Università Roma Tre

Lessons will concern the typological and formal analysis of buildings related for dimension and function with the theme of the year. They will also investigate the urban context and the landscape of the site, the problems of construction and of architectural language, clarifying interdependencies and mutual coherences between these questions.
The teaching modules will study issues related to the structural component and the economic evaluation of building costs. The design theme is the development of a project of a little cultural center for the Malafede neighborhood, an area of one of the recent suburbs in south-west Rome.
A particular attention will be dedicated to the connections that the project will establish with the physical and environmental context.

The bibliography will be suggested during the course.

The module aims to integrate the issues of the evaluation examining some specific subject, according with the recent developments of the discipline. The assessment becomes a part of the design process, providing logical and methodological support and becoming an active component in the construction of the design. The evaluation, therefore, becomes a contribution to the implementation of the preferred solution in relation to context, to the actors involved in the process, and to feasibility, taking into account the numerous variables (socio-economic, environmental, financial, aesthetic, cultural, etc.). The module deals with the methods and techniques of project evaluation according to different approaches (financial, economic, multidimensional); finally, the module introduces methodologies that enable the assessment of the effects and impacts perceived by the community.
Specifically, the module deals with:
A brief summary of appraisal basics: appraisals principles and methods. Basics of international appraisal procedures.
Methods and techniques of projects evaluation: financial methods (Investment Analysis), cash flows and measures of investment performance, project financing, economic methods (Cost-Benefit Analysis), multidimensional methods, Multicriteria Analysis (among which Electre methods, Dominant Regime Methods, Analytic Hierarchy Process, etc.) Community Impact Evaluation, direct and Deliberative methods to evaluate impact and effect perceived by community.

Appraisal
C. Forte, B. de' Rossi, "Principi di economia ed estimo", Etas Libri, Milano 1979.
A. Realfonzo "Teoria e metodo dell'estimo urbano", Carocci, Roma, 1994.
M. Polelli, "Nuovo trattato di estimo'', Maggior, Rimini, 2008.
Methods and techniques of projects evaluation
Miccoli S., "La valutazione nel progetto di restauro", in Carbonara G. (diretto da), "Trattato di Restauro architettonico", UTET, Torino, 1996.
Nijkamp P., Rietveld P., Voogd H., "Multicriteria evaluation in physical planning", North Holland Pubi. Amsterdam/New York.
Handsout provided during the module.