Università Roma Tre

The Architectural Design Laboratory aims to study the city as a complex system of built environments, green spaces, infrastructural connections, historical-archaeological remains. In the case of Rome, this complexity takes on a particular value, given by the singularity and identity of its topographical, environmental and historical-architectural condition. This aspect is perceived with great clarity in the eastern quadrant of the city, where the quality and visual value of the open spaces is continually confronted with the persistence of signs of history, ancient paths, fragments of a monumental past, elements of the post-industrial landscape and compact city neighborhoods.
The Laboratory will be mainly applied on the routes of the Appia, Tuscolana, Casilina Vecchia, Mandrione, bearing in mind the imposing endowment of parks and historical-archaeological and environmental survivals, the Parco dell’Appia Antica, Tor Fiscale and Caffarella. With this approach, the collective project of the Laboratory can be configured as a unitary “Linear Project”, in which the design experiments will be applied from the small scale of the service spaces up to the urban dimension; the projects should outline a unitary scenario, keeping at the center the idea of public space and a strong contextual anchoring.

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Review of thermal sciences. Main characteristics of passive systems. Elements of psychrometry. Thermal behavior of the structures. Thermal insulating materials. Determination of energy requirements for air conditioning of buildings. Types of air-conditioning systems, selection criteria for the various types. Integrated design of the building-plant system. Renewable energy production and use systems: outline. Elements of acoustics and lighting technology. Notes on energy saving. Reference regulations.

Heat and Mass Transfer, Yunus A. Çengel.