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 commitment is 100 hours and the design theme is addressed, relating to a residence for eight refugees for whom to design a residence that proposes a specific way of living for this small temporary community, the guests' stay is six months. The project area is an agricultural land in Ventotene, near the small town and some important historical and natural presences. The goal is to create a story and references around the project theme, so that the student can develop a specific proposal and the fruit 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 idea of ​​work.

The course contents are proposed and verified through lectures, exercises, educational visits, individual and collective reviews. The final exam mark takes into account all the activities carried out by the student during the year, the quality of the final project is obviously crucial in assigning the mark itself. All processing of the work is done by hand, the use of the C.A.d.

The didactic path is traced according to a method of teaching architectural composition based on the following steps:

- Elaboration of an "architectural concept" by means of a model, inspired by a relative lesson in which the architectural concepts underlying illustrious works are shown and told, in the field of architecture and contemporary art.

- Proposition of a "way of living" through an image, an author's photograph or a work of art that clearly express 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 other natural elements of the place.

- Proposal for a "generating section" on a scale of 1: 100 with which to investigate the type of space to be proposed in relation to the theme and the place, focusing in particular on the elements: light, soil, spatial thresholds.

- Proposal for a "regulatory plan" that regulates the program in a specific typology and in a clear compositional structure, focusing in particular on the elements: proportions, quality of accommodation, distribution, space organization modules.

- Conscious choice of a "construction 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 relationship with non-load-bearing elements, such as infill and internal dividers. This passage also defines the materials with which the project is endowed and with which the language of architecture is defined.

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

L. BENEVOLO, Introduzione all’architettura, Bari 1960

G. FANELLI, R. GARGIANI, Il principio del rivestimento, Bari 1994

K. FRAMPTON, Tettonica e architettura, Milano 2000

H. HERTZBERGER, Lessons for students in architecture, Rotterdam 1991

LE CORBUSIER, Verso un architettura, Milano 1973

LE CORBUSIER, Une petite maison, Reggio Calabria 2004

M. MANIERI ELIA, Architettura e mentalità dal Classico al Neoclassico, Bari 1989

L. MIES VAN DER ROHE, Gli scritti e le parole, Milano 2010

L. QUARONI, Progettare un edificio, otto lezioni di architettura, Roma 1977

B. RUDOFSKY, Architecture without architects, New York 1964

F. VENEZIA, Che cos’è l’architettura, Milano 2011

J. UTZON, Idee di architettura. Scritti e conversazioni, Milano 2011

P. ZUMTHOR, Pensare Architettura, Milano 2003

P. ZUMTHOR, Atmosfere. Ambienti architettonici. Le cose che ci circondano, Milano 2007


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 *