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Interior Architecture and Venue Design
REGGIO DI CALABRIA
Overview
Date/time interval
Syllabus
Course Objectives
The course aims to introduce students to the complexity of interior design through a selection of actions and themes that characterize architectural form. The intention is to communicate an understanding of design as a union between theoretical foundations and the concrete expression of living, understood as a correspondence between function, form, and meaning in construction. The coordinated action of Interior Architecture and Architectural and Urban Composition will focus on the ability to relate forms and techniques of invention, function, and figurative capacity.
Specifically, the objective is concrete design experimentation on an example of interiors by masters of modern and contemporary architectural history, from a cognitive and, above all, transformative perspective through the practice of design.
Course Prerequisites
There are no mandatory regulatory prerequisites. However, considering that the course is taught in the third year of the three-year program, basic skills and knowledge are required in the various fields of measurement, interpretation, and representation of space for the purposes of its transformation and projection in a design context. Similarly, sufficient figurative and cultural knowledge in the field of architecture, art, and design history is required as a structured and organic reference for the project. Specific skills related to the theme proposed by the course will be covered in the two modules that characterize the Laboratory.
Teaching Methods
1. TIPOLOGIA DELLE ATTIVITÀ FORMATIVE:
- Lessons: (hours/year in person):50
- Workshops: (hours/year in person): 50
- Practice: ((hours/year in person): 20
Calendario delle attività formative (anche solo indicando la settimana/semestre con riferimento al calendario didattico)
- LAVORO AUTONOMO DELLO STUDENTE
1 credit = 25 hours (10 hours of classroom teaching/15 hours of independent study*)
- In-depth study/study of bibliography (theoretical part) 60
- Preparation for tests (experimentation) 60
- Preparation for final exams 60
Assessment Methods
The assessment of learning will be structured around two aspects:
1_ mid-term assessment on the program of lectures and seminars
2 _ final assessment – Final Review/WORKSHOP
Exam format: Theory/Practical
The exam can be taken individually or in groups and can be taken after verification and certification of classroom attendance of no less than 70% of the hours established by the lesson calendar. The exam consists of the presentation and discussion of the project tables, an interview on the theoretical topics covered in the recommended bibliography, and the evaluation of the intermediate and accumulated work during the classroom exercises and workshops.
Texts
- Luca Molinari, (2024), Stanze, Abitare il desiderio, Nottetempo, (MI)
- O. Amaro (2020), Quale misura per l’invisibile, in “FaMagazine” n. 52/53
- G. Perec, (1989) Specie di spazi, Bollati Boringhieri, (TO)
- Emma Forino, (2019), La cucina. Storia culturale di un luogo domestico, Einaudi, (TO)
- Timothy Brook, (2015) Il cappello di Vermeer, Il seicento e la nascita del mondo globalizzato, Einaudi (TO)
Contents
1_DESCRIZIONE (massimo 1.500 battute)
The course is structured as an integration between two disciplines (Architectural and Urban Composition, Interior Architecture, and Exhibition Design). It is designed as an opportunity to reflect on the meaning of contemporary living through the acquisition of the tools and theoretical foundations of design. The coordinated action of Interior Architecture and Architectural and Urban Composition constitutes a programmatic teaching condition, focused on the ability to relate forms and techniques of invention, function, and figurative capacity.
On the one hand, it pursues an awareness of design as a theoretical and practical complexity, a moment of synthesis between functional, tectonic, and formal relationships; on the other hand, it pursues knowledge and the ability to invent domestic interior space in relation to contemporary anthropological, sociological, and cultural changes.
The course will be divided into three specific parts:
- Theoretical lessons on the forms of design and its development, both historically and in terms of changes and developments in domestic living
- Discussion of the recommended bibliography and/or texts proposed by the student
- Design exercises and experimentation
Mid-year design assessments are planned, together with a final intensive workshop as a summary and preparation for the exams.
2_PROGRAMMA DEL CORSO (massimo 3.000 battute)
The theme, integrated by the two disciplines characterizing the course, will address the design of a domestic interior, conceived with reference to the epochal changes that characterize contemporary living.
The course will take place in both theoretical and practical contexts. The former will involve lessons—alternating between modules—that will focus on themes, problems, and theories through the works of modern and contemporary masters and written texts; the second will take the form of a design project which, starting from the measurement of space at various scales of intervention, will lead to a design proposal capable of transforming and rethinking the space itself, focusing on the individual knowledge and tendencies of the student.
In this sense, the use and ability to apply specific disciplinary tools is required which, starting from an awareness of architectural processes on the theme of domestic living, are capable of responding to evolutionary expressive connotations in tune with current changes and a critical ability capable of dialoguing without flattening with production and technological systems.
The experimentation will involve the study of examples of interiors identified among modern and contemporary masters and chosen by the student, together with a proposal for the redesign and transformation of the given space.
3_RISULTATI ATTESI
Conoscenza e capacità di comprensione / Knowledge and understanding
Through the theoretical and practical study of examples from masters of design and architecture, students will acquire the ability to interpret the typological and functional space proposed by the course, with a dual focus: knowledge of the field of investigation and critical understanding of space.
Capacità di applicare conoscenza e comprensione / Applying knowledge and understanding
The proposal of a course theme and therefore a concrete and subjective design project in the field of interior architecture will be the field of verification and application of the theoretical and practical knowledge assigned in the first phase of the course.
Autonomia di giudizio / Making judgements
Independent judgment is tested and verified through a specific interior design project, considering its functional, spatial, and contextual variables. These variables constitute parameters for evaluating the critical abilities of the student's choices in terms of measuring space, responding to a specific housing requirement, and awareness of the relationship with the location.
Abilità comunicative / Communication skills
The student's communication skills will be assessed at multiple levels: use of forms of invention and representation of the project in both two-dimensional and three-dimensional terms, based on the idea that the drawing writes rather than transcribes the project. These will be assessed alongside the ability to organize and lay out the project in its form of representation for the communication and transmission of figurative, spatial, and structural content.
Capacità d’apprendimento / Learning skills
The final exam will assess the degree of linguistic, compositional, and procedural autonomy that students have acquired during the various stages of the course in the field of interior architecture and architectural composition.