Course program
The course aims to promote critical reflection and design experimentation focused on the landscape dimension of the contemporary habitat.
The course consists of ex cathedra theoretical communications and of an applied design experimentation. The latter one relates to the system of open spaces of the Roman area and aimes at their enhancement and/or redevelopment.
The design experimentation has its focus on the ability to interpret and re-elaborate the criticalities of the context of intervention, by experimenting innovative methods of investigation in order to identify points, layers, characters and conditions of the place which can be potentialities for the project and in order to allow a change of meaning by making small and discreet transformations.
Particular attention will be paid to the vegetation project in relation to the existing one, its characteristics and potentials for interaction with the social dimension.
The course proposes an experimentation strongly oriented towards the evolution of people's behavior in their habitat as a starting point for the development of new functions and new expressive characteristics.
Prerequisites
To take the exam it is mandatory to have already passed the landscape design studio 1
Books
There are no texts adopted
Teaching mode
The course consists of ex cathedra theoretical communications and of an applied design experimentation.
The lectures relate to the following topics:
- reading and understanding the phenomena of contemporary habitat;
- the main features of the contemporary landscape project, identified and analyzed through case studies selected on a global level;
- theoretical-critical insights into the relationship between design, history, conservation and innovation in the urban landscape and between design and the social and environmental dimension.
The knowledge and the ability to orientate among the problems indicated above is part of the design process. This will contribute to the development of an approach capable to address spatial themes and conditions characterized by qualities that escape the traditional categories of architecture and urban planning.
The design experimentation consists of 5 graphic drawings:
1. Atlas: reading and interpretation of the context and of the main landscape-spatial sequences
2. Strategies and tactics: identification of actions and definition of a program
3. Action-plan: development of a synthetic image of the project capable of communicating the design process indicating the expected transformations, activities and areas for future study
4/5. design and thematic insights into one or more significant aspects of the project through drawings at different scales
Frequency
Attendance: compulsory at 70%
Exam mode
The exam consists of:
- presentation and critical discussion of the project documents (for groups, up to a maximum of 3 members, the number of project tables increases by one for each component beyond the first).
Bibliography
General and theoretical reference texts will be indicated during the lessons.
We recommend consulting the following magazines:
Lotus 174 Ideas for regeneration
Lotus 172 Architecture and biophilia
Lotus 170 In response to disasters
Lotus 168 Bordes
Lotus 164 Manufactured Altered Landscape
Lotus 157 City as nature
Lotus 155, Geografy in motion
Lotus 153, Commons
Lotus 152, Capability in Architecture
Lotus 150, landscape Urbanism
Lotus 149, Lotus in the Fields
Lotus 140, Sustainability?
Lotus 139, Landscape infrastructures
Lotus 128, reclaiming terrain
A+t n. 35-36, landscape urbanism strategies
A+t n. 37, landscape urbanism strategies
A+t n. 38, Strategy and tactics in public space
A+t, n. 25 – in Common I
A+t, n. 26 – in Common II
A+t, n. 27 – in Common III
A+t, n. 28 – in Common IV
Lesson mode
The course consists of ex cathedra theoretical communications and of an applied design experimentation.
The lectures relate to the following topics:
- reading and understanding the phenomena of contemporary habitat;
- the main features of the contemporary landscape project, identified and analyzed through case studies selected on a global level;
- theoretical-critical insights into the relationship between design, history, conservation and innovation in the urban landscape and between design and the social and environmental dimension.
The knowledge and the ability to orientate among the problems indicated above is part of the design process. This will contribute to the development of an approach capable to address spatial themes and conditions characterized by qualities that escape the traditional categories of architecture and urban planning.
The design experimentation consists of 5 graphic drawings:
1. Atlas: reading and interpretation of the context and of the main landscape-spatial sequences
2. Strategies and tactics: identification of actions and definition of a program
3. Action-plan: development of a synthetic image of the project capable of communicating the design process indicating the expected transformations, activities and areas for future study
4/5. design and thematic insights into one or more significant aspects of the project through drawings at different scales
