1001627 - CULTURA TECNOLOGICA DELLA PROGETTAZIONE AMBIENTALE

1 _ Description

The seminar course of the Technological Culture of Environmental Design (CTPA), is to be considered as characterizing and foundational with respect to the training course on the topics of constructability of Architecture and its quality profiles in terms of technical culture, architectural and technological language, innovation and environmental design of resources and performance. Year III teaching of the Architecture degree, founded on the foundational matrices within the subject area of Architectural Technology and Environmental Design. The discipline is included in the Roll of Active Erasmus Courses.

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 Teaching Regulations) and to provide tools to experience "Methods of investigation and preparation for the construction project, (...) an adequate knowledge of the physical and environmental problems of climate change-sensitive technologies" (cf. art.2 of the Teaching 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; systemic, exigency-performance and process approaches; decision-making strategies consistent with objectives of effectiveness, sustainability, circularity" and the revision of the contents for CTPA, as referring " with theoretical and experimental insights into contemporary architectural design culture with interscalar method and the relationship between environmental performance levels and detail design of components in innovative systems, with transfer to prototyping."

2_Course Program

The cognitive and exploratory patway, conducted through the CTPA, will investigate around three major trajectories and paradigmatic issues of the discipline, contemporary with the debate "on the role of architecture, in its relationship between design and construction, as a process of modifying the built environment and a method of approaching the configuration of complex spaces and systems at all scales of design." 3 questions with reference to the design and implementation of the building as an "integrated system of technologies" and as a "building organism."

The first issue addresses the theme of "complexity of contemporary building," in order to situate the role of the relationship between design and construction, between design and production, between spatial and morphological and technological configurations, instructed by the formed and relational processes between the parts and their conditions of response to the demand for use, service, operation, and recognizability of systems in their final expression.

The second issue, expresses all the characters and terms of the issues of "sustainability as an evolution of environmental design and design of natural resources," rereading the inter-scalar relationship between patterns of operation and response in impacts, between conditions of quality of space referred to the quality and well-being of its use, in the regenerative ability to design systems that increase its performance, with high levels of innovation and physical and life cycle integration, according to the new environmental demands, decarbonisation and climate neutrality.

The third question, referring to the "role of innovation in the cultural processes of technology," with reference to the complex and sustainable project (first two questions) and with reference to the evolution of the technical and informational culture of the project, the way in which experimentation and research has guided the evolution of the production chains of components, materials, systems, together with the evolution of digital processes in all the realization phases of the process and the project and has made available an increasingly continuous relationship, between process, project and product.

Experimentation is proposed on contemporary architectural buildings made in the last 20 years and that use wood technology in all its construction forms and as a material with low environmental impact,, internationally, that can be studied and understood through the reproduction of some drawings at the building scale of technological and environmental system, both as a deepening of traced sources and as new proposals in terms of details and operating models. Specifically with reference to the three theoretical and experiential issues referred to in the course syllabus, it is proposed to investigate:

- with reference to Issue I (UT2): the relationship between spatial configuration and structural configuration (closures/supporting structure)

- with reference to Issue II (UT3): the relationship between building operation and integrated systems (systems, passive and positive models, and energy and biophilic envelope design)

- with reference to Issue III (UT4): the relationship between technological and environmental configuration of the building and materials (envelope and environmental profile of materials, off-site and advanced materials integrated with circular profile)

3_Expected Objectives

Each UT includes a pathway for student acquisition of transferred knowledge, for which bibliographic, case study and tutorial guidance will be provided.

At the conclusion of this exploratory pathway, students are asked to acquire the disciplinary terms and issues investigated between lectures, seminars and discussion on the exercises for experimentation.

In particular.

- Knowledge and comprehension skills will be practiced through classroom verification of lectures, at the end of each UT with brainstorming activities on key issues and with class involvement (construction of the illustrated glossary)

- Applied knowledge and understanding skills, through proposed experimentation on each UT, writing and classroom presentation during the course

- The 'autonomy of judgment, through involvement and interaction during seminar activities, with requests for formulating critical observations and insights in a shared interview

- Communication skills through classroom interaction for the midterm tests on the TUs and the final examination paper

- The ability to learn, stimulated with the different teaching activities and checked on the bibliography of assigned texts and the search for study insights to carry out the practical activities by each student, whose comprehension and understanding will be assessed in a mid-term theoretical-practical exam to be held in the classroom.

In addition, at the conclusion of the thematic units, the final test of the course is planned, with a design experiment on a programme provided by the lecturer to be carried out in the 3-day classroom workshop.