Università Roma Tre

The course programme consists of the design of a residential building with housing facilities in a consolidated urban context. In detail, it is required to develop a building organism composed of 60 housing units of different sizes for a total of about 7,500 sqm and services (small conference room, library, commercial services, common rooms) for a total of about 3,000 sqm.
The project should be developed by integrating technological issues as well as a reflection on costs that keep it in the context of affordable housing.
A critical approach to the theme is required that reflects on the typological theme starting from contemporary needs.

Baratta A.F., Finucci F., Montuori L., Palmieri V. Abitare la condivisione. Un confronto divulgativo sul tema dell'abitare e della condivisione, Napoli, CLEAN. 2017.

Baratta A L, Finucci F., Gabriele S., Metta A., Montuori L., Palmieri V. Cohousing Programmi e progetti per la riqualificazione del patrimonio esistente. Pisa, Edizioni ETS, 2014

Melotto B., Pierini S. O., Case Studies. Housing Primer, Le forme della residenza nella città contemporanea. Milano, Politecnica. 2012.

Leo, B. densidad / density, Barcellona, a+t, 2006.

The architectural design laboratory 3, located at the end of the three-year degree course, will focus on the design of a medium-sized building with a predominantly residential function, integrated with spaces for commerce and other services, in an empty area of the consolidated urban zone of the city of Rome. The project will be confronted with an articulated urban landscape and will have to evaluate all the aspects related to the insertion of an architectural organism within an existing context. We must consider, as main themes of reasoning: the evaluation of the settlement principle and the typological, morphological and spatial characteristics of the organism in relation to those present in the context in which it is inserted, the relationship with the public space and with the infrastructure system present in the immediate vicinity. At the same time the building will have to give answers to the theme of living, proposing housing solutions that are the result of an updated thought on new ways of life and new housing needs. The project will be developed on a scale that will allow both a definition of the technological and structural characteristics of the organism and an economic evaluation of a parametric type.

L. Zevi, Il Nuovissimo Manuale dell’Architetto, Roma, Mancosu, 2012
P. O. Rossi, Roma, Guida all’architettura moderna 1909-2011, Bari 2012
M. Guccione (a cura di), Guida ai quartieri romani INA Casa, Roma 2002
L. Benevolo, Roma dal 1879 al 1990, Bari 1992
M. Tafuri (a cura di), Vienna Rossa, La politica residenziale nella Vienna Socialista 1919-1933, Milano 1980
M. Casciato (a cura di), Olanda 1870-1940, Citta, Casa, Architettura, Milano 1980
C. M. Arìs, Le variazioni dell’identità, 2012
I. Abalos, Il buon abitare, Milano 2009
L. Dall’Olio, D. Mandolesi, La residenza Collettiva, Roma 2014
M. Farina, Spazi e figure dell’abitare. Il progetto della residenza contemporanea in Olanda, 2014
L. Reale, La residenza collettiva, Roma 2015
Other texts and monographic issues of magazines will be indicated by the teacher during the lessons.

City, residence, public space

The laboratory involves the development of a collective residential building project in the fabric of the consolidated city. The approach of the course concerns the conception of an urban project and not simply the building. The characteristics of the surrounding urban fabric are therefore studied from a morphological and historical point of view, trying to understand its recent and past transformations and in particular the devices with which the architecture has characterized the piece of city in question, which are spatial, constructive, typological or linguistic type. This analysis is placed within the architectural and urban theory of the second half of the twentieth century, in particular the Italian one.
The final objective of the course is a project that concerns residential construction and public space as an essential element of urban transformation and the quality of the living environment. Particular attention is paid to the definition of the connection to the ground of the buildings from a physical and functional point of view, in order to understand and determine how the private and public dimensions interact. This aspect is also isolated and investigated from a historical and typological point of view within the European city. The project to be developed concerns the soil, vegetation, collective services and residence. The residential component is intended as mixed, with social housing and for special categories, such as students, refugees or elderly people, but also free-market residences, in the belief that this can encourage greater social assortment and good functioning of the community.
The study of the basic typological solutions that characterize the panorama of European cities is suggested, trying to understand how one passes from the public dimension, of the street or square, to the private one and how this passage and its sequences can determine the quality and efficiency of the living environment, from a spatial and consequently social quality point of view. What is required is the development of a way of living that takes into account the aspects described and interprets them consciously, controlling the scale of the collective spaces and that of the individual accommodation.
A general layout proposal is requested at scales 1:1000 and 1:500 in which the design of the building and the public space can then be explored further up to scales 1:00 and 1:50. The 1:200 scale is the preferred one for the control of the relationship between building and ground. The proposed working method involves the initial processing of hand drawings and models, with the possibility of using digital CAD drawing for advanced control of the project. In any case, the revisions of the work during the course will be solely on the basis of drawings reported on paper and physical models. Work is foreseen individually or in groups of 2 people, and the interaction of several groups is foreseen for the general urban project proposal in which to insert the specific architectural projects.
The development of a simple and well-defined construction system is a fundamental part of the course, systems in reinforced concrete, steel, wood or masonry or mixed systems are admitted without preferences as long as a project is developed in which the relationship between space, structure and envelope is sincere, clear and aware and in which the architectural language is a clear expression of the construction logic. Environmental comfort and energy management control systems are part of the design idea right from the initial conception and proposal of the system. Passive systems are preferred and the unconscious and automatic use of popular so-called 'sustainability' devices is discouraged. to be applied to the project following the settlement, spatial and linguistic choices.
The laboratory makes use of the contribution of the technology and evaluation module, therefore the control of the construction and environmental comfort aspects and the awareness of the construction costs will be considered substantial elements of the design study. The interaction with the two modules will be progressive and continuous during the development of the work and not applied at the end of the project.
The transformation of the city into a pleasant and safe environment in line with the history of the European city is the theoretical horizon of the course.

Curcio Giovanna, La città del Settecento, Laterza, Bari, 2008
Secchi Bernardo, La città del ventesimo secolo, Laterza, Bari, 2005
Zucconi Guido, La città dell'Ottocento, Laterza, Bari, 2001

Piccinato Giorgio, La costruzione dell'urbanistica. Germania 1871-1914, Officina, Roma 1977
Sitte Camillo, L'arte di costruire le città. L'urbanistica secondo i suoi fondamenti artistici. Jaca book, Milano, 1980

Benjamin Walter, Immagini di città, Einaudi, Torino, 2007
Rossi Aldo, Autobiografia scientifica, Il saggiatore, Milano 2009
Roth Joseph, Città bianche, Adelphi, 1987
Borchardt Rudolph, Città italiane, Milano, 1989

Quaroni Ludovico, Immagine di Roma, Laterza, Bari, 1969
Cullen Gordon, Il paesaggio urbano, morfologia e progettazione, Bologna 1976
Romano Marco, Costruire le città, Skira, Milano, 2004
Magnago Lampugnani Vittorio, Frammenti Urbani, I piccoli oggetti che raccontano le città, Torino 2021
Gabellini Patrizia, Tecniche Urbanistiche, Roma 2001

Aymonino Carlo, il significato delle città, 1975
Gregotti Vittorio, La forma del territorio, in Edilizia Moderna, 1966
Rossi Aldo, L'architettura della città. Il saggiatore, Milano 2018

Holl Steven, Urbanisms. Lavorare con il dubbio. Libria, Melfi, 2010

We also recommend consulting monographs by the following authors:
Alvar Aalto
Le Corbusier
Mies Van der Rohe
Louis Kahn
Fernand Pouillon
Alvaro Siza
Tadao Ando
J.B. Vilanova Artigas
Mario Ridolfi
Mario De Renzi
Asnago e Vender
Ignazio Gardella
Luigi Caccia Dominioni

The aim of the Building Technology Module is to provide all the appropriate tools for students to manage design relations between materials, building elements, working techniques, requirements, and regulations involved since the concept design. All that fully aware of the strong link between typological-stylish features and technological-architectural ones of the building conceived as a whole of interrelated and organized parts, according to a systemic and performance design approach.
To this end, the program is divided into three parts:
1_in the first part, and with reference to examples of contemporary architecture, the main technological solutions are examined with particular attention to structural elements (foundations, vertical and horizontal structures, floors) and envelope;
2 in the second part, manufacturers of building components will be asked to illustrate to the students the technical characteristics useful for the elaboration of the design project;
3_the third part will be dedicated to design project reviews.

Testi
AA.VV. [Varie]. Grandi Atlanti dell’Architettura, UTET, Milano.
Allen E., I fondamenti del costruire, Milano 1997
Arbizzani E., Tecnologia dei sistemi edilizi. Progetto e costruzione, Rimini 2021

The aim of the course is to provide all the appropriate tools for students to manage design relations between materials, building elements, working techniques, requirements and regulations involved since the concept design.
All that fully aware of the strong link between typological-stylish features and technological-architectural ones of the building conceived as a whole of interrelated and organized parts, according to a systemic and performance design approach.

Arbizzani, E. (2021), Progettazione tecnologica dell’architettura, Maggioli Editore
Civiero, P. (2017), Tecnologie per la riqualificazione. Soluzioni e strategie per la trasformazione intelligente del comparto abitativo esistente, Maggioli Editore

The aim of the course is to provide all the appropriate tools for students to manage design relations between materials, building elements, working techniques, requirements and regulations involved since the concept design. All that fully aware of the strong link between typological-stylish features and technological-architectural ones of the building conceived as a whole of interrelated and organized parts, according to a systemic and performance design approach.

Watts A., Modern Construction Handbook, Springer, Vienna and New York, 2001

In the general framework of the evaluation topics, the module aims to provide the specific theoretical and methodological tools for the real estate appraisal and the evaluation of environmental, landscape, historical and cultural resources. The main concepts of microeconomics, the basics of estimation theory and the methodological procedures for value judgments are considered basic knowledge for the understanding of the estimating values and the economic variables generated by an architectural and urban project. Criteria, procedures and appraisal's techniques are suited to different stages of the project, solving in each scale specific problems. The module also provides methods and criteria for the appraisal of the use value and the non-use value. Basics of technique and methodology for the assessment of projects, program and plans are provided, in response to specific feasibility profiles, considering the evaluation as an active, logical and methodological tool to support planning and design.
Specifically, the module deals with:
- Basics of Microeconomic: elements of theory of value, economic goods, markets structures, market pricing, general equilibrium theory, consumer choice, production theory.
- Appraisal fundaments: appraisal theory, principles and methods, basics of statistics, basics of mathematical finance, market value, cost value, secondary values, elements of total economic value.
Basics of plans, programs and projects evaluation: financial and economic approaches.

About microeconomics
Sloman J., "Elementi di economia", Il Mulino, Bologna, 2007.
Stiglitz J. E., "Economia del settore pubblico", Hoepli, Milano, 2003.
About appraisal
C. Forte, B. De' Rossi, "Principi di economia ed estimo", Etas Libri, Milano 1979.
A. Realfonzo "Teoria e metodo dell’estimo urbano” , Carocci, Roma, 1994.
M. Polelli, “Nuovo trattato di estimo”, Maggior, Rimini, 2008.
About plans, programs and projects evaluation: Module handouts.

In the general framework of the evaluation topics, the module aims to provide the specific theoretical and methodological tools for the real estate appraisal and the evaluation of environmental, landscape, historical and cultural resources. The main concepts of microeconomics, the basics of estimation theory and the methodological procedures for value judgments are considered basic knowledge for the understanding of the estimating values and the economic variables generated by an architectural and urban project. Criteria, procedures and appraisal's techniques are suited to different stages of the project, solving in each scale specific problems. The module also provides methods and criteria for the appraisal of the use value and the non-use value. Basics of technique and methodology for the assessment of projects, program and plans are provided, in response to specific feasibility profiles, considering the evaluation as an active, logical and methodological tool to support planning and design.
Specifically, the module deals with:
- Basics of Microeconomic: elements of theory of value, economic goods, markets structures, market pricing, general equilibrium theory, consumer choice, production theory.
- Appraisal fundaments: appraisal theory, principles and methods, basics of statistics, basics of mathematical finance, market value, cost value, secondary values, elements of total economic value.
Basics of plans, programs and projects evaluation: financial and economic approaches.

About microeconomics
Sloman J., "Elementi di economia", Il Mulino, Bologna, 2007.
Stiglitz J. E., "Economia del settore pubblico", Hoepli, Milano, 2003.
About appraisal
C. Forte, B. De' Rossi, "Principi di economia ed estimo", Etas Libri, Milano 1979.
A. Realfonzo "Teoria e metodo dell’estimo urbano” , Carocci, Roma, 1994.
M. Polelli, “Nuovo trattato di estimo”, Maggior, Rimini, 2008.
About plans, programs and projects evaluation: Module handouts.

In the general framework of the evaluation topics, the module aims to provide the specific theoretical and methodological tools for the real estate appraisal and the evaluation of environmental, landscape, historical and cultural resources. The main concepts of microeconomics, the basics of estimation theory and the methodological procedures for value judgments are considered basic knowledge for the understanding of the estimating values and the economic variables generated by an architectural and urban project. Criteria, procedures and appraisal's techniques are suited to different stages of the project, solving in each scale specific problems. The module also provides methods and criteria for the appraisal of the use value and the non-use value. Basics of technique and methodology for the assessment of projects, program and plans are provided, in response to specific feasibility profiles, considering the evaluation as an active, logical and methodological tool to support planning and design.
Specifically, the module deals with:
- Basics of Microeconomic: elements of theory of value, economic goods, markets structures, market pricing, general equilibrium theory, consumer choice, production theory.
- Appraisal fundaments: appraisal theory, principles and methods, basics of statistics, basics of mathematical finance, market value, cost value, secondary values, elements of total economic value.
Basics of plans, programs and projects evaluation: financial and economic approaches.

About microeconomics
Sloman J., "Elementi di economia", Il Mulino, Bologna, 2007.
Stiglitz J. E., "Economia del settore pubblico", Hoepli, Milano, 2003.
About appraisal
C. Forte, B. De' Rossi, "Principi di economia ed estimo", Etas Libri, Milano 1979.
A. Realfonzo "Teoria e metodo dell’estimo urbano” , Carocci, Roma, 1994.
M. Polelli, “Nuovo trattato di estimo”, Maggior, Rimini, 2008.
About plans, programs and projects evaluation: Module handouts.

In the general framework of the evaluation topics, the module aims to provide the specific theoretical and methodological tools for the real estate appraisal and the evaluation of environmental, landscape, historical and cultural resources. The main concepts of microeconomics, the basics of estimation theory and the methodological procedures for value judgments are considered basic knowledge for the understanding of the estimating values and the economic variables generated by an architectural and urban project. Criteria, procedures and appraisal's techniques are suited to different stages of the project, solving in each scale specific problems. The module also provides methods and criteria for the appraisal of the use value and the non-use value. Basics of technique and methodology for the assessment of projects, program and plans are provided, in response to specific feasibility profiles, considering the evaluation as an active, logical and methodological tool to support planning and design.
Specifically, the module deals with:
- Basics of Microeconomic: elements of theory of value, economic goods, markets structures, market pricing, general equilibrium theory, consumer choice, production theory.
- Appraisal fundaments: appraisal theory, principles and methods, basics of statistics, basics of mathematical finance, market value, cost value, secondary values, elements of total economic value.
Basics of plans, programs and projects evaluation: financial and economic approaches.

About microeconomics
Sloman J., "Elementi di economia", Il Mulino, Bologna, 2007.
Stiglitz J. E., "Economia del settore pubblico", Hoepli, Milano, 2003.
About appraisal
C. Forte, B. De' Rossi, "Principi di economia ed estimo", Etas Libri, Milano 1979.
A. Realfonzo "Teoria e metodo dell’estimo urbano” , Carocci, Roma, 1994.
M. Polelli, “Nuovo trattato di estimo”, Maggior, Rimini, 2008.
About plans, programs and projects evaluation: Module handouts.

In the general framework of the evaluation topics, the module aims to provide the specific theoretical and methodological tools for the real estate appraisal and the evaluation of environmental, landscape, historical and cultural resources. The main concepts of microeconomics, the basics of estimation theory and the methodological procedures for value judgments are considered basic knowledge for the understanding of the estimating values and the economic variables generated by an architectural and urban project. Criteria, procedures and appraisal's techniques are suited to different stages of the project, solving in each scale specific problems. The module also provides methods and criteria for the appraisal of the use value and the non-use value. Basics of technique and methodology for the assessment of projects, program and plans are provided, in response to specific feasibility profiles, considering the evaluation as an active, logical and methodological tool to support planning and design.
Specifically, the module deals with:
- Basics of Microeconomic: elements of theory of value, economic goods, markets structures, market pricing, general equilibrium theory, consumer choice, production theory.
- Appraisal fundaments: appraisal theory, principles and methods, basics of statistics, basics of mathematical finance, market value, cost value, secondary values, elements of total economic value.
Basics of plans, programs and projects evaluation: financial and economic approaches.

About microeconomics
Sloman J., "Elementi di economia", Il Mulino, Bologna, 2007.
Stiglitz J. E., "Economia del settore pubblico", Hoepli, Milano, 2003.
About appraisal
C. Forte, B. De' Rossi, "Principi di economia ed estimo", Etas Libri, Milano 1979.
A. Realfonzo "Teoria e metodo dell’estimo urbano” , Carocci, Roma, 1994.
M. Polelli, “Nuovo trattato di estimo”, Maggior, Rimini, 2008.
About plans, programs and projects evaluation: Module handouts.

In the general framework of the evaluation topics, the module aims to provide the specific theoretical and methodological tools for the real estate appraisal and the evaluation of environmental, landscape, historical and cultural resources. The main concepts of microeconomics, the basics of estimation theory and the methodological procedures for value judgments are considered basic knowledge for the understanding of the estimating values and the economic variables generated by an architectural and urban project. Criteria, procedures and appraisal's techniques are suited to different stages of the project, solving in each scale specific problems. The module also provides methods and criteria for the appraisal of the use value and the non-use value. Basics of technique and methodology for the assessment of projects, program and plans are provided, in response to specific feasibility profiles, considering the evaluation as an active, logical and methodological tool to support planning and design.
Specifically, the module deals with:
- Basics of Microeconomic: elements of theory of value, economic goods, markets structures, market pricing, general equilibrium theory, consumer choice, production theory.
- Appraisal fundaments: appraisal theory, principles and methods, basics of statistics, basics of mathematical finance, market value, cost value, secondary values, elements of total economic value.
Basics of plans, programs and projects evaluation: financial and economic approaches.

About microeconomics
Sloman J., "Elementi di economia", Il Mulino, Bologna, 2007.
Stiglitz J. E., "Economia del settore pubblico", Hoepli, Milano, 2003.
About appraisal
C. Forte, B. De' Rossi, "Principi di economia ed estimo", Etas Libri, Milano 1979.
A. Realfonzo "Teoria e metodo dell’estimo urbano” , Carocci, Roma, 1994.
M. Polelli, “Nuovo trattato di estimo”, Maggior, Rimini, 2008.
About plans, programs and projects evaluation: Module handouts.