AI224 - ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN 1 (GRPB)

courses

ID:

AI224

Duration (hours):

140

CFU:

SSD:

COMPOSIZIONE ARCHITETTONICA E URBANA

Located in:

PESCARA

Url:

Course Details:

ARCHITECTURE/CORSO GENERICO Year: 1

Year:

2025

Course Catalogue:

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

Date/time interval

Annuale (29/09/2025 - 22/05/2026)

Course Objectives

For Architectural Composition 1 the objectives are:
- to acquire tools for the analysis and design of simple architectural elements applied to the scale of the single dwelling (internal/external relationships, applications of new technologies and materials, experiments with innovative housing models). The course is coordinated (residential theme) with the courses of: Descriptive Geometry, History of Architecture 1, Materials and Design of Building Elements.

EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES

KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
1.Knowledge deriving from the study of the theoretical-practical tools of architectural design
2. Knowledge derived from the design applied to different scales and types of intervention
3. Ability to understand the relationships between architectural project and its physical and social context
4. Ability to manage the control of the entire architectural design process, from concept to executive project

Course Prerequisites

All students are required to have basic knowledge of Autocad (or similar), Sketchup (or similar) applications. ), Photoshop (or similar) Microsoft Office (or similar), in particular Word and Powerpoint To develop classroom exercises you need a Personal Computer with mouse and Autocad, Photoshop, Microsoft Office and tracing paper, colored pencils, squares and pens installed. Other open source applications necessary for the exercises will be provided during the course. We recommend a Personal Computer with an I7 processor or equivalent, a dedicated graphics card and at least 8 GB of RAM.

Teaching Methods

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.

Design exercise

The program of the Architectural Composition 1 course for the Year 2024/2025 will address the theme of "Design of a row-house in the historical centre of Pescara".
The course will be divided into two parts, in the first part the students will analyse the formation process of urban fabrics as an example of a guided design path.
In the second part, a project will be developed for the construction of a private building with a residential use. The articulation of the teaching activities will also be divided into two parts, in the first the theoretical aspects relating to the theme of the year will be presented, with specific lessons on the training process of building fabrics and basic buildings with particular reference to the architecture of residences. In the second part, however, the in-depth analysis of the case studies will be explored through the design laboratory, with the help of design references and good practices presented by the teacher and experts who have worked in these areas of study.

Assessment 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.
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 3 pages of text, plus images, A4 word format
2) Choice of the reference model, A1 horizontal, with images and text of the project chosen as the model
3) Formation process of the row-house, A3
4) Formation process of the block and the palace, A3
5) Urban analyses, and master plan appropriate scales, A1 horizontal
6) PLAN VOLUMETRIC WITH SHADOWS 1:500, A1 HORIZONTAL
7) project plan 1:200 with sections and elevations, A1 HORIZONTAL
8) plans, sections, and elevations of the museum scale 1:100, A1 HORIZONTAL
9) section-plan-elevation scale 1:20 or 1:50 with indication of structures, materials and construction technologies, A1 HORIZONTAL
10) scale model (digital or physical)
11) 3D views, perspectives, axonometric, renderings

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

Giuseppe Strappa (ed.) (2012) Studi sulla periferia est di Roma. vol. 1, Milano: Franco Angeli.
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.
Tzortzi, Kali (2017) Museum Space: Where Architecture Meets Museology. Taylor & Francis: London.
Henderson, Justin (2001) Museum architecture. Gloucester, Mass.: Rockport.
von Naredi Rainer, Paul (2004) Museum buildings: a design manual. Basel, Boston: Birkhäuser Publishers for Architecture.
Paolo Carlotti, Alessandro Camiz, Carmen Díez (eds.), Urban Morphology and Design, Joint research perspectives and methodological comparation: Italy, Spain, (Proceedings of the international seminar "Joint research perspectives and methodological comparation: Italy, Spain, ISUF Italy – ISUF-h, CISPUT Meeting of Artimino, 1-2 december 2016, Artimino, Italy), U+D edition, Rome.

Papers

Pasquale Tunzi (2020) Dai documenti d'archivio la ricostruzione virtuale della Piazzaforte di Pescara, in J. Navarro Palazón and Luis José García-Pulido (eds.), Defensive Architecture of the Mediterranean Vol. X,PROCEEDINGS of the International Conference on Fortifications of the Mediterranean Coast. FORTMED 2020 (26-28 March 2020, Granada), Editorial Universitat Politècnica de Valencia, Valencia, pp. 479-486.
Pasquale Tunzi (ed.) (2015) Pescara e il suo doppio: la rappresentazione della città perduta: incontro di studi Pescara 9 giugno 2012, Carsa: Pescara.
Massimo Palladini (ed.) (2021) PESCARA. Riscoprire la città scomparsa, Riccardo Condò Editore: Pescara.

Online journals

Urban Morphology journal online
https://journal.urbanform.org/index.php/jum
Forma Civitatis. International journal of urban and territorial morphological studies
http://www.formacivitatis.com/
Urban Morphology and Design
http://www.urbanform.it
Dezeen
https://www.dezeen.com/
Architectural Review
https://www.architectural-review.com

“THE ARCHITECTURAL PROJECT BETWEEN TYPE AND MODEL”

The course is dedicated to the architectural design of a mono-familiar row-house. This building is though not conceived as an arbitrary object, like often happens in most contemporary production, but conceived within the formation process of urban tissues. The single building designed by each student is therefore part of a larger scale organism and contributes with its physical consistency to the definition of a part of the city. The teaching of the design skills therefore adheres with the principles of the construction of an environment suitable not only for private functions, but also for social activities. The design is guided through progressive class exercises that lead the student to the definition of the project based on the choice of a model. The use of models in architectural composition, not to be confused with the copy, belongs to an ancient school of thought, dating back to Aristotle’s, and feeding the history of architecture through centuries, all the way to the best tradition of modern architecture. Reference to the use of models in architectural composition may be found recently in the design activity of “gruppo architettura” in the ‘60 in Italy and in the theoretical work of Raffaele Panella. The school of thought that stems from that root will be taught directly through the design activity, rather than with theoretical teaching. The course will also provide theoretical elements for its bases, but it is essentially based on the direct relationship between student-teacher in the design activity, as in a professional studio. The urban morphology and typological theories, following the teachings of Saverio Muratori and Gianfranco Caniggia will be explained in their basic principles and applications to the design process. In this course, which is research based, the final design is a direct consequence of the teaching activity and not an arbitrary ex-tempore design exercise.

Course Language

ITALIAN

More information

Additional digital tools of the course
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:

Carlo Quintelli (Università di Parma)
Dina Nencini (“Sapienza” Università di Roma)
Franco Purini (Professore Emerito dell'Università Sapienza di Roma)
Enzo Siviero (Università E Campus)
Jean-Francois Lejeune (University of Miami)
Alessandra Capuano (“Sapienza” Università di Roma)
Renato Capozzi (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)
Federica Visconti (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)
Marcello Sestito (Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
Matteo Ieva (Politecnico di Bari)
Orazio Carpenzano (“Sapienza” Università di Roma)
Giuseppe Strappa (Università di Roma Tre)
Maurizio Oddo (Unikore)