ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN 1

Segment

Course Sheet

Course code:

AI224

Academic Year of enrolment:

2021

Year of supply:

2021/2022

Divisions:

Gruppo A

Type of Course:

Characterising

Degree:

Course of Single Cycle Degree 5 years in ARCHITECTURE

Disciplinary Sector:

Architectural and Urban Composition

Is part of:

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN 1

Location:

PESCARA

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

POTENZA Domenico Antonio

Cycle:

Single Annual Cycle

Obligatory attendance:

Yes

Hours of classroom activity:

140

Individual study hours:

210

Prerequisites:

The Architectural Composition 1 course is presented as the initial design exercise of the study path, for which the attendance to the didactic activities must take into account the articulation of the program in which both disciplines will alternate .
Knowledge of basic historical disciplines and those of the science of representations are considered fundamental prerequisites for enrolling in the course.

Objectives

The articulation of the course program has as a training objective, the study of Architectural Composition integrated with the application of construction technologies aimed at a correct use of materials within a basic design experience, also in collaboration and with the coordination of Course of Materials and design of construction elements.
The course will provide the basic knowledge necessary for the simultaneous and interdependent control of the various design aspects: the technical-constructive, the distributive-functional and the compositional-formal, as well as the main historical references relating to the case studies, coordinated with the courses of History of Architecture 1 and Descriptive Geometry.
At the end of the course, students must have acquired the basic preparation relating to the knowledge and control of forms, materials and technologies, which are essential for understanding and governing the relationship between idea, design and implementation of architecture.

Contents

The Architectural Composition 1 course is aimed at studying and understanding the basic compositional techniques for the design of simple architectural organisms. The course is divided into two parts. The first part includes readings and interpretations of elementary architectural references, mainly referring to single-family living spaces. In the second part, those same architectural references form the basis for the design of small living spaces referring to assigned architectural-functional programs.
The architectural space, both in the reading phase, both in the interpretation phase and in the more properly project re-proposal, is broken down into its primary components with particular reference to: horizontal elements, bases, floors and roofs; vertical elements, walls and diaphragms; point elements, warps, structures and connections.
These components will be investigated not only in their physical dimension and spatial organization, but also in their material and constructive consistency, trying to highlight the often very clear relationship between forms, materials and technologies.
Understanding the primary components and their technical restitution is associated with the study of some fundamental themes on the organization of space such as: lightness, transparency, density, modifiability, seriality, overlapping of the parts etc ... indispensable the definition of a coherence framework within which to harmonize the individual parts.
The project, therefore, is configured as a sort of final balance in which the measure of the individual building elements and the size of the spaces they enclose find integration, within a compositional strategy capable of satisfying the reasons for the assigned architectural-functional program.

Extended Syllabus

The articulation of the course program has as a training objective, the study of Architectural Composition integrated with the application of construction technologies aimed at the correct use of materials within a basic design experience.
The course will provide the fundamental knowledge necessary for the simultaneous and interdependent control of the various design aspects: the technical-constructive one, the distributive-functional one and the compositional-formal one.
At the end of the course, students must have acquired the basic preparation relating to the knowledge and control of forms, materials and technologies, which are essential for understanding and governing the relationship between idea, design and implementation of architecture.

The Architectural Composition 1 course is presented as the initial design exercise of the study path, integrated with the discipline of Architectural Technologies, for which the attendance to the didactic activities must take into account the articulation of the program in which both disciplines will alternate .

The course will be divided into different seminars, the reviews will be held by tutors together with the course owner according to the dates foreseen in the didactic activity program. The reviews will be individual and will constitute the specific teaching activity of each seminar. In correspondence with the thematic workshops, collective reviews will be provided with the tutors with the course teacher and with the teachers invited to the workshop.

The exams are fixed by the calendar, beyond which no additional didactic activity will be carried out. Attendance to educational activities is mandatory and in itself constitutes a guarantee of admission to taking the exam within the year. Students are allowed to take the exam in single form with the identification of design strategies developed in groups.

Recommended Bibliography

 Ludovico Quaroni - “Designing a building, eight Architecture lessons” - Mazotta, Milan 1977
 Georges Perec - “Species of spaces” - Bollati Boringhieri, Turin 1989
 Kenneth Frampton “Tectonics and Architecture” - Skira, Geneva-Milan 1999
 Ester Mc Coy “Case study houses 1945-1962” - Hennessey & Ingalls, Los Angeles 1977
 John Howey - "The Sarasota School of architecture 1941-1966", The MIT Press - Cambridge, 1997
 Christopher Domin and Joseph King - "Paul Rudolph and the Florida houses", Pronceton Architectural Press - New York 2002
 Jan Hochstim - “Florida Modern”, Rizzoli International Publication - New York 2004
 Michael Webb - “Modernism reborn_mid-century American houses” - Universe publishing, New York 2001
 Susan Doubilet, Daralice Boles - The house in America today "- Universe publishing, New York 1997

Further updates of the bibliography will be indicated during the lessons

Teaching Methods

The teaching activity of the course consists of:
• ex cathedra lessons concerning the theme and its theoretical framework relating to architectural composition, held by the course owner.
• project insights related to specific aspects of the theme, presented by some guests invited to illustrate their work and research.
• thematic workshops, in relation to the different phases of the design activity, conducted by external experts together with the tutors and the course owner (according to the schedule provided by the course).

Among the various activities of the course there are also in-depth workshops held by the tutors and by the course owner, on the creation of models; on the elaboration of three-dimensional models, on the reading of design references, on materials and construction techniques.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

Progressive compulsory checks are foreseen according to the deadlines set by the didactic activities (and coinciding with the thematic workshops). Students are required to deliver the required documents according to the scheduled dates. The compulsory progressive checks are a guarantee for continuing the activity within the seminars and for the acquisition of the attendance qualification which entitles you to take the exam within the time frame provided for in the course program.
The exam is intended as the last didactic delivery offered by the Course to the student. The exams will be held as scheduled.
All students who have regularly attended the Laboratory will be entitled to take the exam on the fixed date.
The examination commission will be made up of all the teachers of the course, by teachers invited by the course owner, by the tutors and by any external experts.

Contacts/More Information

The course lasts one year.
The exams are fixed by the calendar, beyond which no additional didactic activity will be carried out. Attendance to educational activities is mandatory and in itself constitutes a guarantee of admission to taking the exam within the year. Students are allowed to take the exam in single form with the identification of design strategies developed in groups.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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