Università Roma Tre

The course aims to make the student aware of the problem of architectural space, gradually building up the typological, structural and aesthetic connections that define its peculiar characteristics.
This process will be pursued through targeted lessons, readings of canonical examples and individual composition exercises that help to build a solid aesthetic awareness.

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.

Books:

LE CORBUSIER, Verso un architettura, Milano 1973

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

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

Handbooks:

A. Desplazes, Constructing architecture, materials processes structures, a handbook, Basel, 2005

F. Cellini, Manualetto, Norme tecniche, costruttive e grafiche per lo svolgimento di una esercitazione progettuale sul tema della casa unifamiliare, Palermo, 1991

The lessons of the second semester will be directly dedicated to the development of the design exercise and aimed at stimulating students' reflections and critical choices. The year's theme is the detached house, for a family of four, in an open and significant place from the point of view of its orography and landscape. The communications will be very practical, aimed at illustrating the design aspects and the historical references; the relationship with the soil; the relationship between spatial structure and supporting structure. The lessons will be alternated with moments of collective and individual discussion on individual projects.

_Bruno Zevi, Saper vedere l’architettura. Saggio sull’interpretazione spaziale dell’architettura, Einaudi, Torino 1948
_Le Corbusier, Vers une architecture, (a cura di P. Cerri e P. Nicolin), Milano, Longanesi 1984
_Ludovico Quaroni, Progettare un edificio. Otto lezioni di architettura, Kappa, Roma 2001 [1° ed. 1977]
_Franco Purini, L’architettura didattica, Gangemi, Reggio Calabria 1980
_Gaston Bachelard, La poetica dello spazio, Dedalo, Bari 1975
_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, Città Studi, Milano 1991
_Bruno Messina, Spazi domestici del XX secolo. Lettera Ventidue, Siracusa 2008