Università Roma Tre

The applicative part of the course introduces the student to the design of a single-family residential architectural organism inserted within a lot of assigned dimensions. This lot, whose altimetric trend registers a slight slope, is located on the shores of a lake for which a specific geographical location is not provided but only some reference images.
A detailed functional program is provided, the client: the designer, painter, teacher Bruno Munari, whose multifaceted aesthetic contribution and applied thought within the history of 20th century art are illustrated.

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

A House in the Roman Countryside.

The second part of the course will be dedicated to the design of a house. The essential features are its single-family purpose, therefore of small dimensions, and its location: the Roman countryside. The specification of the context that will be useful to inspire the design theme will be the subject of specific lessons in which we will address the essential characteristics of the location.

The design theme consists of creating a small residential structure. This structure should be conceived considering innovative concepts of living, advanced spatial and construction solutions, taking into account the intended use, as contemporary society is increasingly oriented towards new professions, new forms of cohabitation, and new ways of dwelling.

Particular attention will be given to the planimetric control of the project, the section, and the volumetrics, as well as the relationships that the house should establish with its surroundings, both directly and indirectly. Nature will be interpreted as a place of origin and could be seen as a new 'Arcadia,' an ideal place for contemplation or the development of new human activities, a place of gathering and harmony in a hypothetical 'return' to ancient rituals.

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: Libreria, 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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