D08 - STRUCTURAL MORPHOLOGY IN DESIGN

courses

ID:

D08

Duration (hours):

80

CFU:

SSD:

TECNOLOGIA DELL'ARCHITETTURA

Located in:

PESCARA

Url:

Course Details:

DESIGN/CORSO GENERICO Year: 2

Year:

2025

Course Catalogue:

https://unich.coursecatalogue.cineca.it/af/2025?co...

Date/time interval

Primo Semestre (29/09/2025 - 19/12/2025)

Course Objectives

The training objectives of the course are oriented towards the acquisition of concepts relating to forces, loads and static equilibrium, which are fundamental for the knowledge and understanding of the behavior of systems determined by the link between structures, shapes and materials. The students' creative abilities are supported and stimulated through the acquisition of the necessary skills for the choice of structural types in relation to the shapes to be designed in the various application sectors of the industrial product. The specific objective is the acquisition of the abilities of experimentation and aesthetic and technical-constructive evaluation of light structures, through the construction of functional models (learning by making) of linear reticular systems, geodesic domes, corrugated and ribbed surfaces, shells , funicular systems and membrane tensile structures.

Course Prerequisites

You cannot take the structural morphology exam in design if you have not taken the geometry exam for design.

Teaching Methods

The teaching methodology is divided into modules of lectures, exercises and thematic workshops, and includes: - frontal contributions offered by the teacher (lectures / presentations); - individual and group exercises; - collective reviews and punctual meetings; - on-going deliveries.

Assessment Methods

The Structural Morphology course provides for an ongoing group evaluation expressed with a judgment scale (insufficient, sufficient, good, excellent) which consists in the search for examples of industrial products referable to the structural morphologies object of the theoretical lessons and their systemic breakdown. The final exam takes into account this first activity, the preparation of students on theoretical concepts and the results of the last phase of the design of an elementary space / industrial product through the use of one or more types of sweat morphologies. The design experience is in the group while the evaluation on the exam is individual. The votes are expressed out of thirty.

Texts

Forlani M. C. (1983), Materiali, strutture, forme, Alinea Editrice, Firenze Forlani M. C. (1983), Geometria reticoli, poliedri, Alinea Editrice, Firenze Lepore M.(1989), I materiali, in Rossi P., Spadolini B. “L’immaginazione del concreto” Franco Angeli, Milano Vezzoli C., Manzini E. (2007), Design per la sostenibilità ambientale, Zanichelli Editore, Milano Campioli A., Zanelli A. (2009), Architettura tessile, Il Sole 24 ore, Milano Graziotti A. (2012), Cupole geodetiche, Simmetria edizioni, Roma Richardson P. (2009), XS Extreme: Big Ideas, Small Buildings, Thames & Hudson, London Sandåker B. N., Eggen A.P. (1993), Principi del costruire, BE-MA editrice, Milano. Tagliaventi G. (1996), Morfologia strutturale dell’architettura, Gangemi, Roma Boscolo Bielo M. (2014) Architettura delle strutture. La concezione strutturale delle forme, Legislazione Tecnica

The Structural Morphology for Design course provides basic training on the theoretical-scientific principles that govern structural typologies, through the demand-performance approach and the systemic decomposition of light systems for the industrial product.

Course Language

Italian

More information

Attendance is not compulsory, but strongly recommended. The final exam is the same for attending and non-attending students. The calendar of lessons and student reception hours are published on the Department website.