ID:
SH009
Duration (hours):
120
CFU:
12
SSD:
COMPOSIZIONE ARCHITETTONICA E URBANA
Located in:
PESCARA
Url:
SUSTAINABLE HABITAT SCIENCES/CORSO GENERICO Year: 2
Year:
2025
Course Catalogue:
Overview
Date/time interval
Secondo Semestre (23/02/2026 - 22/05/2026)
Syllabus
Course Objectives
The course introduces the student to landscape design integrated with the application of sustainable transformation strategies of the environment aimed at a coherent use of materials and technologies in the various design aspects: technical-constructive, distributive functional and formal compositional. In particular, the course will prepare students' ability to apply knowledge and understanding in the following areas.
Apply analytical and interpretative codes to study the evolutionary dynamics of the landscape in relation to the anthropic activities that have occurred over time;
Evaluate integrated landscape design processes associated with a strategy for sustainable transformation of the environment with particular reference to materials, technologies and distribution systems;
EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES
Through the design exercise, the course will guide students towards the application part of the landscape project through the development and management of conservation projects relating to artifacts of historical and artistic interest, monumental complexes, areas of landscape and environmental value. The design exercise intends to verify the Dublin descriptors related to the first teaching cycle (Knowledge and understanding, Ability to apply knowledge and understanding, Autonomy of judgment) achieved and verified in particular in the following training activities:
ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE
CONSERVATION OF THE LANDSCAPE AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
Course Prerequisites
You cannot take the LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE exam if you have not taken the HISTORY OF LANDSCAPE AND COMMON GOODS exam. All students are required to have basic knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, in particular Word and Powerpoint. To develop the classroom exercises you need a Personal Computer with a mouse and Microsoft Office installed and tracing paper, coloured pencils, squares and pens. Other open source applications necessary for the exercises will be provided during the course. To follow remotely we recommend a Personal Computer with an I7 processor or equivalent, dedicated graphics card and at least 8 GB of RAM.
Teaching Methods
During the course, periodic reviews of all assigned exercises will be carried out, the results of which will be presented and discussed at the final exam.
Description of teaching activities
The course is divided into theoretical lectures, science conferences and application exercises. Each lesson will introduce students to a specific aspect which will then be put into practice with the exercise. The science conferences, held by guests, will address theoretical and practical topics of landscape architecture. The sequence of lessons and exercises will lead the student to the definition of a design exercise, to be held individually or in small groups of up to 3 people, on the year's theme.
Assessment Methods
Design exercise
The Design exercise intends to explore the shape of a public pedestrian or green space. The design assignment will be presented at the beginning of classes. Students, individually or in small groups of up to 3 people, will define a design proposal inspired by contemporary garden models. When choosing the plant essences to include in the garden, they can refer to local vegetation types, or take as suggestions the plants listed in the hexametric poem Hortulus, written in Latin by the monk Walafrid Strabo in the 9th century, and which is believed to contain the description of the garden existing at the time in the Reichenau monastery in Germany.
Final exam
The final exam (to be carried out according to the exam calendar of the degree course) will consist of the presentation of the exercise drawings carried out during the course and those referring to the design exercise, combined with a discussion relating to the models and elaboration processes adopted in the landscape project.
Exam submissions
1) Written report on the project, at least 2 pages of text, plus images, Word A4 format
2) Choice of the reference model, ISO A1 horizontal, with images and text of the project chosen as the model
3) ISO A3 tissue of iso-oriented courtyard houses
4) Vertical ISO A1 invention poster
5) horizontal ISO A1, master plan 1:1000 and indication of greenery and pedestrian spaces, plus the garden
6) horizontal ISO A1, project plan 1:500 with garden and surroundings
7) horizontal ISO A1, plan, section, and elevations of the garden 1:200 (detail) and possibly 3D views (digital or physical model)
Texts
Bibliographical references will be provided during the course, at the end of the individual lessons. For guidance purposes, the following texts are considered fundamental:
Books
Gianfranco Caniggia, Gian Luigi Maffei, Composizione architettonica e tipologia edilizia vol.1. Lettura dell'edilizia di base, Marsilio, Venezia 1999.
Giuseppe Strappa, Paolo Carlotti, Alessandro Camiz, Morfologia urbana e tessuti storici - Urban Morphology and Historical Fabrics: Il progetto contemporaneo dei centri minori del Lazio - Contemporary design of small towns in Latium, Gangemi Editore, Roma 2016.
Alessandro Camiz, Tipo, Modello, Tessuto. Dodici lezioni di Architettura, Davide Ghaleb editore, Vetralla 2017.
Sansa Lenzholzer, Weather in the City. How Design Shapes the Urban Climate, NAi010 Publisher, Rotterdam 2015.
Fabrizio Chella, Distorsioni climatiche. Una logica che cambia la forma del volume vuoto, LetteraVentidue, Siracusa 2020.
Michele Manigrasso, La città adattiva. Il grado zero dell’urban design, Quodlibet Studio, Macerata 2022.
Jayoung Koo, Patsy Eubanks Owens, Yiwei Huang, Outdoor Environments for People. Considering Human Factors in Landscape Design, Routledge New York 2023.
Open Access journals
Landscape Architecture Platform
https://landezine.com
Landscape Journal
https://lj.uwpress.org/
Journal of Landscape Architecture
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rjla20
Landscape Architecture Journal
https://so01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/LAJ
International Journal of Landscape Science, Planning and Design
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/landscape-and-urban-planning
Ri-Vista. Research for Landscape Architecture
https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/ri-vista
Forma Civitatis. International journal of urban and territorial morphological studies
http://www.formacivitatis.com/
Urban Morphology and Design
http://www.urbanform.it
Websites
Scuola di Paesaggio «Emilio Sereni» 2024 – XVI edizione
https://www.istitutocervi.it/scuola-di-paesaggio-emilio-sereni-2024
Paysage Topscape
https://paysage.it/
Geoportale della Regione Abruzzo
http://geoportale.regione.abruzzo.it/Cartanet
Huntergreen
http://www.huntergreen.nyc
Giardino Botanico "D. Brescia", Sant'Eufemia a Maiella
https://www.parcomajella.it/Sant-Eufemia-a-Majella-Giardino-D-Brescia.htm
De cultura hortorum sive Hortulus
https://www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/Chronologia/Lspost09/Walahfrid/wal_ho00.html
Centro di Ricerca Interdipartimentale sulla "Earth Critical Zone" per il
supporto alla Gestione del Paesaggio e dell'Agro ambiente
https://www.crisp.unina.it/
Contents
“THE LANDSCAPE AS AN ORGANISM”
The course intends to experimentally verify how much the landscape architecture procedures should be updated following the radical changes that climate change is causing on the built environment. The rise in sea level, the new configuration of the coastlines, the increase in average temperatures, the shift in housing demand towards areas with colder and predominantly mountainous microclimates, the erosion of wooded areas and the modification of habitat and soil regime induced by periods of drought: these are just some examples of the effects of climate change on the environment and clearly highlight how the landscape architecture, understood both as a modification of the natural environment (parks and gardens) and as public space projects at the urban scale, must be radically redefined through new theoretical and operational tools.
Course Language
ITALIAN
More information
Additional digital tools of the course
FAD link for distance learning
MIRO is a shared whiteboard that allows teachers and students to interact by drawing, useful for reviews and exams
During the course the following guest lecturers will be invited to hold science conferences:
Fabio Terribile (Università degli studi di Napoli “Federico II”)
Virna Mastrangelo (Green Atelier)
Rossano Pazzagli (Università degli Studi del Molise)
Giulia Annalinda Neglia (Politecnico di Bari)
Flavio Trinca (Studio AEP, Architettura del Paesaggio)
Agnese Damiani (Università Europea del Design, Pescara)
Agostino Bubbico (Lola Landscape Architects, Rotterdam)
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