The aim is to provide students with the tools to know and develop critical thinking about building types and currently applied construction technologies; the Course is focused on HOUSING. The purpose is to provide dimensional, functional, organizational and aggregative indications of the housing; afterwords the typological aggregation of houses in multi-family buildings will be the focus and, finally, the construction technologies will be investigated. The result is to provide students with all the knowledge necessary to design Housing.
Course Prerequisites
Students have to know and be able to interpret and use the methods of architectural drawing in order to understand both the building types and the construction technologies. This knowledge is also indispensable for developing the architectural project.
Teaching Methods
Lessons. Design activities to develop a Housing Building.
Assessment Methods
During the year, the students (divided into groups who will work with tutors) are called to design a Housing Building on an assigned plot of land. The required technical drawings move from general plans to building details and will have to express the creativity, the acquired skills to solve design issues and the ability to work in team. The project must be delivered two days before the oral exam and will be evaluated out of thirty. On the day of the exam, the students who have obtained at least 18/30 (in the project) will take the oral exam. The oral exam is mandatory and will focus on the topics covered during the year. The oral test, if sufficient, can confirm or increase the vote obtained with the group project.
Texts
AA. VV., Strumenti per il progetto. La casa, Compositori editore, Bologna 2000. AA. VV., Progetto qualità edilizia, Edizioni Edilizia Popolare, Roma 2002. BARDELLI P. G., COPPO S. (a cura di), Il Cantiere Edile, Dario Flaccovio Editore, Palermo 2010. BOTTA M., CREPET P. (con ZOIS G.), Dove abitano le emozioni, Einaudi Stile Libero Extra, Torino 2007. EMERY N., Progettare, costruire, curare, Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2010. GRECO A., GULLI R., Innovazione ed evoluzione nel progetto della residenza. Le nuove frontiere per l’industrializzazione dell’housing in Italia, Edicom Edizioni, Monfalcone (Gorizia) 2010. HERTZBERGER H., Lezioni di Architettura, Editori Laterza, Bari 1996. MANDOLESI E., Edilizia vol. I, UTET, Torino 1978. MIES VAN DER ROHE, Gli scritti e le parole, (a cura di Vittorio Pizzigoni), Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi, 2010. PONTI G., Amate l’Architettura, Rizzoli, Milano 2008.
At the end of each lesson, further publications and technical journals (useful for deepening the various topics) will be indicated.
Contents
Introduction to building technologies and the building process for Housing. Dimensions and Organization of the spaces of the Housing. Housing building types: from the detached house to the tower. Technologies and construction elements: foundations, horizontals, elevation structures, vertical closures, roofs; hints of housing plants.
