Architecture - Urban Regeneration

General objectives This course deals with the issue of Sustainable Construction in order to support design processes that aim to make the cities of the future ‘greener’, more ecologically efficient and more energy efficient, particularly as regards the construction and performance implications of improvement work at an urban and individual building level. The type of design approach required is holistic, environmentally aware and capable of making changes at the various different scales involved - from individual buildings to estates, urban districts and the city as a whole - using innovative techno-morphological solutions aimed at improving architectural and environmental quality. The course provides the design principles, methods and tools needed to build sustainably for a ‘Greener City’, prioritising the enhancement of natural, cultural and technological capital and the increase in the resilience and eco-sustainability of regeneration work given factors such as climate change and the scarcity of resources. Specific objectives Knowledge and ability to understand At the end of the course the student must have acquired knowledge and understanding skills, as well as skills that allow to support, from a theoretical-methodological point of view, the setting up of strategies of sustainable design for greener cities. Furthermore, the student must have acquired an adequate and specific knowledge of the procedures and application tools to operate in the field of green regeneration of the architecture and the city, also by means of project verification methods at the various levels of investigation and the technological feasibility of the proposed regenerative solutions, demonstrating the appropriateness of design and construction, at various scales, with respect to complex context characters. The verification of knowledge will be carried out through the design experimentation conducted during the Course, through in itinere tests and the final examination. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding At the end of the Course the student will have to demonstrate the acquisition of specific cultural, theoretical and methodological references to the technology discipline, the full knowledge of the experimental and analytical-methodological approach and the learning of contributions that articulate and characterize the Course. The student will also have to develop and verify, through integrated application processing, the knowledge and understanding skills acquired, aimed to solve complex problems related to the appropriate practice of material processes and technologies that oversee the complex relationship between the project in its theoretical, methodological and instrumental contents, the construction system and the environmental system. the requirements of sustainability, resilience and 'green' behavior of architecture and the city, indispensable for the creation of an environmentally sustainable Smart Environment. These capacities will be verified in the context of experimental and design activities, through simulations of regeneration processes related to architectural and urban realities, aimed at developing the ability of individual and group approach to applicative and professional problems. The verification of the knowledge will be carried out, moreover, through the exam test proper and through tests in itinere. Autonomy of judgment At the end of the course the student must demonstrate the ability to acquire knowledge and experience, to evaluate and rework them for the purpose of forming an independent and original judgment. In particular, the student must demonstrate skills in the autonomous management of the necessary consideration and integration of the different interacting environmental factors in the same formulation of the regenerative project program for a sustainable architecture and a 'green city', the preventive evaluation of the intrinsic, direct and indirect effects related to the transformation, deriving from the processes of construction, in order to achieve, in trend, an ecological state of equilibrium in the planning, implementation and management of the project intervention, with the aim of restoring technologically innovative and environmentally sustainable solutions. The achievement of these critical and autonomous judgment skills will be acquired during the experimental and project activities, through simulations of regeneration processes related to architectural and urban realities. The verification of the knowledge will be carried out, moreover, through the exam test proper and through tests in itinere. Communication skills At the end of the course the student will have to demonstrate, for the acquisition and the operational capacity with respect to the theoretical methodological, technical and design knowledge, typical of teaching, to be able to communicate them, in an effective and innovative way, within of project proposals, using advanced and multimedia communication tools in the field of representation and different forms of language: verbal and written-graph. The achievement of these skills will be acquired during the experimental and design activities of the Design Studio that ensure full possession of the specific expressive and illustrative skills of the project. The verification of the knowledge will be carried out, moreover, through the exam test proper and through tests in itinere. Learning ability At the end of the course the student will have to demonstrate a high capacity for autonomous learning, which allows to continuously update and increase their knowledge and skills in the field of technological design and, more generally, the issues related to urban regeneration strategies. The acquisition of these skills will take place through specific theoretical contributions given by the teacher during the course, aimed at expanding the skills framework to access innovative methodologies, tools and applications and through constant participation in the laboratory's experimental and design activities, dialectical field verification of acquired knowledge, within concrete design experiences. The verification of skills will take place, above all, through the exam test, structured in such a way as to highlight the autonomy in organizing one's own learning.