Università Roma Tre

The course aims to make the student aware of the problem of the shape of the architectural space, gradually building the typological, structural and aesthetic connections that define its peculiar characteristics.
This process will be pursued through lessons focused on comparative readings of important architectural works, composition exercises that allow to build a solid aesthetic awareness and to manage the rules of aggregation and manipulation of forms and space. To these will be added exercises of redesign and interpretation of exemplary single-family houses and an initial design experimentation centered on the definition of a minimal living space.

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).

M. Bonaiti, Architettura è. Louis I. Kahn, gli scritti, Electa, Milano, 2002
R. Moneo, Inquietudine teorica e strategia progettuale nell’opera di otto architetti contemporanei, Electa,2005.
B. Munari, Fantasia, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1977.
B. Munari, Da cosa nasce cosa, Laterza, Bari-Roma, 1981.
M. Meneguzzo, Bruno Munari, Electa, Milano, 1986
M. Meneguzzo, Munari ’50. La bellezza come funzione, Corraini, Mantova, 1991.

This is the first part of an annual architectural design laboratory, in this first semester with 6 credits, 4 of architectural and urban composition and design and 2 of structures.

In the first half of the year, the commitment is 50 hours, dedicated to lectures, architectural visits and practical exercises of model building, drawing and design.
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 course, the quality of the exercises is obviously crucial in assigning the mark itself. All processing of the work is done by hand, the use of the C.A.d.

Exercises

1-Topography (Individual)
Exercise with level curves to be played by model, is assigned a building volume of date size that must be housed on the ground by creating a digging, or a podium by land reconditioning and making an access path. Scale 1: 250
Area of ​​intervention 75m x 50m, altitude 10m, making curves with cardboard from 1mm (4 curves per 1 meter of altitude) serve 40 curves to absorb the difference in height.
The volume to be inserted is a generic residential volume of 5 m for 10 m, which can be inserted as shown in the examples shown, inserting it into the ground, creating a podium, lifting it on a pilot,
or by adopting hybrid solutions.

2-Redesign and reconstruction of an architecture (group 3 people)
Analysis, technical drawing and realization of a scale model 1: 100 or 1:50 of the following residences:

Le Corbusier, Maison Guiette, Anversa, Belgio, 1927

Le Corbusier, Ville Savoye, Poissy, Francia, 1928 - 1931

Alvar Aalto Casa sperimentale a Muuratsalo, Finlandia, 1952-1954

Alberto Campo Baeza, Casa Turegano, Madrid, Spagna, 1988

Louis Kahn, Fisher House, Hatboro, Pennsylvania, USA, 1960-1967

3-Building System (Individual)
Project of a small hut, up to 20 sqm, everywhere students want, in a place well known to the designer, using a single constructive system between:
reinforced concrete, brick, stone, wood, steel. Scale model 1:50, plants and sections in scale 1:50

4-Sketches and relief from true anthropometric (individual during visits)
Draw on a drawing book A5 sketches of travel, prospects, plants, sections, portraits, and assonometries, paying particular attention to the proportions of the spaces and architectural elements represented. Booklet to be delivered.

Testi:

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

Manuali:

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

James G. Frazer, Il ramo d’oro, Newton Compton 2009
George Leonard Hersey, Il significato nascosto dell'architettura classica, Editore: Bruno Mondadori, Anno edizione: 2001
F.Purini, Esercizi di composizione, Editore: Libria, Melfi Anno edizione: 1996
F.Purini, Comporre l'architettura, Editore: Laterza Bari, Anno edizione: 2000
Colin Rowe, La matematica della villa ideale, Editore: Zanichelli, Anno edizione: 1992
E.H. Gombrich, La storia dell'arte, Editore: Phaidon, Anno edizione: 2008
Ulteriore bibliografia verrà fornita allo studente durante l’anno accademico.
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