Located in the first year of the Degree Course in Architectural Design, the course aims to
participate, through the representation of architecture and the environment to the development of
following skills:
• conceive and use representation as a tool for exploration, verification and
communication of the project idea and its realization;
• use the different techniques and the different representation tools depending on the
theoretical and practical reflections on the questions raised by the architecture analyzed.
General issues
1. Analysis and transcription of architectural projects of some architects, through the use of different
representation techniques
2. Communication of the study process of an architectural work, in its analytical phase and of
return.
Specific topics
In order to develop the themes indicated above, the following topics will be addressed:
1. Evolution of the project design from the art of nineteenth century construction to the period
contemporary
2. decompose the architecture. The graphical analysis for the knowledge of the architectural work.
3. The declinations of the design project for architecture: techniques and graphic models in the
poetics of some masters
4.Graphic techniques for the representation of the analysis and project concept
5. Digital design as a form of exploration and verification of spatial configurations
in two-dimensional and three-dimensional areas
6. Perspective control and digital space
7. 3D modeling: practical theoretical concepts for a conscious use of 3d modeling programs
8. Output techniques: static rendering
9. Output techniques: dynamic rendering
10. On the design of contemporary architects and in particular the study of the graphic production of the ABDR studio in Rome
The themes will be carried out through the analysis and re-design of unrealized architectural projects
of the ABDR study
Work phases / methods
We will proceed to a first graphic analysis by hand (plastic drawings and models) to understand
compositional logic, constituent elements and hypothesized spatial configurations. Then, a 3D digital model and we will proceed with the elaboration of images and animations to display the information gathered. The last phase will be dedicated to comunication with video processing.

CORSO DI RESTAURO ARCHEOLOGICO.
IL CORSO PROPONE LO STUDIO DI ALCUNE AREE ARCHEOLOGICHE DEL MEDITERRANEO: ATENE (ACROPOLI), POMPEI, ERCOLANO, PAESTUM, VILLA ADRIANA, ROMA (FORO ROMANO, PALATINO, FORI IMPERIALI), OSTIA ANTICA.
LE LEZIONI SONO DEDICATE ALLA STORIA DELLE TRASFORMAZIONI E DEI RIUSI CHE HANNO ACCOMPAGNATO LA PERDITA DELL'IDENTITÀ ARCHITETTONICA ORIGINARIA FINO AL MOMENTO DELLA SUA RIPROPOSIZIONE INTENZIONALE A PARTIRE DALLA SECONDA METÀ DEL SETTECENTO. DI QUESTA NUOVA TRADIZIONE SI ANALIZZANO IN DETTAGLIO LE DIVERSE MANIFESTAZIONI NEL CORSO DEGLI ULTIMI DUE SECOLI: SCAVI, RESTAURI, RICOSTRUZIONI, ANASTILOSI E PROGETTI DI VALORIZZAZIONE.
SONO PREVISTE ESERCITAZIONI FACOLTATIVE.

DURANTE LO SVOLGIMENTO DEL CORSO SARANNO CONSEGNATE LE BIBLIOGRAFIE RELATIVE AI DIVERSI ARGOMENTI DELLE LEZIONI E DELLE ESERCITAZIONI.

Cultural Heritage and regionalist architecture
From Modernism to the revival of Medieval architecture: history, studies and projects. Gustavo Giovannoni: urban restoration and decentralization of the residential neighbourhoods. It is possible to compare Giovannoni’s thoughts and interventions in the architectural field to interpret various aspects of his ideology on the ideal purpose and physical structure of the city. The debate on the “ambientismo” – fuelled by architects and honorary fellows, led by Giovannoni and the Associazione Artistica fra i Cultori di Architettura – recognise the historical architecture, as well as the picturesque feeling inherent the historical urban pattern, as a possible model both to thin out the urban pattern for a healthiness reason and to decentralize new residential districts. Therefore, the “ambientista” approach is clearly influenced by the urban principles of Camillo Sitte, Charles Buls and Joseph Stübben and by the idea of garden city of Ebenezer Howard and Raymond Unwin. Hence, between the 1910s and the 1920s, the ambientismo became the core principle of the urban and architectural project, identifying and reinterpreting the artistic and environmental features typical of each country, while considering the instances of modern building. It is possible to find this cultural orientation in various projects in Rome, such as San Saba, Aniene’s garden city in Montesacro, Ostia Nuova, the garden neighbourhood of Garbatella; all these projects were planned following Giovannoni’s theories and taking care of the relationship between “Vecchie città ed edilizia nuova”.

SUI CARATTERI COSTRUTTIVI:
- MANUALE DEL RECUPERO DEL COMUNE DI CITTÀ DI CASTELLO, A CURA DI F. GIOVANETTI , DEI, ROMA 1992.
- MANUALE DEL RECUPERO DEL COMUNE DI ROMA, II EDIZIONE AMPLIATA, A CURA DI FRANCESCO GIOVANETTI, DEI, ROMA 1997.
SULL’ARCHITETTURA REGIONALISTA:
- G. PAGANO, G. DANIEL, ARCHITETTURA RURALE ITALIANA, MILANO 1936.
- F.R. STABILE, LA GARBATELLA A ROMA. ARCHITETTURA E REGIONALISMO, EDITRICE LIBRERIE DEDALO, ROMA 2012.
- STORIA DELL’ARCHITETTURA ITALIANA - IL PRIMO NOVECENTO, A CURA DI G. CIUCCI, G. MURATORE, ELECTA, MILANO 2004, IN PARTICOLARE G. MURATORE, UNO SPERIMENTALISMO ECLETTICO, PP. 10-37; G. ZUCCONI, GLI ANNI DIECI TRA RISCOPERTE REGIONALI E APERTURE INTERNAZIONALI, PP. 38-55; G. MURATORE, EDILIZIA E ARCHITETTI A ROMA NEGLI ANNI VENTI, PP. 74-99; S. PORETTI, MODERNISMI E AUTARCHIA, PP. 442-476.

Design Workshop 2M will involve in-depth analysis of the design experience which was completed in Workshop 1M.
This in-depth analysis will relate to detailed design aspects, construction techniques, and the use of materials in line with the design choices that characterised the first phase.
Students will be asked to develop a part of the project, which has been deemed significant, by investigating aspects of construction - paying particular attention to technical and economic feasibility without losing sight of compositional consistency with regards to the first semester project.
Therefore this work should not be considered as the "engineering" of a project which has already been developed, but as an extension of the design research, which could also lead to a profound revision of what has already been produced

1. Introductory classes
Introduction to structural design:
a) systems with simply or multiple supported spans;
b) systems with structural overhang;
c) the structure of a multi-storey building.

2. Solid mechanics and beam model.
Statically determinate beam systems.
The Cauchy stress.
Introduction to mechanics of materials: steel, wood, reinforced concrete, glass. Characteristics strength and design strength. Basic concepts: elasticity and inelasticity, isotropy and anisotropy, fragility and ductility.
Bernoulli beam model and displacement fields in elastic beams.

3. Between Structural Mechanics and Structural Design.
Loads on structural elements: area of influence of a beam and a pillar.
Preliminary design of beams and a pillars. Stress and displacement analysis of simple beams, design checks. Cantilevers with variable section.
Design of a steel truss in 3D.
Statically indeterminate structures framed resolution methods: integration of the elastic line, force method and stiffness method. Features and benefits of the three methods. Applications of the force method and of the stiffness method. Shear-type frames – Vierendeel beams. Bracing systems: concepts and comparisons. The centre of a system of parallel vectors. The stiffness centre of a braced deck. Grid of beams under bending. Arches: circulars, parabolic. Concept of funicularity. Arch thrust and thrust elimination methods.
Introduction to 3D frames. Center of rigidity. Center of mass.
Introduction to structural dynamics. Resonance. Introduction to modal analysis. Applications to the preliminary design of framed structures.
4. Lessons of the software SAP2000 for modeling and analysis of the structures presented in the course.

The Laboratory will transmit knowledge about elements, devices and methods to read and design the architecture of urban space. Mostly, teaching will focus on relationships between building and open space architecture and among the different urban open spaces systems and the cultural, historical, environmental and economic processes connected with city shape.
Teaching provides theoretical communications and design seminars to work out the final project, in close collaboration with the other modules of the Laboratory.
The topic of the studio design is the topographical riconnection within the archaeological central area of Rome.