Università Roma Tre

The laboratory is part of the training program of the master's degree program in restoration and aims to educate the students in architectural design in historical contexts.
The course promotes the acquisition of skills, methodologies, and sensitivities focused on the critical reading of stratified contexts and the development of the architectural project as a tool for the reorganization and enhancement of the existent, capable of restoring an organic, evocative, and telling image to what of the archaeological heritage may currently appear fragile and fragmented.

The course consists of two parts.
The first part is theoretical and provides lectures and small exercises. These are aimed as much at the knowledge of the project context as a quick but indispensable review of architectural design in the historical-archaeological field.
The second part is applicative: in this latter part, students (organized in small groups-probably of two people) will face the project of enhancement and musealization of the archaeological site of the Cisterna delle Sette Sale at the Colle Oppio in Rome.
The project theme is part of a concrete program promoted by the Capitoline administration.
The choice of this theme is due to several reasons:
- first of all, it represents an opportunity to get to know and investigate an only apparently familiar landscape, that of the archaeological and monumental center of Rome;
- it is a context dense with histories, appropriate for developing and maturing a methodology of critical reading that starts from the geomorphological data and then addresses the analysis of different historical landscapes and their modifications;
- the design theme, although circumscribed to a restricted area, moves to address the project at multiple scales, from the urban one to that of the monument, up to the formal, structural, and technical conception of the archaeological cover.

During the course, the professor will progressively indicate and provide teaching materials.

Review of thermal sciences. Main characteristics of passive systems. Elements of psychrometry. Thermal behavior of the structures. Thermal insulating materials. Determination of energy requirements for air conditioning of buildings. Types of air-conditioning systems, selection criteria for the various types. Integrated design of the building-plant system. Renewable energy production and use systems: outline. Elements of acoustics and lighting technology. Notes on energy saving. Reference regulations.

Heat and Mass Transfer, Yunus A. Çengel.