Università Roma Tre

The Workshop focuses on a medium-sized architectural theme in the area of the former Slaughterhouse of Testaccio. The students (working individually or in groups of two) will be involved in the design of a building integrating educational and cultural services, supporting the Department's activities and in connection with the life of the neighborhood. The central idea is the articulation of different uses (study and teaching, meetings, temporary exhibitions, conferences and small events, reception and restoration) within a facility of medium complexity. The relationship with the city will be sought through work on the public space, which will be brought inside the building, in an idea of continuity of the organization of space. With this in mind, the project declines places for collective experiences and environments reserved for individual activities, with particular attention to transition spaces, understood as places for relationships.
The students will thus have the opportunity to put into practice with the project the experiences acquired in terms of the measurement and configuration of space, the identification of formal structures and their expression through construction choices, and the search for the most appropriate character to define the theme. The objective is to root the geometric-abstract dimension of the project in the specific identity of the place, with its identity and history.

F. Cellini, Manualetto. Norme tecniche, costruttive e grafiche per lo svolgimento di una esercitazione sul tema della casa unifamiliare, Città Studi, Milano, 1991
K. Frampton, Tettonica e architettura. Poetica della forma architettonica nel XIX e XX secolo, Skira, Milano 1999
R. Moneo, Inquietudine teorica e strategia progettuale nell’opera di otto architetti contemporanei, Electa, Milano 2005
C. St John Wilson, Architectural Reflections. Studies in the Philosophy and Practice of Architecture, Manchester University Press, 2000
F. Venezia, Francesco Venezia: le idee e le occasioni, Electa, Milano 2006

The class proposes the Design of a building hosting integrated Laboratories for the Department of Architecture within the complex of the former slaughterhouse of Rome (Mattatoio), today transformed as urban Campus hosting aside the University public museums and cultural institutions targeted mostly at young people and open to the lively neighborhood of Testaccio. The building is proposed as replacement of the current Pavilion n.14, with the possibility to fully substitute it or alternatively to preserve and integrate some parts. In a second step, the design is enlarged to the open area that mediates between the complex and the city, proposing to the students to face the topics of the open space design and of the solution of a longstanding urban marginal area by fully exploiting its strong potential while preserving at the same time the privacy of the Campus.

F. Cellini, Manualetto. Norme tecniche, costruttive e grafiche per lo svolgimento di una esercitazione sul tema della casa unifamiliare, Città Studi, Milano, 1991
F. Venezia, Le opere, gli scritti, la critica, Electa, Venezia, 1998
K. Frampton, Tettonica e architettura. Poetica della forma architettonica nel XIX e XX secolo. Skira, Milano, 2005

The Studio offers students the tools to tackle a medium-sized and complex project, paying particular attention to relations with the urban context and the public dimension of architecture. The theme consists in the design of a Testaccio Civic Center, which involves the combination of spaces intended for temporary exhibitions, a small museum in the neighborhood, reception and information spaces, rooms for conferences, shows and projections, a study center with a library for the Testaccio Urban Archive, offices and services.

K. Frampton, Tettonica e architettura. Poetica della forma architettonica nel XIX e XX secolo, Skira, Milano 1999
R. Moneo, Inquietudine teorica e strategia progettuale nell’opera di otto architetti contemporanei, Electa, Milano 2005
F. Venezia, Che cos’è l’architettura. Lezioni, conferenze e un intervento, Electa, Milano 2011