Università Roma Tre

The second part of the course involves the development of a residential architecture project.
This architecure will be designed in a non-contextualised lot, whose characteristics will be defined by the teacher and will constitute the application of concepts and notions settled in the first part of the teaching.
In particular, the architecture to be designed is a residence on the lake for the artist and designer Bruno Munari.
The residence will have a total area of ​​about 245 square meters and must rise on a slightly steep lot of dimensions of 20 x 40 meters.

B. Zevi, Saper vedere l'architettura. Saggio sull'interpretazione spaziale dell'architettura, Torino, Einaudi, 1953.
L. Quaroni, Progettare un edificio. Otto lezioni di Architettura, Milano, Mazzotta, 1977.
P.O. Rossi, La costruzione del progetto architettonico, Bari, Editori Laterza, 1996.
H.Hertzberger, Lezioni di architettura, Bari, Editori Laterza, 1996.
L. Altarelli et al., Forme della composizione, Roma, Kappa, 1997.
G. Ponti, Amate l’architettura, Genova, Vitali e Ghianda, 1957, (ristampa in commercio: Milano, CUSL, 2004).

In the second semester, the engagement is 100 hours and addresses the design theme of a residence for five artists, which proposes a specific dwelling for this small temporary community, the period in the residence is six months. The project area is an agricultural land in the upper Lazio, near the small village of Chia in the province of Viterbo, near some important historic and natural presences. The aim is to create a storytelling and references around the project theme so that the student can elaborate a specific proposal as a result of his suggestions rather than a neutral and impersonal solution. This is in the belief that learning is greater if accompanied by a personal and interpretative working idea.

The contents of the course are proposed and verified through frontal lessons, exercises, educational visits, individual and collective reviews. The final exam evaluation takes into account all the activities of the student during the year, the quality of the final project is obviously crucial in the award of the vote itself. All work is done by hand, it is not allowed to use C.a.d.

The educational sequence is based on a method of teaching the architectural composition based on the following steps:

- Elaboration of an "architectural concept" using a model, inspired by a relative lesson in which architectural concepts at the base of illustrious works in the field of architecture and contemporary art are showed and explained.

- Proposing a "way of living" through an image, an author's photograph or a work of art that clearly expresses this content.

- Elaboration of a "settlement principle" that is aware of typological choices related to the residential theme, in strong symbiosis with the context in which the project is elaborated, thus making clear choices in relation to the soil and to the other natural elements of the place.

- A conscious choice of a "constructive system" in relation to the previous elaborations, with particular attention to the role of the structural system to be adopted: masonry or system of linear elements, and its relation to non-bearing elements, such as internal infill panels and partitions. This passage also defines the materials the project is equipped with and with which the language of architecture is defined.

- Elaboration of a "correct representation" of the project in orthogonal projections, consistent with canonical graphic codes but also with the design choices adopted.

Handbooks

A. Desplazes, Constructing architecture, materials processes structures, a handbook, Basel, 2005
E. Neufert, Enciclopedia pratica per progettare e costruire,
F. Cellini, Manualetto, Norme tecniche, costruttive e grafiche per lo svolgimento di una esercitazione progettuale sul tema della casa unifamiliare, Palermo, 1991
A.Zimmermann, Constructing landscape : materials, techniques, structural components Basel, 2011

The lectures of the second semester will be dedicated to the themes connected with the development of the project to stimulate to reflections and critical choices: the single family home with recurring aspects and historical antecedents; the characteristics of the place and the possible influences on the project; the relationship between sun and architecture; the relationship with the ground; the relationship between spatial structure and load-bearing structure. The lessons will be alternated with moments of collective and individual discussion on the project.

Bruno Zevi, Saper vedere l’architettura. Saggio sull’interpretazione spaziale dell’architettura, Einaudi, Torino 1948 Gio Ponti, Amate l’architettura. L’architettura è un cristallo, Rizzoli, Milano 2015 [1° ed. 1957]
Robert Venturi, Complessità e contraddizione nell’architettura, Dedalo, Roma 1980 [1° ed. Complexity and contradiction in architecture, 1966] Gaston Bachelard, La poetica dello spazio, Dedalo, Bari 1975
Ludovico Quaroni, Progettare un edificio. Otto lezioni di architettura, Kappa, Roma 2001 [1° ed. 1977] Franco Purini, L’architettura didattica, Gangemi, Reggio Calabria 1980
Christian Norberg-Schulz, Il significato nell'architettura occidentale, Electa, Milano 1994 Franco Purini, Comporre l’architettura, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2000
Iñaki Ábalos, Il buon abitare. Pensare le case della modernità, Cristian Marinotti Edizioni, Milano, 2009 Francesco Venezia, Che cos’è l’architettura. Lezioni, conferenze e un intervento, Electa, Milano 2011

Francesco Cellini, Manualetto. Norme tecniche, costruttive e grafiche per lo svolgimento di una esercitazione progettuale sul tema della casa unifamiliare, Cittàstudi, Milano 1998 *
Luca Zevi, Il nuovissimo manuale dell'architetto, Mancosu, Roma 2003 *