ID:
AI757
Duration (hours):
100
CFU:
10
SSD:
URBANISTICA
Located in:
PESCARA
Url:
ARCHITECTURE/CORSO GENERICO Year: 4
Year:
2025
Course Catalogue:
Overview
Date/time interval
Primo Semestre (29/09/2025 - 19/12/2025)
Syllabus
Course Objectives
The purpose of the course is to transmit the acquisitions of urban design in relation to the iusses of the coastal city regeneration in the context of environmental vulnerability and landscape value.
The formative objectives are:
- develop the awareness of the context interpretation as base for urban and architectural design process;
- acquire the ability to relate the project to the dynamics of ongoing transformation of the city and the territory taken as case studies;
- be able to outline the main themes and objectives of the desired transformations, associating with a sustainable and shared vision;
- develop the themes of the environmental quality of public spaces by assuming sustainability networks as new values of the soil project at the territorial and urban scale;
- learn how to build the feasibility of urban planning by verifying regulatory, institutional, economic and territorial consistency and relating the project program to the main programming and planning tools in force
The formative objectives are:
- develop the awareness of the context interpretation as base for urban and architectural design process;
- acquire the ability to relate the project to the dynamics of ongoing transformation of the city and the territory taken as case studies;
- be able to outline the main themes and objectives of the desired transformations, associating with a sustainable and shared vision;
- develop the themes of the environmental quality of public spaces by assuming sustainability networks as new values of the soil project at the territorial and urban scale;
- learn how to build the feasibility of urban planning by verifying regulatory, institutional, economic and territorial consistency and relating the project program to the main programming and planning tools in force
Course Prerequisites
You cannot take the exam in Progettazione Urbanistica 3 if you have not taken the exam in Urbanistica 2.
Teaching Methods
The course consists of didactic contributions of a theoretical nature (with reference to the key-topics of the multiscalar urban regeneration of coastal cities) and technical-methodological contributions concerning the methods of reading, interpretation and planning of the coastal territory at the
various scales. The course takes the form of a design exercise constantly guided by the teacher and tutors. Examples of good practices will be provided, as well as graphic references.
various scales. The course takes the form of a design exercise constantly guided by the teacher and tutors. Examples of good practices will be provided, as well as graphic references.
Assessment Methods
The students will draw up the works by organizing in groups of projects of max 3 units.
The interpretive and planning activities will be collected in n. 3 tables and a model
The graphic works will return the contents of a circular and interactive design process in which the phases of: interpretation of the context, concept of the project (concept), proposed structure (master plan), definition of the quality criteria of the urban public space (project of soil).
Students are required to deliver the required documents according to the scheduled dates. The compulsory progressive checks constitute a guarantee to continue the activity within the course and for the acquisition of the attendance certificate which entitles the student to take the exam within the time frame established by the course program.
The profit exam is intended as the last teaching delivery offered by the course to the student. The exams will be carried out as scheduled.
All students who have regularly attended the course will have the right to take the exam on the scheduled date.
The exam will consist in the verification of the graphic works and the discussion of some text chosen among those listed in the bibliography provided during the course.
The interpretive and planning activities will be collected in n. 3 tables and a model
The graphic works will return the contents of a circular and interactive design process in which the phases of: interpretation of the context, concept of the project (concept), proposed structure (master plan), definition of the quality criteria of the urban public space (project of soil).
Students are required to deliver the required documents according to the scheduled dates. The compulsory progressive checks constitute a guarantee to continue the activity within the course and for the acquisition of the attendance certificate which entitles the student to take the exam within the time frame established by the course program.
The profit exam is intended as the last teaching delivery offered by the course to the student. The exams will be carried out as scheduled.
All students who have regularly attended the course will have the right to take the exam on the scheduled date.
The exam will consist in the verification of the graphic works and the discussion of some text chosen among those listed in the bibliography provided during the course.
Texts
During course books and researches will be made available for learning the themes of the course.
Contents
LAND AND SEA IN TRANSITION
Projects for Adriatic Costal City
Theme
The land-sea transition space is a vulnerable and critical setting. It stands as a place for observation that allows to investigate the on-going transformations of coastal cities and the territorial fragilities resulting from the current environmental crisis.
The land-sea transition space is a movable boundary, a porous territory, a geographical and cultural interface. Seen through an empirical gaze, it can reveal a complex map of values – related to its morphology, landscape, society, economy and culture – that are often disregarded in the ordinary management of coastal areas.
The land-sea transition space is also a design device for envisioning habitats that may support a renewed coexistence between humans and environments, economies and lands, nature and culture.
A proper reading of the land-sea transition space requires the definition of interpreting categories and narrative strategies that effectively convey the multiple values of a fragile space awaiting a project that integrates ecological resilience and regeneration.
The land-sea transition space may be looked at with reference to the maritime infrastructures for coastal and harbour defence. These provide with the tools to design land-sea interactions within a framework that rectifies the sectoral and self-referred approaches that usually inform planning and design.
Piers, breakwater reefs, dikes, cliff defences are all examples of pure engineering. They are built with the sole purpose of defending some stretch of coast, an estuary, a harbour basin. Accordingly, they belong to a popular collective imagery associated with exploitative policies that treat the coast as an economic resource.
Maritime infrastructures are “dead works”, a phrase used in naval engineering to designate the part of the ship that is above the water and therefore has no role in keeping the hull afloat. Similarly, coastal defence infrastructures display a submerged part, which is involved in absorbing the kinetic energy of waves; as well as an emerged part, which is perpetually inert. Coastal defence infrastructures are “dead works”, because they are specialised and self-contained, too. The specificity of their design affects their shape and function, and reduces their potential for multiple uses and for adapting to the needs of towns and contexts.
Nonetheless, their proximity to coastal landscapes and urban areas inspires scenarios of land and sea integration. These may operate in order to enhance the resilience of coastal systems, which are increasingly compromised by the present climate crisis.
Such is the broad perspective informing themes for discussion and experimental projects in the Course of Urban Design 3 taught by prof. Matteo di Venosa.
The Abruzzo coast in the Middle-Adriatic Sea will serve as a case-study
Projects for Adriatic Costal City
Theme
The land-sea transition space is a vulnerable and critical setting. It stands as a place for observation that allows to investigate the on-going transformations of coastal cities and the territorial fragilities resulting from the current environmental crisis.
The land-sea transition space is a movable boundary, a porous territory, a geographical and cultural interface. Seen through an empirical gaze, it can reveal a complex map of values – related to its morphology, landscape, society, economy and culture – that are often disregarded in the ordinary management of coastal areas.
The land-sea transition space is also a design device for envisioning habitats that may support a renewed coexistence between humans and environments, economies and lands, nature and culture.
A proper reading of the land-sea transition space requires the definition of interpreting categories and narrative strategies that effectively convey the multiple values of a fragile space awaiting a project that integrates ecological resilience and regeneration.
The land-sea transition space may be looked at with reference to the maritime infrastructures for coastal and harbour defence. These provide with the tools to design land-sea interactions within a framework that rectifies the sectoral and self-referred approaches that usually inform planning and design.
Piers, breakwater reefs, dikes, cliff defences are all examples of pure engineering. They are built with the sole purpose of defending some stretch of coast, an estuary, a harbour basin. Accordingly, they belong to a popular collective imagery associated with exploitative policies that treat the coast as an economic resource.
Maritime infrastructures are “dead works”, a phrase used in naval engineering to designate the part of the ship that is above the water and therefore has no role in keeping the hull afloat. Similarly, coastal defence infrastructures display a submerged part, which is involved in absorbing the kinetic energy of waves; as well as an emerged part, which is perpetually inert. Coastal defence infrastructures are “dead works”, because they are specialised and self-contained, too. The specificity of their design affects their shape and function, and reduces their potential for multiple uses and for adapting to the needs of towns and contexts.
Nonetheless, their proximity to coastal landscapes and urban areas inspires scenarios of land and sea integration. These may operate in order to enhance the resilience of coastal systems, which are increasingly compromised by the present climate crisis.
Such is the broad perspective informing themes for discussion and experimental projects in the Course of Urban Design 3 taught by prof. Matteo di Venosa.
The Abruzzo coast in the Middle-Adriatic Sea will serve as a case-study
Course Language
Italian
More information
The course takes place in the first semester
Final exam consisting in the exposition and discussion of the works produced in the laboratory, as well as in the exposition and argumentation of the disciplinary contents taken from the lessons and
the bibliography suggested during the course
Final exam consisting in the exposition and discussion of the works produced in the laboratory, as well as in the exposition and argumentation of the disciplinary contents taken from the lessons and
the bibliography suggested during the course
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