Program:
Students will have to choose where to place the interconnection point described in the briefing, within the
perimeter of the study area. The project of this will take into account a whole series of issues related to the integration of
different functions, and of the common spaces and mediation between them. The study area will also have to be resolved
with a master plan that takes into account the complexity of the entire area and its importance in the life of the city.
The course is divided into two parts:
The Workshop - which will aim to make the area known and propose its accommodation;
The Project - will develop what is hypothesized in the workshop, arriving at the final exam;
First exercise: Inspection
The visit to the project area (now also virtual)
provides the opportunity to collect data, impressions and non-aspects
evident from the analysis of the materials made available, such as photos,
floor plans and aerial photogrammetry.
Looking at space with "other" eyes, in an unusual way, will help
to see unexpected, unknown elements that they may become
important for the project, allowing a shift towards directions
not provided. The study of the area, of the phenomena over time
they saw it involved in urban and parameter transformations
urban planning foreseen by the PRG, will complete the construction of
baggage of knowledge necessary to approach work. There
the first exercise, strictly individual, will consist of
drafting of a table in which to describe the area through the data
collected during the inspection and in which to provide the first information
about the necessary quantities of buildings, green spaces, parking lots.
Second exercise: knowledge and sampling
Many contemporary culture experts claim that we are
living in the era of sampling, that is a historical moment in which
nothing is invented from scratch but everything is obtained from the ability to
mix the existing elements to obtain a product that is
innovative in the process rather than in the form.
But the ability to sample requires great knowledge to
base. For this reason, the examples used should be
designed to identify which project can be used
as a reference for the continuation of the course. It's not about
select formal elements or solutions, but to understand the idea
which underlies the work identified to apply it to your project.
The second exercise will already see group work (max 2),
foresees three moments:
1. the choice of the reference project;
2. its redesign - a plan and a section - so that it is
possible to deepen and understand some aspects
specific;
3. the creation of a schematic concept in blocks,
through a maquette or virtual, which builds the idea
of the complex building through the sum of more
samples to respond to the request of the various
functions;
4. the overlap of the project in the area, with the
consequent manipulation that allows to establish a
dialectical relationship between area and complex building.
It will be a question of tailoring the chosen project using it
as a yardstick with which to measure the study area.
Third tutorial: text and images
The third tutorial will serve to sort the previous e
summarize with a short text (min 3000 characters max 5000 characters)
the selected project, motivating the choice and illustrating the
founding strategy.
Fourth exercise: sharing spaces
The last exercise will consist in the drafting of the general Master Plan, and of the building project
complex, which will be presented at the final exam. The members of the group will put together the work done
individually in order to continue the drafting of the project in a coordinated manner. The latter will have to
make use of grafts coming from other references from a predisposition to the modification and overcoming of
own limits.