B028610 - ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN AND COMPOSITION

Italian

Through the investigation of architectural projects of the modern and the contemporary, the student will have to develop the ability to understand the meaning of the architectural space, its size, the relationship that it establishes with the context and the motivations of its time. The proposed architectures will be, according to function or character, preparatory to the subsequent educational objective, or to provide the student with a design method that seeks not the form, but principles that guide the composition of his project related to type, landscape and time, time intended both as a memory and as contemporaneity.

The teaching, divided into two parts, deals with architectural theory in the first part through a series of lectures on the main exponents of the modern movement. The first part wants to convey a method of research and analysis of the architectural principles that guide the genesis of the project.
The second part deals with architectural composition through design practice.

Those included in the course of studies.

Teaching is carried out through a cycle of lectures and laboratory activities in the classroom where the actual design activity will be carried out with drawings and models.
There will be inspections and visits.
To get access to the documentation and material for teaching in "remote" mode, you can send an email to
eleonora.cecconi@unifi.it

The final exam will take place through discussion of a project proposal for the entrance to the archeological park of Villa delle Grotte
Maximum useful surface area 500 square meters
Functional program:
• Ticket office
• Bookshop
• Educational workshop for small groups
• Restaurant
• Bar
• Services to the public
• Services for employees
• Arrangement of the external area including identification for a parking area for emergency vehicles and handicapped persons.
Compared to the excavation plan it is desirable not to exceed the height of an above-ground floor (max 5 meters from the altitude of 47 slm)
The project will be discussed during the exam through a 10-minute presentation and with a series of papers presented on 60X60 cm format tables. The tables can be freely composed but must contain at least the following documents:
• Insertion of the project in the context (technical drawing or photoplan) at 1: 100 scale
• Insertion of the project in the area of ​​the archaeological park on a 1: 500 scale
• Plants (all levels) in 1: 100 scale or 1:50 scale
• Sections (at least 2) in 1: 100 scale or 1:50 scale
• Elevations (at least 2) on a 1: 100 scale or 1:50 scale
• Exploded view on a 1: 100 scale or 1:50 scale
• Photomontage on the project area
• Report of about 4000 characters including spaces
• Optionally additional documents can be inserted (eg perspectives, renderings, route plans, architectural details ...)
 
Second exercise
Furthermore, two models will have to be made, one on a scale of 1: 500 to be included in the collective model that will be built in the classroom, and a model that is always 60X60 in scale 1: 100 or 1:50.
Different scales for the documents can be agreed with the teacher.

The course, divided into two parts, deals with architectural theory in the first part through a series of lectures on the main exponents of the modern movement. The first part wants to convey a method of research and analysis of the architectural principles that guide the genesis of the project.
Through the investigation of modern and contemporary projects, the student will have to develop the ability to understand the meaning of architectural space, its size, the relationship it establishes with the context and the motivations of its time. The proposed architectures will be by function or propaedeutic character to the subsequent educational goal, or to provide the student with a design method that seeks not the form, but principles that guide the composition of his project related to the type, landscape and time, intended time both as a memory and as contemporaneity.

Exam design specifications:

Functional program:
• Ticket office
• Bookshop
• Educational workshop for small groups
• Restaurant
• Bar
• Services to the public
• Services for employees
• Arrangement of the external area including identification for a parking area for emergency vehicles and handicapped persons.
Compared to the excavation plan it is desirable not to exceed the height of an above-ground floor (max 5 meters from the altitude of 47 slm)
The project will be discussed during the exam through a 10-minute presentation and with a series of papers presented on 60X60 cm format tables. The tables can be freely composed but must contain at least the following documents:
• Insertion of the project in the context (technical drawing or photoplan) at 1: 100 scale
• Insertion of the project in the area of ​​the archaeological park on a 1: 500 scale
• Plants (all levels) in 1: 100 scale or 1:50 scale
• Sections (at least 2) in 1: 100 scale or 1:50 scale
• Elevations (at least 2) on a 1: 100 scale or 1:50 scale
• Exploded view on a 1: 100 scale or 1:50 scale
• Photomontage on the project area
• Report of about 4000 characters including spaces
• Optionally additional documents can be inserted (eg perspectives, renderings, route plans, architectural details ...)
 

Furthermore, two models will have to be made, one on a scale of 1: 500 to be included in the collective model that will be built in the classroom, and a model that is always 60X60 in scale 1: 100 or 1:50.
Different scales for the documents can be agreed with the teacher.

Inspections and visits are planned.

General bibliography:

Architecture theory
Marc Augè, Rovine e macerie, Torino 2004
Le Corbusier, Verso un'architettura, Milano 1973
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Gli scritti e le parole, Milano 2010
Adolf Loos, Parole nel vuoto, Milano 1972
Carlos Martì Arís, Le variazioni dell'identità. Il tipo in architettura, Clup, Milano 1990. 
Rafael Moneo, La solitudine degli edifici, vol. 1, Torino 1999
Rafael Moneo, La solitudine degli edifici, vol. 2, Torino 2004
Ernesto N. Rogers, Esperienza dell'architettura, Torino 1958 (o Milano 1997)
Aldo Rossi, L'architettura della città, Padova 1966
Aldo Rossi, Autobiografia scientifica, Parma 1990
Francesco Venezia, Che cos'è l'architettura, Milano 2011
E. Tessenow, Osservazioni elementari sul costruire, F. Angeli, Milano,1993.

Specific bibliography
Pancrazzi O., Frequentatori di "ville di delizie": una visita di Ovidio all'Elba, Miscellanea in memoria di Giuliano Cremonesi, 1995, pp. 311–314.
Pancrazzi O., Ducci S., (a cura di), Ville e giardini nell'Elba romana, 1996.
Casaburo S., Elba romana. La villa delle Grotte, 1997.
L. Dallai, E. Ponta, E.J.Shepherd, Aurelii e Valerii sulle strade d'Etruria, in S. Menchelli, M. Pasquinucci, Territorio e produzioni ceramiche, 2006, pp. 181–192.
L. Alderighi, "La villa romana delle Grotte a Portoferraio", in Milliarium n. 11, Speciale Elba, 2014, pp. 46–61

Architectural theory
Marc Augè, Rovine e macerie, Torino 2004
Le Corbusier, Verso un'architettura, Milano 1973
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Gli scritti e le parole, Milano 2010
Adolf Loos, Parole nel vuoto, Milano 1972
Carlos Martì Arís, Le variazioni dell'identità. Il tipo in architettura, Clup, Milano 1990. 
Rafael Moneo, La solitudine degli edifici, vol. 1, Torino 1999
Rafael Moneo, La solitudine degli edifici, vol. 2, Torino 2004
Ernesto N. Rogers, Esperienza dell'architettura, Torino 1958 (o Milano 1997)
Aldo Rossi, L'architettura della città, Padova 1966
Aldo Rossi, Autobiografia scientifica, Parma 1990
Francesco Venezia, Che cos'è l'architettura, Milano 2011
E. Tessenow, Osservazioni elementari sul costruire, F. Angeli, Milano,1993.


Specific bibliography
Pancrazzi O., Frequentatori di "ville di delizie": una visita di Ovidio all'Elba, Miscellanea in memoria di Giuliano Cremonesi, 1995, pp. 311–314.
Pancrazzi O., Ducci S., (a cura di), Ville e giardini nell'Elba romana, 1996.
Casaburo S., Elba romana. La villa delle Grotte, 1997.
L. Dallai, E. Ponta, E.J.Shepherd, Aurelii e Valerii sulle strade d'Etruria, in S. Menchelli, M. Pasquinucci, Territorio e produzioni ceramiche, 2006, pp. 181–192.
L. Alderighi, "La villa romana delle Grotte a Portoferraio", in Milliarium n. 11, Speciale Elba, 2014, pp. 46–61.

To get access to the documentation and material for teaching in "remote" mode, you can send an email to
eleonora.cecconi@unifi.it