Architecture

The annual theme of the Studio is an urban design experience within the framework of the -Piano Strategico e Operativo (PSO) Tevere-, recently approved by the City of Rome. As stated on the City of Rome website: “It is a programmatic and technical document that defines concrete actions, priorities, timelines, and resources, articulating a fully-fledged urban and environmental strategy along the river corridor to make the Tiber the protagonist of the city’s sustainable transformation, a catalyst for new ecological, social, and cultural connections, and a lever for the capillary regeneration of the territories it traverses. A comprehensive vision of the fluvial territory that actively involves institutions, citizens, and private actors in a dynamic and open process oriented toward landscape quality, environmental resilience, and urban equity. The PSO for the Tiber sets out three major strategic objectives: 1. a river of green and blue spaces for an ecological transition of landscape and social value; 2. a network of sustainable mobility ensuring widespread, universal accessibility at urban and neighbourhood scales; 3. an archipelago of urban and local centralities within a framework of renewed social cohesion in places of dwelling. For each objective, the PSO defines a set of Strategic Lines articulated into Project Actions—around 800 in total—organised over short-, medium-, and long-term horizons and to be implemented through European, national, and regional funding. In addition, ten ‘Integrated Project Areas’ are identified as prominent places where a significant concentration of priority interventions is recorded. For these areas, the PSO encourages the preparation of framework schemes capable of constituting the structural reference frameworks for selecting spatial and temporal scenarios, also aimed at financing and operationalisation in the short, medium, and long term.” (http://www.urbanistica.comune.roma.it/strumenti-urbanistici/rigenerazione-urbana/pso-tevere). Students, working in groups (maximum of three people), will be required to develop a proposal that responds to the design brief identified by the City of Rome’s programmatic and technical document, as well as to the emerging issues arising from their critical, interpretive reading of the state of the sites and of current municipal and supra-municipal planning. Each group’s proposal will focus on one of the relevant sites for urban and environmental regeneration identified by the programmatic document and selected by the teaching staff. The project will be developed through a methodological pathway grounded in a multi-systemic approach to the knowledge and interpretation of the study areas. The principal work steps will be as follows: a) a critical reading of current planning at municipal and supra-municipal scales; b) a critical reading and interpretation of the relevant urban context and of its most recent physical and social transformations; c) preparation of a critical synthesis highlighting the main emerging issues (challenges and potentials); d) elaboration of a design proposal articulated as: 1. a strategic framework scheme identifying the themes and places of transformation and of urban/territorial recovery as the dominant categories of the project of urban, territorial, and landscape regeneration; 2. the identification of objectives, actions, and proposed interventions—whether in agreement with or in divergence from current planning provisions—taking into account the transformation potential of the areas and their degree of transformability; 3. design development (masterplan) with corresponding spatial prefigurations of the proposed interventions, and verification of economic and environmental feasibility. These steps correspond, in essence, to the contents of the six boards required to sit the examination; further details on the contents of each deliverable will be provided during the course. The choice of study and project area, always within the “PSO Tevere,” will be made by the student in relation to their interests and to the themes they wish to explore, while remaining within the cultural, disciplinary, and operational contents of the course. In this regard, it is considered essential to place the student fully at the centre of their final urban design experience prior to the synthesis (capstone) studio, offering the opportunity to build—together with the teaching staff—a pathway of knowledge and design aimed at developing and deepening interests, intellectual curiosity, and design sensitivity that have undoubtedly matured through the overall training experience of previous years.

Basic training in the fundamentals of urban planning and in analytical and design methodological processes; use of computer-aided design tools.

Paolo Berdini, Italo Insolera, Roma moderna. Due secoli di storia urbanistica, Einaudi, 2024 Urbanistica 116/2001 (numero monografico sul piano di Roma), INU Edizioni

Mandatory with signature taking, minimum attendance 70%

Work will be assessed through interim submissions, to be communicated at the beginning of the course, corresponding to the various steps of the design pathway undertaken. The final assessment will take the form of an oral examination structured as follows: a) preparation/discussion of six A1 boards that will graphically present the salient aspects of the design experience; b) discussion of a text of the student’s choice among those recommended during the course. The discussion of the text will be individual and not conducted in groups.

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The programme topics will be developed through lectures and seminars, with open discussion of the projects presented by students. Weekly meetings and seminars with external experts and with faculty from other universities are planned, with particular reference to the project theme, to emerging issues in the planning discipline, and to urban and territorial regeneration projects with landscape relevance. As regards laboratory activities, classroom exercises will be complemented by visits to the project areas and, where possible, by engagement with local actors, residents, and any stakeholders useful for reconstructing the design demand of the study area. Active learning methods are also envisaged, with the full involvement of students in topics such as the state of current planning and reference design experiences in Italy and abroad.

Objectives The Course provides basic knowledge relating to the theories, techniques, design tools and regulatory apparatus of the urban planning discipline necessary for the construction of a project for the governance of the contemporary city, the territory and the environment. In this perspective, the course addresses and deepens the theme of the complexity of the city and contemporary territories through a reading of the physical and functional transformation processes that occur in the anthropic space in order to introduce students to the design of large-scale space, and them to deal with the composition of urban "materials". In recent decades, the settlement, morphological and functional models, the tendency towards metropolisation of the territory, the problems relating to ecological-environmental assets, the dynamics of economic and social transformation, present a complexity and fragmentation such as to require an innovative, inter-scalar and integrated able to grasp together with local specificities, overall visions, and to restore effectiveness and efficiency to planning choices. Starting from these premises, the general objective of the course is to provide the theoretical-methodological and operational tools for the construction of the "Urban Project", intended as a procedure aimed at defining new morphological structures and bringing coherence to relevant interventions urban, with reference to contexts potentially subject to significant transformations, both through a verification of the environmental, morphological, infrastructural, economic-financial and regulatory feasibility, and through the identification of the contribution of the subjects and operators involved. Structure and content The course includes both theoretical-definitional lessons which aim to introduce the topic in the current theoretical-disciplinary debate, highlighting the main elements of reflection and innovative features, and a part of design exercise aimed at applying knowledge theoretical knowledge acquired within a specific area of study. The themes dealt with in the theoretical-definitory lectures will emphasize the fundamental aspects of urban planning with particular reference to issues relating to the disciplinary evolution, the legal-regulatory framework, social, environmental and landscape issues, the new disciplinary contents (sustainability ecological-environmental, resilience, energy transition, requalification / regeneration, etc.), the new equitable operational references (equalization, compensation, etc.), the strategies and actions necessary for the construction of the public city. During the course, in addition to the most significant planning experiences developed in other countries, some local planning experiences gained in the last 25 years in our country strongly characterized in terms of disciplinary progress, the significance of the method and the design structure will be analyzed, through the projection of images and filmed documents in the classroom. The theme of the redevelopment of the periphery will be addressed through the experimentation of a planning method that introduces, in an iterative and inter-scaling logic, a path marked by successive levels and phases of study. The study area coincides with the 10th Municipality of the Municipality of Rome. The methodological structure underlying the exercise configures a three-level process, which correspond to different reading scales and intervention tools. 1. Master development plan 2. Local plan 3. Urban project The methodological process assumes, for each level, a theoretical subdivision into four main phases, which are also highly interactive: cognitive deepening; interpretation-evaluation; the clarification of the objectives; the identification and coherence of strategies and actions for the pursuit of objectives. Each phase also uses an approach based on systems, environmental system, settlement-morphological system, system of services and infrastructures, planning system, in turn divided into components. The course will specifically develop the third level of the methodological structure.

Motivation, curiosity and interest in a pragmatic and critical approach to the urban project. Possession of computer skills related to the graphic representation of the project. Aptitude to study in a group.

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The modality of the course will be of the traditional type / and at a distance with lessons and reviews for groups of students. All the lessons, both theoretical and operational ones, will be available, together with further teaching materials on the e-learning portal.

Attendance at the Course is compulsory for 70% of the classroom hours set by the calendar.

Final examination will be oral and will focus on the themes you have dealt with during the lessons with a theoretical and defining character and on the case of study you have taken into exam. The mark will be based on evaluation principles which refer to: verification of knowledge and theoretical acquired principles, attendance, quality and pertinence of proposed project contents, graphic quality. At the end of the exams, a copy of the projects considered most interesting may be requested.

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The course will be delivered traditionally (and remotely if necessary) with lectures and reviews for student groups. All lectures, both theoretical and practical, will be available, along with additional teaching materials, on the e-learning portal. Some innovative teaching methods (metacognitive methodologies and collaborative platforms) will be introduced during the course to enhance active learning of the course content and generate more engaging and lasting learning outcomes.