The laboratory deals with the design of urban space as a strategic dimension in the management of the transformations of contemporary city. An intermediate disegn dimension between architectural project and town planning allows to: define space and urban form giving identity to the intervention; prefigure habits giving way also to informal practices; combining architectural character and programmatic indeterminacy. A strategic role will therefore be assigned to public space, such as a structuring element able to deliver a strong identity that will be not compromised over time by changes or replacements.

Colin Rowe e Fred Koetter, Collage city, Milano, Il saggiatore, 1981
Poesia del luogo e collage city, Casabella n. 492, giugno 1983, p. 26
Bernard Huet, La città come spazio abitabile. Alternative alla Carta di Atene, in Lotus 41, 1984
Manuel De Solà Morales, Un’altra tradizione moderna. Dalla rottura dell’anno trenta al progetto urbano moderno, in «Lotus International» n. 64, 1989, L’altra urbanistica, pp. 6-32
Marc Augé, Nonluoghi. Introduzione a una antropologia della surmodernità, Elèuthera, Milano, 1992
Casabella n. 597-598, 1993, Il disegno degli spazi aperti (in particolare André Corboz, Il territorio come palinsesto, pp. 22-27)
Paolo Desideri, Massimo Ilardi (a cura di), Attraversamenti. I nuovi territori dello spazio pubblico, Costa & Nolan, Milano 1997
Oswald Mathias Ungers, La città dialettica, Skira, Milano 1997
Cristina Bianchetti, Abitare la città contemporanea, Skira, Milano 2003
Gilles Clement, Manifesto del terzo paesaggio, Quodlibet, Macerata 2004
Rem Koolhaas, Junkspace, Quodlibet, Macerata 2006
Landscape Urbanism, lotus 150, 2012
Caterina Padoa Schioppa, Transcalarità e adattabilità nel Landscape Urbanism, 2012

CARMONA M. E TIESDELL S., 2007, URBAN DESIGN READER, ARCHITECTURAL PRESS, ELSEVIER: OXFORD
Carmona, M., Heath, T., Oc, T., Tiesdell, S., 2003, Public Places - Urban Spaces: A Guide to Urban Design, ARCHITECTURAL PRESS, ELSEVIER: OXFORD
CONSONNI G. C., 1986, STRADA, IN URBANISTICA, 83
CROSTA P. L., 2001, SPAZIO PUBBLICO, IN FOEDUS
GABELLINI P., 2002, IL PROGETTO DELLO SPAZIO PUBBLICO: FONDAMENTO E PROBLEMA DEL PIANO URBANISTICO, IN C. MATTOGNO, A CURA DI, IDEE DI SPAZIO, LO SPAZIO NELLE IDEE. METROPOLI CONTEMPORANEE E SPAZI PUBBLICI, ANGELI /GIANGRANDE.81.DPSU 2
GEHL J., 1991, VITA IN CITTÀ, MAGGIOLI EDITORE, RIMINI
JACOBS J., 1998, VITA E MORTE DELLE GRANDI CITTÀ, COMUNITÀ, TORINO
KOOLHAAS REM, 2006, JUNKSPACE, ED. QUODLIBET
LYNCH, K, 2006 L’IMMAGINE DELLA CITTA’, MARSILIO: VENEZIA
ROSSI, A, 1978, L’ARCHITETTURA DELLA CITTA’, CITTA’ STUDI EDIZIONI
TOSI, A. 2001 Quartiere, in Territorio n. 9
WHYTE W. H., 2003, L’IDEA DELLA STRADA, LOTUS INTERNATIONAL 118

The aim of the course is to give the theoretical basis of Urban Design in Europe and in the US. The relationship between Urban Design and Architecture on one side, and Planning on the other is analyzed, together with the configuration of Urban Design as an independent discipline.
Urban Design involves architects, urbanists, planners, landscape architects and engineers in the building of livable neighborhoods, public space, in other words in the process of place making. In this process, the involvement of inhabitants is particularly important. Urban Design is a holistic discipline, intended at making the most successful urban place from many points of view.
However, the majority of Urban Design theories are just partial theories, focusing on specific dimension of the discipline, such as morphology, perception, aesthetics, society, use and function. All these different approaches will be tackled, through the most important authors. Starting from these theoretical streams, the course will illustrate some tools of urban analysis such as figure-ground, building typologies, cognitive maps, and observation of public space’s use.

SPAGNOLI L. 2008 STORIA DELL’URBANISTICA MODERNA. VOL I E II, ZANICHELLI
Benevolo, L. 1991, Le origini dell’urbanistica moderna, Laterza: Bari
CARMONA M. E TIESDELL S., 2007, URBAN DESIGN READER, ARCHITECTURAL PRESS, ELSEVIER: OXFORD (letture selezionate )
HEBBERT M. (2006) Town planning versus urbanismo, Planning Perspectives, 21, pp. 233-251
Carmona, M., Heath, T., Oc, T., Tiesdell, S., 2003, Public Places - Urban Spaces: A Guide to Urban Design, ARCHITECTURAL PRESS, ELSEVIER: OXFORD
SITTE, Camillo, L’arte di costruire le città, Officine Grafiche dell'Editore Antonio Vallardi – Milano, 1953
CONSONNI G. C., 1986, STRADA, IN URBANISTICA, 83 BIBLIOTECA_CONSULTAZIONE,
CROSTA P. L., 2001, SPAZIO PUBBLICO, IN FOEDUS
GABELLINI P., 2002, IL PROGETTO DELLO SPAZIO PUBBLICO: FONDAMENTO E PROBLEMA DEL PIANO URBANISTICO, IN C. MATTOGNO, A CURA DI, IDEE DI SPAZIO, LO SPAZIO NELLE IDEE. METROPOLI CONTEMPORANEE E SPAZI PUBBLICI, ANGELI /GIANGRANDE.81.DPSU 2
GEHL J., 1991, VITA IN CITTÀ, MAGGIOLI EDITORE, RIMINI,
JACOBS J., 1998, VITA E MORTE DELLE GRANDI CITTÀ, COMUNITÀ, TORINO
KOOLHAAS REM, 2006, JUNKSPACE, ED. QUODLIBET
LYNCH, K, 2006 L’IMMAGINE DELLA CITTA’, MARSILIO: VENEZIA
ROSSI, A, 1978, L’ARCHITETTURA DELLA CITTA’, CITTA’ STUDI EDIZIONI
TOSI, A. 2001 Quartiere, in Territorio n. 9
Trancik, R. 1986, FINDING LOST SPACE: THEORIES OF URBAN DESIGN,Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York
WHYTE W. H., 2003, L’IDEA DELLA STRADA, LOTUS INTERNATIONAL 118

The course is given through a synergy between three different but complementary disciplines such as restoration, design and strength of materials that will arise in relation to a common theme: the study and interpretation of the existing city.
Knowledge of the city is achieved by means of questions about its composition, its history, its becoming; by means of interdisciplinary theoretical and practical research about the enhancement of the existing city.
In the course will be discussed about the character training, typological and constructional of the historic city and then up to the scale of the building and its construction characteristics, so as to deepen their knowledge of technological components and structural of the pre-modern heritage.
The course aims to provide to the students the tools of understanding and analyze the urban historical context with the objective of possible restauration interventions.
The goal to be achieved is to correlate different themes, interests and attitudes to the knowledge and control of the structure of the city. The knowledge ment as in-depth understanding of urban transformations through historical research, cartography reading, typological study, the structural control of the architecture and then the graphical design finalized to the urban and architectural restoration and recomposition.
There will be a practical exercise on a given topic that will be developed at different representation scales: it will cover initially the entire historic center of Rome down to the size of neighborhood and a single street.
Through this project, students will have the opportunity to test the ability of interpretation and reading of historical buildings: starting from the architectural survey and the subsequent critical and philological analysis of the historic center of Rome, in order to acquire the methodology for a correct intervention of recovery, transformation or restoration.
The course is developed with lectures ex cathedra, visits and inspections, debates.
During the weekly meetings part of the time available will be devoted to a "laboratory" in which there will be graphic tutorials, reviews, thematic analysis in the presence of teachers who will provide practical explanations from time to time on the exercises to be performed.
The periodic review of the projects, exercises, trials, is an integral part of the learning path.
Mid-term evaluations are foreseen together with lectures and laboratory. Student's attendance is required.
The examination consists in the discussion and evaluation of the assignments and drawings gradually developed during the course and the presentation of a "notebook" containing all the exercises made in the classroom, at home and outside.

Restauro:
S. Muratori, R. Bollati, S. Bollati, G. Marinucci, Studi per una operante storia urbana di Roma, Roma, Centro Studi di Storia Urbanistica, 1963
G.Caniggia, G.L.Maffei: Lettura dell’edilizia di base, Venezia 1979
M. G. Corsini: Tipi e tessuti del centro storico di Roma. Lettura del costruito per il progetto, Edizioni Kappa, Roma, 1998.
Guide Rionali di Roma, Rione I Monti (4 parti), Rione X Campitelli (4 parti), fratelli palombi editori, Roma 1984.
AA.VV. Architettura e urbanistica-uso e trasformazione della città storica, collana Roma Capitale 1870-1911, Marsilio ed. 1984
F.Giovanetti (a cura di): Manuale del recupero del comune di Roma, edizioni dei, Roma 1997.
L. Barroero, A. Conti, A.M. Racheli, M. Serio, Via dei Fori Imperiali – la zona archeologica di Roma: urbanistica, beni artistici e politica culturale, Marsilio, Roma 1983.
M.G.Ercolino: La città negata, Ginevra Bentivoglio editoria, Roma 2013.

Analisi e rappresentazione urbana:
R. Arnheim. Arte e percezione visiva. Milano 1965.
M. De Simone. Disegno, rilievo, progetto. Il disegno delle idee, il progetto delle cose. Roma 1990.
E. E. Viollet le Duc. Storia di un disegnatore. Cavallino. Venezia 1992.
M.Docci e D. Maestri. Scienza del disegno. Torino 2000.

Scienza delle costruzioni:
G.Cangi: “Manuale del recupero strutturale antisismico”, edizioni dei, Roma 2005.
A.Giuffré: Letture sulla Meccanica delle Murature Storiche, Edizioni Kappa, Roma 1991.
A.Giuffré: La meccanica nell’architettura, La Nuova Italia Scientifica, Roma 1986.

Course programme
The course is given through a synergy between three different but complementary disciplines such as restoration, design and strength of materials that will arise in relation to a common theme: the study and interpretation of the existing city.
Knowledge of the city is achieved by means of questions about its composition, its history, its becoming; by means of interdisciplinary theoretical and practical research about the enhancement of the existing city.
In the course will be discussed about the character training, typological and constructional of the historic city and then up to the scale of the building and its construction characteristics, so as to deepen their knowledge of technological components and structural of the pre-modern heritage.
There will be a practical exercise on a given topic that will be developed at different representation scales: it will cover initially the entire historic center of Rome down to the size of neighborhood and a single street.
Through this project, students will have the opportunity to test the ability of interpretation and reading of historical buildings: starting from the architectural survey and the subsequent critical and philological analysis of the historic center of Rome, in order to acquire the methodology for a correct intervention of recovery, transformation or restoration.

didactic methods
The course is developed with lectures ex cathedra, visits and inspections, debates.
During the weekly meetings part of the time available will be devoted to a "laboratory" in which there will be graphic tutorials, reviews, thematic analysis in the presence of teachers who will provide practical explanations from time to time on the exercises to be performed.
The periodic review of the projects, exercises, trials, is an integral part of the learning path.
Mid-term evaluations are foreseen together with lectures and laboratory. student's attendance is required.

learning assessment procedures
The examination consists in the discussion and evaluation of the assignments and drawings gradually developed during the course and the presentation of a "notebook" containing all the exercises made in the classroom, at home and outside.

- R. Arnheim, Arte e percezione visiva, Milano 1965
- M. De Simone, Disegno, rilievo, progetto. Il disegno delle idee, il progetto delle cose, Roma 1990
- E. E. Viollet Le Duc, Storia di un disegnatore, Cavallino, Venezia 1992
- M. Docci e D. Maestri, Scienza del disegno, Torino 2000

Learning Objectives:
The course aims to provide students with the tools of understanding and analysis of the urban historical context with a view to possible interventions of recovery, transformation or restoration.
The goal to be achieved is to correlate themes, interests and attitudes different to the service of the purpose to be achieved: the knowledge and control of the structure of the city.
Knowledge understood as deepening and control of urban transformations through historical research, reading maps, typological study, the structural control of the architecture and the graphical design of the urban and architectural restoration.

Course content:
The course is given through a synergy between three different but complementary disciplines such as restoration, design and strength of materials that will arise in relation to a common theme: the study and interpretation of the existing city.
Knowledge of the city is achieved by means of questions about its composition, its history, its becoming; by means of interdisciplinary theoretical and practical research about the enhancement of the existing city.
In the course will be discussed about the character training, typological and constructional of the historic city and then up to the scale of the building and its construction characteristics, so as to deepen their knowledge of technological components and structural of the pre-modern heritage.

There will be a practical exercise on a given topic that will be developed at different representation scales: it will cover initially the entire historic center of Rome down to the size of neighborhood and a single street.
Through this project, students will have the opportunity to test the ability of interpretation and reading of historical buildings: starting from the architectural survey and the subsequent critical and philological analysis of the historic center of Rome, in order to acquire the methodology for a correct intervention of recovery, transformation or restoration.

teaching methods:
The course is developed with lectures ex cathedra, visits and inspections, debates.
During the weekly meetings part of the time available will be devoted to a "laboratory" in which there will be graphic tutorials, reviews, thematic analysis in the presence of teachers who will provide practical explanations from time to time on the exercises to be performed.
The periodic review of the projects, exercises, trials, is an integral part of the learning path.
Mid-term evaluations are foreseen together with lectures and laboratory. Student's attendance is required.

how learning occurs:
The examination consists in the discussion and evaluation of the assignments and drawings gradually developed during the course and the presentation of a "notebook" containing all the exercises made in the classroom, at home and outside.

Restoration:
S. Muratori, R. Bollati, S. Bollati, G. Marinucci, Studi per una operante storia urbana di Roma, Roma, Centro Studi di Storia Urbanistica, 1963
G.Caniggia, G.L.Maffei: Lettura dell’edilizia di base, Venezia 1979
M. G. Corsini: Tipi e tessuti del centro storico di Roma. Lettura del costruito per il progetto, Edizioni Kappa, Roma, 1998.
Guide Rionali di Roma, Rione I Monti (4 parti), fratelli palombi editori, Roma 1984.
AA.VV. Architettura e urbanistica-uso e trasformazione della città storica, collana Roma Capitale 1870-1911, Marsilio ed. 1984
F.Giovanetti (a cura di): Manuale del recupero del comune di Roma, edizioni dei, Roma1997.
G.Cuccia (a cura di): Via Cavour, una strada della nuova Roma, Palombi editori.
M.G.Ercolino: La città negata, Ginevra Bentivoglio editoria, Roma 2013.
Urban analysis and representation:
R. Arnheim. Arte e percezione visiva. Milano 1965.
M. De Simone. Disegno, rilievo, progetto. Il disegno delle idee, il progetto delle cose. Roma 1990.
E. E. Viollet le Duc. Storia di un disegnatore. Cavallino. Venezia 1992.
M.Docci e D. Maestri. Scienza del disegno. Torino 2000.
Structures:
G.Cangi: “Manuale del recupero strutturale antisismico”, edizioni dei, Roma 2005.
A.Giuffré: Letture sulla Meccanica delle Murature Storiche, Edizioni Kappa, Roma 1991.
A.Giuffré: La meccanica nell’architettura, La Nuova Italia Scientifica, Roma 1986.

Program: the course of “History of the city and the territory” (monograph) provides investigations of the city through sections included between antiquity and the middle of XVIII century. Special attention is reserved to the study of italian cities and to urban transformations of Roma. The various sections will concern topics of special interest. In particular will be processed the following topics: ”Italy before Roma”; “Ancient Roma: from the foundation of the city to the constantinian age”; “Roma in italy – urban expansion-contraction between late antiquity and early middle age”; “Distinctive characters of islamic city”; “Natural and rational city in the middle age”; “Models and types of cities” (in particular: Siena, Pisa, Firenze, Gubbio); “Military and ideal city in the treatises and in the practice of urban transformations”; “Introduction to the renaissance city - palace and city” (in particular: Urbino, Ferrara and Pienza); “Renaissance Roma”; “Architecture and city in the state of Farnese”; “Napoli and Palermo capitals of southern Italy between XV and XVI century”; “Baroque Roma”; “Late baroque and neoclassical Roma”; “Capital cities of the eighteenth century in Europe”.

Texts: books, papers and other material will be shown to class. In particular, for the study of renaissance and medieval city are recommended the following texts: E. Guidoni, Storia dell' urbanistica – il medioevo, secoli VI-XII, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1991; E. Guidoni, La città dal medioevo al rinascimento, Roma-Bari, Laterza 1981.
For the study of Roma in the XVIII century is recommended the following text: P. Micalizzi, Roma nel XVIII secolo, Roma, Kappa, 2003.

The course deals with the themes of the project at the urban scale in the methods provided by the town plan of the city of Rome, with a focus on issues such as: the urban redevelopment of the city, the re-use of public assets dismissed, the implementation of the objectives of the project tackling the climate change (reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, resistance to extreme weather events), forms of collective participation in the different phases of the project, the use of innovative legal approaches (urban equalization, local management of development rights, the creation of public services with the use of PPP formulas), the infrastructural facilities of the suburban areas and infrastructural equalization at the urban scale.
The laboratory provides advanced elements of urban planning at the scale of operational municipal planning, with reference to the reading of the overall scale.

Theme: urban transformation along the rail tracks in Rome
The context of the study is the Rome metropolitan area. The specific territorial scope corresponds exercise area affected by rail system (metro, tram), existing and planned especially along the stretch of the Tiber River to the north of Rome, the Flaminio district to the alluvial plain between the Tiberina and Salaria.

The products will concern the development of intervention programs for urban renewal and the restoration of the landscape values ​​of critical contexts characterized by the existence of public goods that can serve as a driver for a higher viability of urban regeneration interventions and the most advanced pursuit of public interest objectives.
Planning results will depart from the design patterns in the Plan of Rome, in particular by Areas of Strategic Planning and the diagrams for the city to be renovate.

Particularly the intervention hypotheses concern the contexts where harder is the risk from phenomena related to climate change in progress, to measure the feasibility of urban transformation projects including settlement transfer and ecological regeneration of the settlements; and those characterized by large public properties involved in privatization of assets (former forts and barracks, owned by municipal utilities such as AMA and ATAC, various state-owned assets).
Noteworthy among others: the township of Labaro-Prima Porta; the scope of the Tiber north of the GRA in Ponte Milvio, on both banks; the Foro Italico and public properties around the Foreign Ministry; Piazzale Maresciallo Giardino.
Particular attention will be paid to structural conditions (physical, economic, social) for the production of public goods and for their renewal, including through quantitative verification of infrastructures and the comparison of the indicators measured with indicators defined by the service objectives. A specific regard will be aimed at the territorial energy efficiency themes, as a condition of feasibility for urban regeneration interventions.

Calthorpe P. “New Urbanism” http://www.newurbanism.org/

Carfree Cities - http://www.carfree.com/

Climate Booklet for Urban Development Online - Indications for Urban Land-Use Planning
http://www.staedtebauliche-klimafibel.de/Climate_Booklet/index-1.htm

Comune di Roma, Nuovo PRG 2003 www.urbanistica.comune.roma.it

De Pascali P. (2008 ) “Città ed energia”, Angeli, Milano

Gabellini P. (2001) “Tecniche urbanistiche”, Carocci, Roma

Gabellini P. (2010) “Fare urbanistica. Esperienze, comunicazione, memoria.” Carocci, Roma

Giammarco C., Isola A. (1993) “Disegnare le periferie. Il progetto del limite”, Nuova Italia Scientifica, Roma

Dovey K, Woodcock I eds (2014), “Intensifying Melbourne. Transit-Oriented Urban Design for Resilient Urban Futures”
http://msd.unimelb.edu.au/sites/default/files/docs/Intensifying%20Melbourne%202014_180dpi.pdf

Ombuen S., Ricci M., Segnalini O. (2000) “I programmi complessi”, Il Sole 24 Ore, Milano

Pallottini R. (1999) a cura di, “I nuovi luoghi della città”, Fratelli Palombi, Roma

Tocci W. (2008) “La città del tram”, in Tocci W., Insolera I., Morandi D., “Avanti c’è posto”, Donzelli, Roma

The academic course, complemented by the urban planning workshop, is aimed to deal with:
- Basic Elements of the planning law for the analysis of the urban functions.
- The organization of the public powers in the field of planning law: State, Regions, Local governments
- The new Titolo V and the “governo del territorio”;
- The planning instruments: general law.
The power of planning law and the town plan.
Urban destination of the grounds: the conformative rules of the territory and the property.
The protective restriction “morfologico o ricognitivo” and the protection of the primary interest.
- The town plan (PRG): procedure and content
The division of the town plan “in piano strutturale” and “piano operativo” in the regional law.
The Legal Foundation of Contracting Urban Planning Measures: the procedural agreements (art.11 l.241/90)
The “perequazione” and the overcoming of the technique of zoning: the “comparti” and the mixed areas.
The sustainability of the processing choices. The SEA (Strategic Environmental Assessment).
The protection rules and the protection instruments.
- The management of the town plan (PRG):
Town implementation plan and contractual instruments. The use of contract in the implementation of town planning rules. The building of public works and the principle of competition.
- The requirements of the public works and the urban innovative instruments:
The project financinig “spurio”.
The competitive comparison.
The transfer of the development rights and the extraburden.
- The urban regeneration.
- The instruments of regeneration of the urban stock.
- Town planning of average area: the provincial coordinament town plan and the role of the Province as a Public Authority of the average area.
Legal nature, contents and procedure.
The effects of the local planning.
- The parallel “protections”: the area plans and the effects on the property.
River basin Plan (L.d.legsl.152/06)
Landscape Plan (D. Legsl.42/004 e succ.int.)
Parks Plan (L.391/94)
- The building law (TU 380/2001):
The control on the building activity: building license, SCIA, CIL.
The agreement license and the derogatory license.
The control activity of the municipality.

During the lessons, some real cases will be studied in order to acquire a concrete analysis of the town planning law.

Urbani-Civitarese Diritto Urbanistico, organizzazione e rapporti. Giappichelli. Torino 2017, 5 ed.
P.Urbani, Urbanistica solidale Giappichelli 2013

The course "Progetto degli Spazi Aperti" proposes a study on the feasibility of the first Widespread Botanical Garden of Rome.
The design of the Botanical Garden is an opportunity to re-consider two urban different realities of the city, part of Ostiense and Valco San Paolo Districts.
Some surveys will be carried out during the course, in order to take not only data and informations, but also sensitivity to the perception of the elements that collaborate to the shape of the "open spaces."
Following the next survey and critical analysis of the area, it will work in the classroom by design.
The experimentation on this project will be based on the research of a design matrix that can redefine an urban identity through the re-reading of the structure of the city and the use of different habitats that contribute to the formation of a botanical garden.
The classroom work will be supported by lectures on the theory and practice of landscape discipline and botany.

This is a programme for students of Architecture who are interested to plant ecology. The programme is divided in two parts. The first one is based on the main methodologies currently in use in plant biology and on the analysis of the problems connected to the conservation of the biodiversity and the management of the natural, rural and urban environment.
The second part is focused on the definition of environmental-structural models to help the design of the outdoor spaces with an in-depth examination of the Italian vegetation.

Course schedule: Introduction to plant ecology; Studies of the methodologies (Flora, Vegetation, Landscape); Current and potential vegetation; The main biomes in the world; Vegetation zones and bands in the Italian landscape; Phyto-climate of the Lazio region - Relations between climate, soil and vegetation; Succession primary and secondary - series of vegetation; Plant-Sociology and mapping of vegetation; Types of open spaces and environmental design.

Career prospects: The study programme has a clear focus on biodiversity and conservation biology to restore degraded areas and hopefully to increase the biodiversity, creating habitat and quality of the outdoor spaces.

With this course is possible to earn 2/10 credits of the design of open spaces.

AA.VV., 2010 – Ambiente, Paesaggio e Infrastrutture. Manuali e Linee Guida, ISPRA. 3 Vol.
Volume 1: http://www.isprambiente.gov.it/it/pubblicazioni/manuali-e-linee-guida/ambiente-paesaggio-e-infrastrutture-volume-1
Volume 2: http://www.isprambiente.gov.it/it/pubblicazioni/manuali-e-linee-guida/Ambiente-Paesaggio-e-Infrastrutture-Volume-II
Volume 3: http://www.isprambiente.gov.it/it/pubblicazioni/manuali-e-linee-guida/ambiente-paesaggio-e-infrastrutture-volume-iii

Blasi C., Paolella A., 1992 – Progettazione ambientale. La Nuova Italia Scientifica.
Ferrari M., Medici D., 1998 – Alberi e arbusti in Italia. Edagricole.
Pignatti S. (ed.), 1995 – Ecologia Vegetale. UTET.
Ubaldi D., 2003 – Flora, fitocenosi e ambiente. Elementi di geobotanica e fitosociologia. CLUEB editore.

This section deeply examines the comprehension and the representation of the territory and the urban space.
The students will explore several representation techniques from sketches to analysis and treatment of pictures and maps.
The program will also provide the tools to understand and interpretate the urban design, focusing on how different demands and purposes over the history have always produced different iconographic products.
Always focused on the modern and contemporary representation of landscape and with special attention to the contemporary languages, the program will be divided in four sections:
1. Theoretical and technical fundaments of landscape representation
2. Site visits to the project area
3. Individual exercise of representation techniques to improve the skills and gain further studio experience
4. The final presentation material to produce will be decided during the course

- aa.vv ., Rappresentazioni. Enciclopedia di urbanistica e pianificazione territoriale; Franco Angeli 1984
- R. Biassutti, Il paesaggio terrestre, Utet 1997
- M.G. Cianci, La dimensione figurativa del paesaggio. La rappresentazione del paesaggio nel progetto contemporaneo, in Il disegno dell'architettura fra tradizione e innovazione; Gangemi Editore 2002
- M.G. Cianci, Metafore. Rappresentazioni e interpretazioni di paesaggi; Alinea Editrice 2008
- M.G. Cianci, La rappresentazione del paesaggio. Metodi e procedure per l'analisi e la rappresentazione del paesaggio; Alinea Editrice 2008
- K. Clarck, Il paesaggio dell’arte; Garzanti 1985
- G. Cullen, The concise town scape, Architectural Press; Oxford 1971
- E. Turri, Il paesaggio come teatro. Dal territorio vissuto al territorio rappresentato; Marsilio Editori 1998
- M.C. Zerbi, Paesaggi della geografia; G. Giappichelli Editore 1993
- R. Gambino, Conservare - Innovare. Paesaggio, ambiente, territorio; Utet 1997

Sito Web: Rappresentazioneterritorioeambiente.Blogspot.Com

The course aims to provide students with competence for the design and calculation of conventional structures, with particular reference to concrete buildings with framed structure and the related technical standards. This purpose will be achieved through lectures, both theoretical and applied, that will guide the student in the preparation of the project of a multi-storey building in a seismic zone.

Books suggested:

AICAP Costruzioni in calcestruzzo. Commentario alleNorme Tecniche per le Costruzioni, DM 14 gennaio 2008

AICAP Dettagli Costruttivi di Strutture in Calcestruzzo Armato

AICAP Guida alla progettazione di strutture in calcestruzzo armato

The application theme will cover the design of a church building, and more precisely a parish complex in the district of Decima in Rome. This parish complex, according to the parameters regulated by the Vicariate of Rome, will belong to the type A, with functional spaces organized on limited surfaces.
A difficult subject for its strong symbolic value, in which are associated the need for a coherent spatial thinking on the sacred space of the liturgical hall (architectural scale) and a thought on the urban significance of the ecclesiastical building. A character that in a city like Rome has found over the centuries declinations of high architectural quality, which will be profitable for thought for the definition of the project.
The Parish complex, of contained dimensions, will be able to positively interact with the natural and built environment. To achieve this will require a careful reading of the neighborhood, able to single out the deep characters, physical, topographical, functional, but also metaphorical, of the existing settlement. Clearly visible characters in the INCIS Decima district, the work of a design team that includes among its members two of the most important protagonists of the Italian architectural history of the 20th century: Adalberto Libera and Luigi Moretti. A district that is one of the best examples of postwar public housing built in the capital.
To achieve this integration, it should be paid close attention to the areas of relationship between designed buildings and their surroundings, with particular regard to the definition of the attack on the ground, the open spaces, the collective use areas, the green areas close to the parish complex, and facilities dedicated to car parking. These spaces must be conceived and designed in an integrated manner, such as built portions.

Bibliography:

_ INCIS di Decima district:

P.O.Rossi, Roma. Guida all’architettura moderna, Roma bari, 1990, pp. 243-244.

S. Santuccio (a cura di), Luigi Moretti, Bologna,Zanichelli, 1986.

L. Finelli, Luigi Moretti la promessa e il debito, Roma, 1989, pp. 78-80.

E. Carrano, Luigi Moretti le opere romane, Roma, Prospettive, 2005, pp. 104-109.

L. Montevecchi, Moretti visto da Moretti dalle carte dell’Archivio Centrale dello Stato, Roma, Palombi, 2007, pp. 98-101.


_ Sacred space:

A. Cassi Ramelli, Edifici per il culto. Chiese cattoliche, protestanti e ortodosse- Moschee- Sinagoghe- Costruzioni monastiche e cimiteriali, Milano, Vallardi, 1946.

R. Schwarz: Costruire la chiesa Il senso liturgico nell’architettura sacra, Brescia, Editrice Morcelliana, 1999.

L. Moretti, Dove sono due o tre riuniti nel mio nome … (Matteo 18.20), in “Spazio”, estratti, novembre 1967, ora in F. Bucci, M. Mulazzani, Luigi Moretti opere e scritti, Milano, Electa, 2000, pp. 201-204.

R. Stegers, Sacred buildings, Basel, Birkhauser, 2008.


_ Modern churches in Rome:

S. Mavilio (a cura di), Guida all’architettura sacra Roma 1945-2005, Milano, Electa, 2006.

M. Petreschi, N. Valentin, Chiese della periferia romana 2000-2013. Dal Grande Giubileo all’anno costantiniano, Milano, Electa, 2013.

The assessment becomes a part of the design process, providing logical and methodological support and becoming an active component in the construction of the design. The evaluation, therefore, becomes a contribution to the implementation of the preferred solution in relation to context, to the actors involved in the process, and to feasibility, taking into account the numerous variables (socio-economic, environmental, financial, aesthetic, cultural, etc.). The module deals with the methods and techniques of project evaluation according to different approaches (financial, economic, multidimensional); finally, the module introduces methodologies that enable the assessment of the effects and impacts perceived by the community.
Specifically, the module deals with:
A brief summary of appraisal basics: appraisals principles and methods. Basics of international appraisal procedures. Total Economc Value: Theory and tecniques.
Methods and techniques of projects evaluation: financial methods (Investment Analysis), cash flows and measures of investment performance, project financing, economic methods (Cost-Benefit Analysis), multidimensional methods, Multicriteria Analysis (among which Electre methods, Dominant Regime Methods, Analytic Hierarchy Process, etc.) Community Impact Evaluation, direct and Deliberative methods to evaluate impact and effect perceived by community.

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.
Methods and techniques of projects evaluation
Miccoli S., "La valutazione nel progetto di restauro", in Carbonara G. (diretto da), "Trattato di Restauro architettonico", UTET, Torino, 1996.
Nijkamp P., Rietveld P., Voogd H., "Multicriteria evaluation in physical planning", North Holland Pubi. Amsterdam/New York.
Handsout provided during the module.

Programme
The course deals with the analysis, structuring and design of the urban space, considering its interaction with the built surroundings and with the local environmental factors, detecting compatibilities and incompatibilities, at various scales, with the aim to define appropriate actions.
A systematic approach to the investigation of the urban space liveability takes to define problems and alternative technical solutions, apt to meet users’ requirements as well as places propositions.
The course considers, methodologically and operationally, several ways of action in order to verify their congruence with both requests and then to evaluate, from the point of view of governing the process of transformation/conservation of the built environment, the appropriateness of the advanced hypothesis.
For the general aspects, the topics concern: the renewal of the built environment, consequent to uses evolution; the adaptation to performance and environment regulations; the urban and building upgrading by a bioclimatic approach. For the application aspect: the specificity of the conversion project; the feasibility study and the assessment methods; the definition of the fields of action and of the congruent technical solutions.
These topics are tackled focusing the attention on some possible overall solutions, implemented by innovative technical measures, aimed at improving the built environment performances for all users: accessibility, safety, comfort and attractiveness, both from the physical and psychological point of view, keeping in mind sustainability and environmental impact reduction as goals.

Teaching organization
The course is structured in two parts.
- one is theoretical, organized in lectures and short thematic seminaries;
- one is devoted to applied work, carried out both at university and at home, that takes the student to face some phases of the design process, concerning various levels of compatibility check and assessment, the definition and analysis of alternative technical solutions, the selection and drawing of the most appropriate ones.
The lectures are targeted, on the one hand, to provide a design methodology based on requirement/performance approach and implementation guidelines, on the other hand, to support students in the development of the theme of the year. The aim is to steer them towards the choice of energetically sustainable solutions, congruent with the prefixed performance goals, and of innovative technologies apt to use at the best the environment potentialities (eco-efficiency). Such solutions are to be applied in the re-design of the town connective texture, constituted by outdoor paths and sojourn places, and in the urban mobility re-organization, with the aim to control the interaction between buildings and urban spaces and to improve their liveability.

Methods for assessing learning
The student final evaluation will be based on her/his participation to the activities of the course, on the applied work carried out during the semester and on the oral examination. Students who do not hand over their applied work during the course period, or do not make it in a satisfactory way, will have to take a written/graphic examination, propaedeutic to the oral one.
The oral examination entails:
- a discussion on the applied work carried out during the semester;
- an illustration and defence of the final applied work developed for the exam;
- questions related to the course contents.

Suggested texts
Dessì V., Progettare il confort urbano, Sistemi Editoriali, Napoli, 2007;

Dierna S., Orlandi F., Buone pratiche per il quartiere ecologico. Linee-guida di progettazione sostenibile nella città della trasformazione, Alinea Editrice, Firenze, 2005;

Martincigh L., “Strumenti di intervento per la riqualificazione urbana”, Gangemi editore S.p.A., Roma, 2012;
Martincigh L., “Mobilità e qualità della vita nella terza età. Indicazioni di intervento per agevolare la fruizione dell’ambiente urbano – Mobility and Quality of life for senior citizens. Indications to improve the use of the urban environment.”, DEI, Roma, I, 2011;
Martincigh, L., La mobilità sostenibile: un toolbox per la valutazione dei progetti - Sustainable mobility: a toolbox for design assessment, DEI, Roma, 2009; 

Moudon v.a., edited by, Public streets for public use, Columbia University Press, New York (usa), 1991.

Suggestions for the texts on the methodological and on the application aspects will be given during the course.

Combining theoretical and insights offered by concrete cases elements, the course offers an interpretation of the city and the territory as areas where a confront of multiple stakeholders takes place, where the relationship between perceived problems and design solutions is often ambiguous and where it makes possible the testing of complex forms of intervention based on the mobilization of a large set of resources. Objective of the course is to enrich the perspective of the students about the complexity of the city governance processes with a view to increase the effectiveness of their future project activities and planning. In addition to the lectures (some of which are supported by the contribution of external experts), the active participation of students will be solicited through conducting two class-exercises (with delivery and discussion of the documents) and the production of a project for the final exam. The latter will consist of the design of a "quality incubator,", a space where we can introduce functions that can trigger a process of regeneration, which is being extended to the whole district. The context of study is the Municipality III of Rome and specifically the districts of Città Giardino Aniene Valli and Sacco Pastore.

Bianchetti C., a cura di, Territori della condivisione, Quodlibet, 2014
- Bonomo B., Il quartiere delle Valli, Franco Angeli 2007
- De Franciscis G., Rigenerazione urbana. Il recupero delle aree dismesse in Europa, Eidos Edizioni 1997
- De Matteis M., Del Bracco B., Figliola A., Rigenerare la città. Il social housing come opportunità di rinnovo urbano e sociale, IUAV, 2014
- Fabbri P., Ecologia del paesaggio per la pianificazione, Aracne Edizioni 2005
- Galassi A., Rizzo B., Città Giardino Aniene, Minerva Editore 2013
- Guccione B., Parchi e giardini contemporanei, Alinea Edizioni 2001
- Lerner J., Agopuntura urbana,
- Magnaghi A. , Il territorio degli abitanti. Società locali e autosostenibilità, Franco Angeli Editore, 1998.
- Magnaghi A., La rappresentazione identitaria del territorio. Atlanti, codici, figure, paradigmi per il progetto locale, Alinea, 2005.
- Palazzo A.L., Campagne urbane. Paesaggi in trasformazione nell’area romana, Gangemi, 2005.
- Rizzo B. et Alii, Il territorio di San Marino. Indirizzi per un paesaggio in trasformazione, Inu Edizioni, 2006
- Rizzo B., Palazzo A.L., Paesaggio, storia e partecipazione. La Convenzione Europea a San Marino, Officina Edizioni, 2009

The course “Innovations in planning” is made up of two modules: Urban Regeneration and Sustainability and climate adaptation.

The module Urban Regeneration will deal with the issues and with the most useful tools of urban and regional management, with particular reference to the integrated approaches considering jointly physical aspects (brownfields recovery, public spaces redevelopment , urban expansions), social issues and environmental aspects of urban settlements.

A particular attention will be given to cooperative tools amongst various public administrations and to collaborative tools between public and private subjects ( the so called Complex Plans and Urban Regeneration Programs) that nowadays represent the most innovative forms of city management in Italy.

The module will offer, as a practical assignment, a training detailed scale urban project on a site chosen by the student.

The Sustainability and climate adaptation module of the course will explain the various urban issues caused by climate change, exploring the experiences of climate adaptation carried out by European cities (Copenhagen, Rotterdam, London, Stockholm) and Italian cities (Bologna) to increase urban resilience, with particular reference to those seeking to reduce flood risks, to reduce heat island effects, to ensure the efficiency of public transport, to protect green areas and biodiversity.

As a practical assignment, the module will include the elaboration of a detailed adaptation project applied to an area of Rome characterized by severe climate issues.

The course “Innovations in planning” will activate forms of coordination with the Degree Laboratory “Resilient City, Resilient Society”

- Roberto Bobbio ed altri, Urbanistica Creativa, progettare l'innovazione nella città. Maggioli Editori 2008;
- Domenico Cecchini e Giordana Castelli, Città Sostenibili. Gangemi Editori 2012.
- Paolo Avarello, I Programmi Urbani Complessi: scenari e prospettive;
- Paolo Avarello, Il Progetto Urbano. INU – Gruppo di Studio La città contemporanea;
- Paolo Avarello, Verso le politiche urbane.
- Andrea Filpa, Michele Talia, Fondamenti di governo del territorio, Carocci, 2009
- Walter Leal Filho, Handbook of climate change adaptation, Springer, 2015

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The course “Innovations in planning” is made up of two modules: Urban Regeneration and Sustainability and climate adaptation.

The module Urban Regeneration will deal with the issues and with the most useful tools of urban and regional management, with particular reference to the integrated approaches considering jointly physical aspects (brownfields recovery, public spaces redevelopment , urban expansions), social issues and environmental aspects of urban settlements.

A particular attention will be given to cooperative tools amongst various public administrations and to collaborative tools between public and private subjects ( the so called Complex Plans and Urban Regeneration Programs) that nowadays represent the most innovative forms of city management in Italy.

The module will offer, as a practical assignment, a training detailed scale urban project on a site chosen by the student.

The Sustainability and climate adaptation module of the course will explain the various urban issues caused by climate change, exploring the experiences of climate adaptation carried out by European cities (Copenhagen, Rotterdam, London, Stockholm) and Italian cities (Bologna) to increase urban resilience, with particular reference to those seeking to reduce flood risks, to reduce heat island effects, to ensure the efficiency of public transport, to protect green areas and biodiversity.

As a practical assignment, the module will include the elaboration of a detailed adaptation project applied to an area of Rome characterized by severe climate issues.

The course “Innovations in planning” will activate forms of coordination with the Degree Laboratory “Resilient City, Resilient Society”

- Francesco Musco, Rigenerazione urbana e sostenibilità. Franco Angeli 2015;
- Roberto Bobbio ed altri, Urbanistica Creativa, progettare l'innovazione nella città. Maggioli Editori 2008;
- Domenico Cecchini e Giordana Castelli, Città Sostenibili. Gangemi Editori 2012.
- Paolo Avarello, I Programmi Urbani Complessi: scenari e prospettive;
- Paolo Avarello, Il Progetto Urbano. INU – Gruppo di Studio La città contemporanea;
- Paolo Avarello, Verso le politiche urbane.
- Andrea Filpa, Michele Talia, Fondamenti di governo del territorio, Carocci, 2009

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