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Architecture Technology
REGGIO DI CALABRIA
Overview
Date/time interval
Syllabus
Course Objectives
In order to promote an in-depth path on the themes, of an exploratory nature, in the proposal articulated in the illustrated program, the cognitive method that includes theory, design and experimentation will be followed, as an iterative and complete experience for each thematic unit, with the production of thematic graphic works corresponding to each UT and with the construction of a glossary of paradigms illustrated in the theoretical lessons.
Furthermore, at the conclusion of the thematic units, the final test of the course is expected, with the development of a graphic and textual work that responds to the themes covered in the course - Construction of an informative, technical, graphic Disciplinary on an interscalar project theme.
The cognitive and exploratory path proposes the investigation and experimentation on the concept of "advanced sustainable project".
The sustainable project is always a "total design" capable of finding moments of compatibility with other dimensions of the environmental structures, those most related to the landscape and to the devices for the efficiency of the systems, to its systems, up to the verification and measurement of the economic feasibility and evaluation of the strategies that can be pursued, in regimes of hyper-sustainability of the short - long term and medium term. There is no longer a real need to distinguish between a sustainable approach to the project and a conventional way of thinking about the city, buildings, innovation of products for living services. It is a historical awareness that projects onto the economic crisis and the balance of the ecological system territory-city-places the only possible way to limit the consumption of exhaustible resources, to renew those of the local and supra-local bio-physical system, thinking univocally about the capacity of the same systems to produce total quality for living and for the environment and the landscape, in the physical, material and performance aspects. To the question of “Total Quality” the “Total Design” answers, “using advanced techniques involves preplanning. One must know what has to be done before doing it, so that one can organize the work properly. The key to a building operation ought to be what one might call the total design-which foresees and plans every stage in the operation. This total design must nowadays be the work of many people, each contributing his particular knowledge, an this team should be controlled by a strong leader now an executive team with power to decide priorities and reconcile conflicting claims”. (Ove Arup, 2012)
This goes beyond the meaning of an integrated design, by application sectors, skills and context areas and proposes a transversal awareness to control the design at all scales, from its programming intentions (definition of a master plan) to its figurative and technical declinations (project and detail). The definable design process that observes the methodology expressed for “sustainable total design”, proceeds according to a self-informative method, assuming, producing and testing with variable assets domains of data, design, simulations and mappings in strong relation with the scenarios that communicate the visions. (C.Nava, 2019)
The advanced design methodology for configuring resilient scenarios aims to identify operational steps of design and theoretical work, in order to respond with high performance to emerging environmental issues, to the effects due to climate change and to the application of circular models, for material resources and energy and environmental flows. Tools and devices specific to "total design" are referred to, capable of governing new structures at the urban, building and prototype scale. The identified steps will then become Thematic Units for the purposes of carrying out the activities.
STEP. 1 - The Environmental Responsibility of the Designer.
STEP. 2 - Circular and Resilient Cities, ecologically adaptive - Nature-based Solutions (NBS)
STEP. 3 - Advanced design for positive buildings - Passive/active hybrid system
STEP 4 - Advanced prototyping models with low environmental impact technologies
Course Prerequisites
In order to pass the exam for the discipline, students must have passed the exams for the disciplinary area of Architectural Technology, in the first and second year.
Teaching Methods
Lessons (hours/year in the classroom):40 h
Exercises (hours/year in the classroom):10 h
Practical activities (hours/year in the classroom): 10 h
Other: lessons will last 3 hours; seminars, experiments/exercises will last 2 hours
Assessment Methods
Course attendance is mandatory and is certified by the practical exercises at the end of each thematic unit included in the program.
0_ Classroom tests to assess basic knowledge (building a personal and class glossary)
1_ Midterm test on the experimental program UT 1/UT 2 (weeks 8-12)
2_ Midterm test on the experimental program UT 3 (weeks 10-12)
3_ Midterm test on the experimental program UT 3 (weeks 10-12)). Short essay on selected and shared topics.
4 - Year-long exercise reviews (week 12)
Texts
theorists
Reid E., Understanding Buildings, Zanichelli ed., Bologna,1990,
Nava C., Sustainable Buildings. Particolari Costruttivi (MANUALE), DEI ed., Rome, 2012
Edited by: Cupelloni Luciano. The tree of technology. Gangemi publisher, series: Architecture, Urbanism, Environment, Rome 2023, ISBN: 9788849246995
- for experimentation
Grosso M., Peretti G., Piardi S., Scudo G., Progettazione ecocompatibile dell'architettura. SE ed., Naples, 2005
Nava C., Sustainable Sections. Design and Information for Hypertext Design, Aracne ed., Rome, 2019
Conato F. Frighi V. Methods of Environmental Design; Franco ANGELI Editore, Milan 2016
Other teaching materials
+ Reports and documents on the topics of the course
+ Other sector bibliography to support lessons, seminars and exercises.
+ Recommended sector journals and open source digital programs for use as tools (numbers of journals selected for the case studies)
Contents
The discipline is to be considered as characterizing and preparatory to the course of Technological Culture of Environmental Design (CTPA), with respect to the training course on the topics of 'innovation and environmental design of resources and performance of all man-made systems that come into contact with natural resources. The Teaching of the third year of the degree in Architecture, bases the matrices within the disciplinary field of Architectural Technology and Environmental Design.
In the course of education, stipulated by teaching regulations and manifesto of studies, the discipline contributes to provide methods and tools for “technical control and to the construction of the architectural project” (cf. art.5/first cycle of the Didactic Regulations) and to provide tools to experience “Methods of investigation and preparation for the construction project, (...) an adequate knowledge of physical and environmental problems of climate change-sensitive technologies” (cf. art.2 of the Didactic Regulations)
Therefore, the disciplinary contributions of CTPA are also to be considered preparatory and characterizing for the executive design laboratory and project constructability referred to thesis paths.
With reference to the new declaratory of ssd icar/12, methodologies proper to the discipline are assumed to be those founded on : "are based on: design experimentation and feasibility, measurability, replicability of outcomes; approaches
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More information
the course takes place in the first semester and can anticipate some preparatory themes for the discipline Technological Culture of Environmental Design,
The Course aims at the Awareness of
the Environmental Responsibility of the Designer.
During the course, meetings will be organized with qualified witnesses from the construction world.