Università Roma Tre

Course program

It is a laboratory of architectural design in the first year of the “Laurea Magistrale in Restauro”, a course of twelve credits, this implies a thought on how to interest and train students who have chosen the restoration to finish their studies.

For this purposes the main project to develop is in Santi Quattro Coronati in a place with strong historical value, in the center of Rome on the Celio hill in a lot adjacent to an important monument, as the paleochristian church of Santi Quattro Coronati. Today in the lot stands a building from the twenties which hosts commercial spaces in the ground floor and residences on the first floor; each student can decide to demolish the building or to keep it and relating it with the project.


The theme provides a residential shelter for the refugees recognized by UNHCR, as well as a series of complementary public services for use by refugees and local residents, in order to integrate the social function in the neighborhood and at the same time to complete the allocation of services and public spaces of the inhabitants. The place is ideal for a transformation in this sense, because there is a lack of neighborhood facilities although is in the very centre of Rome and is also densely populated.

In addition to this general theme there are other specific issues on which the laboratory emphasizes that we believe are very useful in particular to work in restoration:
- The quality of the spaces
- Materials in their technical and evocative dimension
- The costruction, as a process and as details,
- The relationship with the historical context, intended as physical context as monumental and social fabric
- Attention to thresholds and public-private indoor-outdoor

Engineering Physics

Decisive in the laboratory is the role of engineering physics, not only as plants, but also as comfort of space; it’s an entire module of fifty hours, leaded by Prof. Paolo Candidi, which took place in total sharing with teachers of architectural design. The theoretical part of the course is addresed by the search for maximum comfort through the use of passive systems mainly aimed above all minimizing energy consumption, exploring both the aspects related to air conditioning and thermohygrometric regulation. We will try, therefore, to optimize the layout of volumes and environments using shading and natural ventilation as well as the study of the building.

Activities of the course

During the course students will not work only on the final project, a series of exercises will train students

The time spent in the course consists of various activities:

- Practical exercises

- Exercises of theoretical research

- Lectures

- Collective reviews of the projects

- Revisions of specific projects

Seminar "Basic Architecture" - Seven short lessons of architecture

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Course program
Building physic, physical quantity, unit of measurement (ratio of the building with the external environment, external walls and transparent surfaces, heat, temperature, specific heat, density, energy, power)
Heat transmission (heat conduction; convection; irradiation);
Global coefficient of heat exchange and thermal insulation of a wall (adduction; thermal trasmittance, insulation material);
thermal performance of the walls (heat trasmission of external walls)
thermal load (winter and summer load, static and periodic scheme; sensible and latent heat, thermal bridge)
Psycometry (Mollier diagram, features and transformation of wet-air, enthalpy, handling of the wet-air)
Thermal comfort and Indoor air quality (energetic balance, PMV, PPD)
Thermal plant (typology, parts, handling, maintenance and plan of plants)
Lighting and comfort (unit of measurement, type of lamp, principle of light design)

Bibliografia
Manualetti fisica tecnica applicata – la trasmissione del calore (F. Bianchi, R. Carratù), Aracne, 2005
Benessere termico, acustico, luminoso, (G. Moncada Lo Giudice, L. de Santoli), CEA editrice, 1999
Progettazione di impianti tecnici, (G. Moncada Lo Giudice, L. de Santoli), MASSON, 1995
Appunti delle lezioni