Università Roma Tre

OPEN SPACE DESIGN.
The training is divided into two parts: the first for lessons and exercises, the second for the final project.
Lessons will investigate the role of public spaces in contemporary urban transformations; will illustrate how to recognize and understand the urban landscape components and put forward diagnosis (inventive analysis). The typical elements of open space will be analyzed and described (by applying the method of decomposition for systems described in The Poetics of Gardens, cfr. Bibliography) in their mutual interrelations, focus on expressive, spatial and technical aspects. Exercises will regard the critic analysis of public urban open spaces, well known built projects that will be interpreted through the logic of relations and systems, with graphics, images and short texts.
The second part of the course is dedicated to the final project and will be held with the procedures of the laboratory in close collaboration with the teachers of the other modules. The project will regard the redevelopment of a system of public open spaces in Rome, to be brought to a unitary but variously characterized system. Open spaces are entrusted with the task of defining the quality and the formal organization of the urban settlement, improving relations with the buildings.

OPEN SPACE DESIGN.
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The course “Design of Open Spaces” deals with themes strictly related to those developed from other modules of the Laboratory of Architectural Design 3M, headed by Prof. Francesco Cellini. The teaching activities, carried out during the first semester, are organized in lectures and in project experiences.
The system of urban and peri-urban open spaces, characterized by human and natural features, represents the main theme of the course which involves different aspects of landscape. Particular importance is given to analysis, assessment and planning/design, with attention to physiographic, vegetational, historical, and visual elements of sites as well as anthropic and ecological dynamics. These represent the local identity and are capable of stimulating innovative strategies of planning and design in synergy with territorial characteristics, on both a large or a small scale.
In this way, the lectures and project experiences can help the students to develop cognitive, assessment and design skills. These are based on the understanding and construction of relationships between architectures and open spaces, between identifying features and contemporary transformations, between spatial articulation and its evolutionary dynamics.

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- Clément G. (2005), Manifesto del Terzo paesaggio, Macerata.
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- McHarg I.L., Progettare con la natura, 1989.
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- Giacomini V., Romani V. (1982), Uomini e parchi, Milano.

During the Laboratorio students are asked to develope a project within the urban context of the existing city. Attention will be payed especially to abandoned places and areas which need to be redeveloped. Students will face the complexity of the contemporary city to outline architecture soluntions to regenerate public spaces and collective areas.
The laboratorio together with design has three other subjects: City Planning, Landscape Architecture and Urban Economy.
During the design studio, students are requested to engage in a continue research of architecture solutions, able to solve issues and problems posed by the different disciplines which are part of the Laboratorio.
The design studio is organized in lectures on specific subject, design seminars and detailed discussions of the projects. The student work will be organized around a scheduled of in internal deadlines.

During lectures case study and reference book will be pointed out.

The studio concerns heterogeneous sites, intentionally assuming different solicitations and subjects to confront students and to prove their design approach and competence. Priority topics are the language of techniques; the architectural components; and realization systems.

I testi di riferimento saranno indicati durante il corso

“URBAN DESIGN HELPING ARCHITECTURE AND VICE VERSA”

The module’s aim is to promote coherence between the architectural project and the built environment’s design. The module develops detailed design approach to the local scale.

Knowledge will be imparted through lectures on:
- regeneration’s strategies of contemporary city;
- description of several regeneration’s projects;
- major concepts used in the analysis and understanding of the built environment (townscape analysis, morphology, uses, natural environment);
- description of differents masterplans and design code.

The module experiments a design’s method based on site analysis, evaluation and project referred to the local dimension.
The final work, prepared in class seminars, concerns:
- urban design analysis of the local context (urban pattern, open space and environmental issues, infrastructure and transport issues, community and social issues, existing community facilities, development issues/current initiative);
- critical understanding of people’s diverse everyday uses, problems, link and project opportunities, site analysis summary;
- strategic context framework plan and project opportunities as answer to the revealed contradictions.

Students, in investigation’s group, have to produce four outlines: two concern the urban design analysis of the local context and two describe the project through the elaboration of a masterplan, the formulation of a design code and project’s vision.
In the final examination each student presents an overview of the work which is followed by discussion on the issues raised. The module encourages student to develop a critical perspective on their own work.

- Banerjee T., Loukaitou-Sideris T., (edit. by), (2011), Companion to Urban Design, Routledge.
- Carmona, M., (2010), Public Places Urban Spaces, The Dimensions of Urban Design (Second Edition). Architectural Press.
- Gabellini, P., (2001), Tecniche urbanistiche, Carocci ed.
- Gabellini, P., (1998), La rappresentazione nel piano urbanistico, Nis ed.
- Nucci, L., (2011), Verde di prossimità e disegno urbano, Gangemi Editore, Roma.
- Nucci, L., (2004), Reti verdi e disegno della città contemporanea: la costruzione del nuovo piano di Londra, Gangemi Editore, Roma.
- Secchi, B., (2008), La città del Ventesimo Secolo, Laterza Ed., Bari.
- Campos Venuti G., Oliva F (a cura di), (2010), Città senza cultura. Intervista sull'urbanistica, Laterza Ed., Bari.
- AA VV (2013), Governo del territorio e pianificazione spaziale, città studi edizioni, Milano.

Analytical and design studies will cover:
• Drafting of elaborate analysis of the context:
- Infrastructure and local public transport network
- Ecological network and Natural Monuments
- Localization of public services of different levels
- Historical development of settlement structures
- Tipomorfologycal analysis of existing settlement structures
- Comparative analysis of the current plan forecasts (PRG, PTPR, PTPG, PTRG, protected areas)
- Reasoned summary of the design ideas offered by the current planning
• Drafting of project processing
- Comparative analysis of programmatic directions of the strategic plan
- Critical analysis of the public interest objectives, and definition of a strategic agenda
- Drafting of a general layout diagram, of the Masterplan and of the appropriate methods of intervention
- In particular, characterization of functional destinations expected and of elements related to public spaces
- Project through floor plans and render
Within the urban form some theoretical insights will cover the following topics:
• The urban innovation and change of design paradigm in the last twenty years in Italy
• The complex programs
• Characters of the plan of Rome, operations and description of the conceptual possibilities
• Environment and biodiversity, climate and energy in the new plan
• The planning of the urban landscape
• The territorial allocations, and the urban framework

Bianchetti C. (2003), Abitare la città contemporanea, Skira, Milano
Campos Venuti G. (2010), Città senza cultura. Intervista sull’urbanistica a cura di Federico Oliva, Laterza, Roma - Bari
Forman R.T.T. (2008), Urban Regions: Ecology and Planning Beyond the city, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Gabellini P. (2010), Fare urbanistica. Esperienze, comunicazione, memoria, Carocci, Roma
Gabellini P. (2001), Tecniche urbanistiche, Carocci, Roma
Lanzani A. (2003), I paesaggi italiani, Meltemi, Roma
Sassen S. (2009), Bridging the ecologies of cities and of nature, The 4th International Conference of the International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU), Amsterdam/Delft, The New Urban Question - Urbanism beyond Neo-Liberalism
Sassen S. (2009), Cities are at the center of our environmental future, in S.A.P.I.EN.S, Vol.2 / n°3 - Cities and Climate Change, http://sapiens.revues.org/index.html