Università Roma Tre

The applied physics for architecture programme focuses on accompanying the architectural design process up to the preliminary stage. The concept design will be then further developed up to the executive level inside the 2M course.

The training that will be carried out during the course and which will be subject of the final exam is scheduled as follows:
1. Analysis of external environmental characteristics (sunshine, prevailing winds, noise sources, land morphology, surrounding urban fabric, etc.) and what impact these variables have on the design of the volumes and surfaces of the envelope and on the orientation building in a site.
2. Analysis of the activities that will take place in each area of the building and identification of the optimal environmental conditions for them
3. Sizing / verification of the dimensions of the glass surfaces in 2 environments (one large space that characterizes the common areas, and a second one that represents the private space of the rooms) through the method of calculating the daylight factor
4. approximate calculation of summer and winter heat loads and ventilation requirements; verification of compliance with current regulations regarding the containment of energy consumption
5. Location and approximate sizing of the technological plants: thermal power station plant, refrigeration plant, environments containing the air treatment units
6. Passive fire prevention design: identification of escape routes, emergency exits, compartmentalization.

The teaching material consists of the handouts available online, integrated on the different topics by the below listed books.

MEASURE’S UNIT REVIEW: Physical characteristics, nomenclature, terminology and units. Foundations of physics with practical laboratory work

1. HEAT TRANSMISSION RECALLS PROPOSED TO THE STUDY OF ENVIRONMENTAL BUILDING INTERACTIONS
1) Heat conduction
General information on thermal fields; Fourier’s law in cartesian coordinates without developing internal heat. Examples of exact solutions: stationary regime. The similarity electricity. Outline of variable regime: Regime periodic stabilized in half semi-infinite. Applications
2) Convection
Definition. Natural convection and forced convection. Schematic of the phenomenon. Definition of the coefficient of heat exchange. Dimensional analysis. Index method. Determination of varying dimensional characteristics of heat transfer. Applications.
3) Radiation
Kirchhoff's law. Planck's law, Stefan-Boltzmann and Wien. Gray bodies. Applications.
4) complex phenomena
Heat transfer by adduction. Applications.

2. REVIEW OF PLANTS AND COOLING SYSTEMS
1) Guide to the integration of technical installations in buildings: the role of the architect, project standards definition and classification of technical systems (mechanical and electrical).
2) Heating: sizing and applications. Air conditioning systems design and applications. Air conditioning systems: free cooling system (UTA). Mixed systems (elements).

Italo Barducci, "Trasmissione del calore", Esa Editrice
Giuliano Dall’O “Architettura e impianti”, CittàStudi

The laboratory teaching is structured by alternating theoretical contributions, in the form of lessons / lectures with preparatory exercises exercise the main project according to the following schedule:

October

Tutorial: Beauty is the splendor of truth
structural and spatial typological analysis of paradigmatic architecture of the twentieth century author which manifests the coherence between aesthetics of form, design principles and program. (The authors are: Labrouste, Schinkel, Berlage, Wagner, Perret, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Terragni, Libera, Torroja, Kahn, Dieste, Candela, Nervi, Morandi, Perugini-Fiorentino, Lewerentz, Zumthor, Vacchini, Campo Baeza, Conzett, Keretz.)
The exercise involves the processing to be carried out in groups (3/4 students) chose the building of charts and a scale model 1/100 or 1/50 of a significant part of this:

November / December / January / February

The exam project: For a structural rationalism:
The Cultural Center of the Alessandrino District
Elaboration of the architectural design: graphics on the urban scale (1: 1000/1: 500) and the architectural scale (1: 100 / 1:50) in addition to the creation of a contextualized model at scale 1: 200 with insights 1 : 50.
The work can be done individually or in groups of maximum 2-3 students.

Bibliografia di riferimento

AA.VV, La concezione struttrurale, Ingegneria e architettura in Italia negli anni cinquanta e sessanta. Allemandi 2008
AA.VV, Riccardo Morandi, Gangemi 1992
C. BALMOND, Informal, Prestel 2002
R. BANHAM, Ambiente e tecnica nell'architettura moderna, Laterza 1993
E.L. BOULLEE, Architettura saggio sull'arte, Marsilio 1977
K. BOTTICHER, Tettonica e architettura, in F. Dal Co, Teorie del Moderno Laterza 1982
C.CARUSO, Sigurd Lewerentz and a material basis for form, in S. Lewerentz two Churches, AAVV Arkitektur Forlag AB 1997
J. CONZETT, Architettura nelle opere d'ingegneria, a cura di M. A. Chiorino, ed. Allemandi
J. CONZETT, Forme di strutture, Electa 2011
F. DAL CO (a cura di), Storia dell’architettura italiana. Il secondo Novecento, Electa, Milano 1997
S. DI PASQUALE, L’arte del costruire, Marsilio, Venezia 1996
K. FRAMPTON, Tettonica e architettura. Poetica della forma architettonica nel XIX e XX sec., Skira, 1999
G. GARGIANI, R. FANELLI, Auguste Perret, Laterza 2002
G. GRASSI, Leo Battista Alberti e l'Architettura Romana, Franco Angeli 2000
L. I. KAHN, Idea e immagine, a cura di C. NORBERG-SCHULZ, Officina, Roma 1987
L. I. KAHN, Architettura è, gli scritti, a cura di M. BONAIUTI, Electa, Milano 2002
S. GIEDION, L'eterno presente: uno studio sulla costanza e il mutamento. Le origini dell'arte, 2 voll.,Feltrinelli, Milano 1969
C. MARTI' ARIS, Le variazioni dell'identità, Città studi 1996
R. MASIERO, Livio Vacchini, Electa 1999
C. MOCCIA, Architettura e costruzione, Aiòn, 2012
A. MONESTIROLI, La metopa e il trigrifo, Nove lezioni di architettura. Laterza 2004
A. MONESTIROLI, Le forme e il tempo in Mies Van der Rohe ,L. Hilberseimer, Clup
1984
P.L. NERVI, Nuove strutture, Ed. Continuità 1963
P.L. NERVI, Costruire correttamente, Hoepli 1955
D. PIKIONIS , A sentimental topography,a cura di A. Ferlenga, Electa, Milano 2002
G. PONTI, Amate l'architettura, Società editrice Vitali e Ghianda, Genova 1957
S. PORETTI, Modernismi Italiani, Gangemi 2008
A. ROSSI, Autobiografia scientifica, Il Saggiatore 2013
QUETREMERE DE QUINCY, Dizionario storico di architettura, F.lli Negretti 1842
P. SCHMITTENER, La forma costruita, Electa 1988
A. SIZA Scritti di architettura, Electa, Milano 1997
G. SEMPER, Lo stile nelle arti tettoniche o estetica pratica, Laterza 1992
A. SAGGIO, Architettura e modernità, Carocci 2010
M. TAFURI, Storia dell’architettura italiana 1944-1981, Einaudi, Torino 1985
M. TAFURI, F. Dal Co, Architettura Contemporanea, Electa, Milano 1976
E.TESSENOW, Considerazioni elementari sul costruire, Franco Angeli ed., 1974
E.TESSENOW, Il tetto (1927), in M. DE BENEDETTI, A. PRACCHI, Antologia dell’architettura moderna. Testi, manifesti, utopie, Zanichelli, Bologna 1988
E. TORROJA, La concezione strutturale, Hoepli Milano 1960
M. VAN DER ROHE, Costruire (1923), Architettura e volontà dell’epoca (1924), in M. DE M. DE BENEDETTI, A. PRACCHI, Antologia dell’architettura moderna. Testi, manifesti, utopie, Zanichelli, Bologna 1988
M. VAN DER ROHE, Gli scritti e le parole, Einaudi 2010
J. UTZON, Platforms and plateau: ideas of a Danish architecture, in Zodiac, n. 10, 1962
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P. ZERMANI, Architettura, luogo, tempo, luce, silenzio, Electa 2015
E. VIOLLET-LE-DUC, L'architettura ragionata, Jaca Book, Milano 1981
E. VIOLLET-LE-DUC, Conversazioni sull'architettura, Jaca Book, Milano 1990
P. ZUMTHOR, Pensare architettura, Electa, Firenze 2003
P. ZUMTHOR, Atmosfere. Ambienti architettonici. Le cose che ci circondano, Electa, Milano, 2007

The aim of the Design Studio is to develop a project of an office building in the Ostiense area of Rome.
The didactic is divided in four seminars:

1_volume and the public space (3 weeks)
2_structural system (4 weeks)
3_internal distribution (3 weeks)
4_building envelope (3 weeks)

In the last part of the Design Studio students will be asked to synthetize the results of the four seminars into their final work.

P. Desideri (1978), "Pier Luigi Nervi", Zanichelli, Bologna
P. Desideri (1995), "La città di latta", Costa & Nolan, Genova
P. Desideri (2002), "Ex-city", Meltemi, Roma
P. Desideri (2004), "International Style?", Meltemi, Roma