Architecture. Materials, Processes, Structures. Berlin: Birkhäuser.
Lesson mode
Course is articulated in lessons and workshop
Channel 2
GIADA ROMANO Lecturers' profile

Program - Frequency - Exams

Course program
The Course of Study is divided into lectures, organized in seminars, on two specific areas: a. Process, design and technological system; technical language and design standards _on building process issues, the exigency/performance approach and design development techniques, aimed at resuming some aspects developed in the Technology of Architecture I Course (taught in the first year); b. Techniques, systems and products; environmental and life cycle approach to technological design _on building systems, components and traditional and evolved products. The seminars will be structured according to the teaching program, which includes the presentation and discussion of the following topics: _The stages of the construction process: planning, design, construction, management. The actors in the construction process. _Preliminary, final and executive construction design. _The standards for the graphic representation of projects. Graphic conventions. _The requirements/performance system and building quality. The project from requirements to performance. Definitions of needs, requirements and performance. Construction requirements. _The environmental system. Environmental requirements and performance. Definitions of environmental unit and spatial element. Hints on the design of spatial elements. _Introduction to the principles of bioclimatic architecture. _The technological system. The technological classification according to UNI 8290. _Bearing structure (classification of elements, requirements, models and functional layers): _Foundation structure: continuous and discontinuous surface foundations; deep foundations; _Elevation structure: continuous and discontinuous. Masonry load-bearing wall elevation structures. Reinforced concrete, steel and wooden structures; _Containment structures. _Closure (classification of elements, requirements, models and functional layers): _Vertical closure: opaque vertical perimeter walls and vertical exterior fixtures; _Horizontal lower closure and on exterior spaces: ground floors and horizontal fixtures; _Upper closure: flat roofs; sloping roofs (requirements; functional layers, functional models). _Interior partition (classification of elements, requirements, models and functional layers): _Vertical interior partition: vertical interior walls; vertical interior fixtures; protective elements; _Horizontal interior partition: attics; mezzanines; horizontal interior fixtures; _Sloping interior partition: stairs and ramps; classification and composition of stairs. _The exterior partition (classification of elements, requirements, models and functional layers): _Vertical exterior partition: protective elements; separating elements; _Horizontal exterior partition: balconies; loggias and walkways; exterior ramps. At the same time, the students are required to deepen the topics covered in the seminars through the critical analysis of an existing case study (from scale 1:200 to scale 1:50) and the drafting of design experimentation from construction graphic drawings referring to the main technological units of the building system (in scale 1:50 and 1:20). In addition the exercise includes technical research of specific components and products to support the drafting of the required graphic drawings and systematization of technical information in a technology catalogue (to be collected throughout the semester and presented in the form of data sheets of systems, products, materials, assembly systems and installation diagrams, performance specifications, certificates, etc.).
Prerequisites
Although no propaedeutic is formally provided, "building design," and particularly "technological design of the building", is a highly interdisciplinary subject that makes prior knowledge of other disciplines such as Technology of Architecture I, Drawing, Mechanics of Structures and Construction Science. The theoretical-methodological and instrumental-applicative knowledge of the topics covered in the previously exposed courses carried out between years I and II and the ability to freehand, technical drawing, including through the use of 2D graphics and modelling software, are fundamental prerequisites for an adequate course aimed at the knowledge, critical analysis, design and redevelopment of any building organism.
Books
• Deplazes A. (ed) (2005). Constructing Architecture. Materials, Processes, Structures. Berlin: Birkhäuser; • Ching F.D.K. (ed) (2008). Building Construction Illustrated. Hoboken: Wiley.
Frequency
The course does not have mandatory attendance, but given the nature of the content, attendance is strongly recommended.
Exam mode
The evaluation of learning will focus on the assessment of expected learning outcomes, in line with what is defined in the specific section. For attending students: verification of the knowledge acquired will take place through a final oral interview, starting from the design experimentation carried out and the graphic works required for the exam, reviewed during the entire semester, produced in the classroom during the hours of the Course, with any in-depth studies resulting from individual work at home. The final colloquium will, therefore, cover the entire course program, starting with the discussion of the boards from the design experimentation carried out during the semester and highlighting, for the latter, the contribution of individual students to the collective work. As part of the oral interview, freehand sketches and construction details may be required to support the oral exposition. For non-attending students: Verification of the knowledge acquired will take place through a written test and an oral interview, both conducted on the same examination day. The oral interview will cover the entire course syllabus, starting with the discussion and critical analysis of the graphic works prepared for the written test and the construction details, which will be produced freehand in ex-tempore mode. Additional sketches and construction details may be requested as part of the oral interview to support the oral exposition. In both cases of attending and non-attending students, in order to assess the degree of students' achievement of the expected learning outcomes, evaluation criteria on content knowledge, clarity of exposition and the ability to critically analyse, mastery of technical language and graphical ability will be used for the final examination. The grade will be expressed in thirtieths from 18/30 to 30/30 with honours, depending on the level of achievement of the indicated acquired knowledge, skills and abilities, according to the following grading scheme: _Excellent: excellent knowledge of course content; excellent ability in the exposition of topics, graphic representation and use of technical language; excellent ability in the application of acquired knowledge for typological, material and technical-constructive choices necessary for the design and redevelopment of a building organism in the face of specific questions; excellent ability to judge, synthetic-assessment analysis of data related to the functional, technological and performance characteristics of a building organism; excellent ability to interpret and apply technical regulations. _Good: good level of knowledge of course content; good ability in the exposition of topics, graphic representation and use of technical language; good ability in the application of acquired knowledge for typological, material and technical-constructive choices necessary for the design and redevelopment of a building organism in the face of specific questions. _Discreet: fair level of knowledge of course content; fair ability in exposition of topics, graphic representation and use of technical language; fair ability in application of acquired knowledge for typological, material and technical-constructive choices necessary for the design and upgrading of a building organism in the face of specific questions. _Sufficient: Sufficient level of knowledge of course content; Sufficient skills in exposition of topics, graphic representation and use of technical language; Sufficient ability in the application of acquired knowledge for typological, material and technical-constructive choices necessary for the design and redevelopment of a building organism in the face of specific questions. _Insufficient: Lack of sufficient knowledge of topics covered and sufficient ability to apply acquired knowledge to concrete cases.
Bibliography
• Deplazes A. (ed) (2005). Constructing Architecture. Materials, Processes, Structures. Berlin: Birkhäuser; • Ching F.D.K. (ed) (2008). Building Construction Illustrated. Hoboken: Wiley.
Lesson mode
The course will be conducted entirely in Italian. Lectures will be delivered in a traditional in-person classroom setting, also integrating the two channels. During the semester, exercises aimed at the production of graphic work required for the exam will be proposed, revised throughout the semester, and produced in the classroom during lecture hours, with potential additional work carried out individually at home. Two days of joint plenary review sessions will be scheduled with contributions from both instructors to facilitate the exchange of information between working groups and to accustom students to assessment by a mixed committee (including both internal and external members). If required or expressly requested for organizational and institutional reasons by the Faculty, University Authorities, or due to force majeure, lectures will be delivered online via the Google Meet platform. E-learning Sapienza and Google Classroom will be used as supporting platforms for teaching.
  • Lesson code1026605
  • Academic year2024/2025
  • CourseArchitectural Sciences
  • CurriculumSingle curriculum
  • Year3rd year
  • Semester2nd semester
  • SSDICAR/12
  • CFU6
  • Subject areaDiscipline tecnologiche per l'architettura e la produzione edilizia