The "Architectural Design and Construction 5th year" course (8 credits) is part of the educational offer of the DEGREE LABORATORIES, in particular the "Project and Context" course, in collaboration with the discipline of "Technological Design".
Then the course is conducted in close collaboration between Architectural and Urban Design (icar14), Urban Planning (icar21), Technological Design (icar12).
The course - for years now has been included in the weeks dedicated to the cultural and planning event of the Summer School (from 31 August to 10 September 2022).

The theme is linked to the areas of the smaller towns and the regeneration of abandoned buildings and services or the provision of new spaces and services provided by the villages, in particular the village of San Valentino in Abruzzo Citeriore (PE).

Antonio De Rossi and AA.VV., "Rehabiting Italy"
Antonio De Rossi and AA.VV., "Metromontagna"
Domenico Corsosimo, Carmine Donzelli, "Manifesto to re-inhabit Italy"
Vito Teti, "What remains"
Enrico Borghi, "Little Italies"
Luca Martinelli, "Italy is beautiful inside"
Francesco Erbani, "The Italy that doesn't fit!"

The volumes of the magazine “ARCHALP” and the architecture magazines (all).

Further updates of the bibliography will be indicated during the lessons.

For the course "Architectural design and construction 5th year" the objective is strongly linked to the development mainly of the areas of architectural and urban planning, assuming as a determining value the relationship with the context of the intervention (between the scales of the landscape, of the project urban, architectural scale and building construction), in a close didactic management of the course and cultural collaboration between Architectural and Urban Planning (icar14), Urban Planning (icar21), Technological Planning (icar12).
Knowledge of the reading, interpretative and representative tools of the landscape scale, the architectural scale, up to the scale of the building artifact.
The prerequisites are related to the knowledge of the basic disciplines and to all the prerequisites of the three disciplines that contribute to the definition of the Course.
An accurate and mature knowledge and understanding of a written text and a technical paper and reference projects for different themes are hoped for.
The individual ability of each student is hoped to be able to argue a capacity for critical reading and planning foreshadowing through the culture of design in architecture, from the development of project thinking (definition of a program in response to a demanding or problematic framework) up to the representation of the project (done both by hand and with the use of digital tools).
The ability to create and define study models and project maquettes is strongly hoped for.
Finally, it is necessary to have: creativity, passion and love for architecture.

The course takes place as a "workshop" (within the Dd'A summer school), concentrating in about ten days, the "arm by arm" work of students, teachers and administrators who share, together, the effort choral of an intense and participatory study.
In some days the group of students with the teachers will carry out the didactic activity "in the field" (directly staying for 3 days on Valentine's Day), organizing moments of study, knowledge, exchange and collective conviviality (between project and community ).
There will be moments of confrontation with the administration and citizens, with guests and teachers invited on the "study days" included in the program, and between the students themselves (of the 5th year).
It is emphasized that during the second week of the workshop exchange and teaching activities will also be intertwined with guests and students of the "year workshops" of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th year of the Architectural Design courses (so as to allow an exchange / knowledge / experience among students of different years).

Other information will be communicated directly in the classroom during lesson hours and / or collective reviews.

The learning test will take place day after day during the daily collective reviews.
The exam will be (both individual and in a group of maximum 2-3 students) and will consist of a discussion on the results of the analysis and project conducted and proposed during the work of the workshop (in close synergy between the colleagues of the disciplines that compete in the Laboratory of Degree: Architectural Design, Urban Planning and Technological Design).