Università Roma Tre

Students (individual or in groups of two) will be involved in the project of a small building - spaces for students with exhibition, study and refreshment functions - in the former slaughterhouse in Testaccio. A small building of this type appears particularly well qualified to experience the first approach to a complex building, for its aesthetic and functional constraints, for the presence of different uses, and for his close relationship with public space. From this point of view, locating in the former slaughterhouse is focusing on familiarity that students have with the place, in order to implement the project with the experience already acquired in terms of measures and use of space, as well as relationships with the urban context.
We will alternate lectures, focus upon individual design aspects, laboratory work, exercises on specific issues, with the aim to advance the student's architectural skills and the representation / presentation of their ideas. There will be periodic connections and shared experiences with the two parallel courses.

- Patricia Cummings Loud, Louis I. Kahn. I musei, Electa, Milano 1997.
- Giovanni Longobardi, Musei. Manuale di progettazione, Mancosu, Roma 2007.

The class proposes the Design of a building hosting integrated Laboratories for the Department of Architecture within the complex of the former slaughterhouse of Rome (Mattatoio), today transformed as urban Campus hosting aside the University public museums and cultural institutions targeted mostly at young people and open to the lively neighborhood of Testaccio. The building is proposed as replacement of the current Pavilion n.14, with the possibility to fully substitute it or alternatively to preserve and integrate some parts. In a second step, the design is enlarged to the open area that mediates between the complex and the city, proposing to the students to face the topics of the open space design and of the solution of a longstanding urban marginal area by fully exploiting its strong potential while preserving at the same time the privacy of the Campus.

F. Cellini, Manualetto. Norme tecniche, costruttive e grafiche per lo svolgimento di una esercitazione sul tema della casa unifamiliare, Città Studi, Milano, 1991
F. Venezia, Le opere, gli scritti, la critica, Electa, Venezia, 1998
K. Frampton, Tettonica e architettura. Poetica della forma architettonica nel XIX e XX secolo. Skira, Milano, 2005

The Studio offers students the tools to tackle a medium-sized and complex project, paying particular attention to relations with the urban context and the public dimension of architecture. The theme consists in the design of a Testaccio Civic Center, which involves the combination of spaces intended for temporary exhibitions, a small museum in the neighborhood, reception and information spaces, rooms for conferences, shows and projections, a study center with a library for the Testaccio Urban Archive, offices and services.

K. Frampton, Tettonica e architettura. Poetica della forma architettonica nel XIX e XX secolo, Skira, Milano 1999
R. Moneo, Inquietudine teorica e strategia progettuale nell’opera di otto architetti contemporanei, Electa, Milano 2005
F. Venezia, Che cos’è l’architettura. Lezioni, conferenze e un intervento, Electa, Milano 2011