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 second part of an annual architectural design workshop.
In the teaching of design, one experiments with multi-scalar procedures, gradually constructing the typological, structural and aesthetic connections that define the special characteristics of the form of architectural space. The acquisition of this ability allows the project to be interpreted as a tool capable of relating objects - as compositions of plastic forms - architecture and the city - the fixed scene of human events - through the definition of multiple systems of relationships. The landscape - artificial or natural, but always understood in its morphological components, hence also geographical and geological - plays an active role in the definition of spatial sequences where interior and exterior are parts of a single narrative.
It deals with the construction of a small building with a simple programme, grafted into the specificity of a given place. The project theme involves some fundamental tensions: individual and collective, public space and private dimension, typological, structural and expressive choices, exterior and interior, nature and artifice. Drawing and model building will be fundamental tools of analysis and design.
The students will thus have the opportunity to put into practice with the project the experiences acquired in terms of the measurement and configuration of space, the identification of formal structures and their expression through construction choices, and the search for the most appropriate character for the definition of the theme. The objective is to root the geometric-abstract dimension of the project in the specific identity of the place, with its identity, history and geographical condition.

Le Corbusier, Verso una architettura, Longanesi, 2003
Fernando Távora, Dell'organizzazione dello spazio, nottetempo, 2021
Jörn Utzon, Idee di architettura. Scritti e conversazioni, Christian Marinotti, 2011
Francesco Venezia, Che cos’è l’architettura, Milano 2011
Francesco 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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