Architecture - Urban Regeneration

General objectives The course aims at address issues related to the recovery of natural and man-made environments, giving priority to the protection and enhancement of cultural and environmental heritage in urban, peri-urban and rural environments. The cognitive approach will guarantee the knowledge of the site and the recognition of the "values" to be safeguarded. The methodological approach will be divided into phases: observation, interpretation and evaluation of the structure of the city and its current structure. The design approach will be interrelated and directed to the critical management of complex balance (regulation of transformation dynamics) that, between conservation and development, between conservation and development, in urban areas, they involve cultural and environmental heritage. Within the thematic area of urban, environmental and landscape regeneration and of the redevelopment of cultural and architectural heritage, the operational framework will include an organic and correlated complex of urbanistic and architectural value activity, and will involve the enhancement and the recovery and activate a strategy of project aimed at restoring balance to the processes of management and transformation of cities. Specific objectives Knowledge and skills At the end of the course, the student will acquire knowledge and skills about the method necessary to develop a context analysis concerning the considered urban system. After acquiring the theoretical knowledge -to be transformed design guide line- the student will demonstrate the acquired skills in defining the design and implementation "iter" at the basis of the intervention. The verification of the acquired knowledge will be implemented through the project activity carried out during the Course; the student will demonstrate to be able to identify the rules of transformation and interpret them within an integrated cultural framework. Ability to apply skills and knowledge At the end of the course, after having mastered the analytical-planning approach facing the issues of urban regeneration and architecture- the student will have to demonstrate the ability to develop an interrelated recognition, both of environmental factors, and anthropogenic factors and those of socio- ethnography, also by evaluating the mutual interactions in terms of sustainability with respect to the 'value system' determined by the historical stratification process. In this sense, in the search for a close interconnection between protection, development choices and set-up strategies, the student will have to finalize the method to define the "degree of transformability", through an essentially "dynamic" approach. In particular, using the methods, skills and procedures acquired, the student have to demonstrate ability in applying these skills to intervene correctly in the space-environment of the present city. The check of the ability to apply the knowledge will be carried out through in itinere tests and through the exam test . Critical and judgmental skills At the end of the learning process, the student must demonstrate to have attained the skills to apply the knowledge by means of a complete critical summary to be attributed to the propositional interests of the intervention that is to be placed within the relationship systems qualifying the examined reality. In particular, the student must demonstrate to have acquired sufficient familiarity with the formative processes of architecture connoted by a varied planning; regarding this, every solution is the result of the interrelation between moments of analysis and of synthesis, of comparison and of verification, and that in the restorative context, constitute a fundamental activity, rigorously supported and controlled by the continuous exercise of critical thought. The achievement of this autonomy of judgment will have to be realized within the project activities experienced during the course; the verification of the acquired critical skills will be carried out through the exam test . Communication skills. At the end of the course, in the face of the acquired skills with respect to the theoretical, methodological, technical and design knowledge of the disciplinary scope of the restoration, the student will demonstrate to be able to communicate them in an effective and innovative way. In this perspective, considering the question in terms of search of spaces for the dialogue between the different operational specificities, the student have to consider the diversified professional interface that connotes the innovation conservation dialectics. The student must therefore be able to transmit the peculiarities of the "value system" that defines the limits and potential of the intervention, to be specified through an interrelated design approach. The achievement of these skills will be verified by the expressive and illustrative skills of the project outlined and will be carried out through the exam test. Skills and autonomy of study At the end of the course the student will demonstrate the acquired skill to learn and to independently apply his own knowledge. In particular, the student has to demonstrate the ability to update and continuously increase the skills acquired so as to outline an organic and correlated set of actions aimed at conserving and enhancing the qualities of the urban environment and its territorial context. Furthermore, the student will demonstrate the ability to update and continuously increase the skills acquired, so as to outline an organic and correlated set of actions aimed at conserving and enhancing the landscape qualities of the present.The acquisition of these skills will take place through constant participation in the activities of the Studio: a place where the culture of the project takes on a fundamental role, where the value of the formative moment is specified. The verification will take place during the exam test, through which the student's autonomy in organizing their learning can be highlighted.