Building engineering and architecture

MARIA ARGENTI

The main objectives of the Course of Architectural Design Composition 3 (fourth year, 12 cfu) are the development in the student of coherent and autonomous design capabilities. This means the acquisition of the knowledge of theories, methods and languages of contemporary architecture.If the first objective can be accomplished through the activities that take place in the lab, the second one is developed during the lessons, intended to enlarge the knowledge of architectural culture, so to correctly orientate the design activities.

By the end of the ACA3 course, students should have acquired analytical, interpretative, and design skills and an awareness of:
- the importance of the relationship between context and design
- the concepts of urban morphology and housing typology and their close connection
- knowledge of different settlement types and the possibilities for social housing
- practical experience in the distribution and composition of interior spaces
- the importance of common, shared, and intergenerational spaces
- the importance of collective services and the possibilities for openness to the neighborhood

• All lessons support the development of the project and the contents will be verified during the exam.
  Attendance is therefore required.FEBRUARY:
  
  Course
  presentation, introduction to the topics, illustration of the project area.
  
  Site visit with students. Interpretative
  reading of the project area and hypotheses.
  
  Suburbs,
  housing, and social service.
  
  Examples
  of urban reconnections.
  
   
  
  MARCH:
  
  Lessons
  on social housing, different types of aggregation.
  
  Paradigmatic
  examples and variations on the type.
  
  Architecture
  for living between modern and contemporary
  
   
  
  APRIL:
  Methods of composition and architectural strategie.
  
  Living
  space and shared space.
  
  Models of shared living.
  
  Co-housing. Student housing. Models
  of communal living.
  
  Paradigmatic
  examples and variations on the type.
  
   
  
  MAY:
  
  Methods
  of composition and urban strategies.
  
  Designing
  neighborhood services.
  
  From
  small to large scale.
  
  Designing
  open spaces.