ANALISI DELLA MORFOLOGIA URBANA E DELLE TIPOLOGIE EDILIZIE

ICAR/14 - 6 CFU - 1° Semester

Teaching Staff

GIOVANNI FIAMINGO


Learning Objectives

The teaching of "Analysis of urban morphology and building typologies" defines and deepens the relationships between the single building and the building fabric, within the city's training processes.

In the development of the course, we will address in particular the concepts related to typological classification and urban morphology, up to the typological-spatial experiments of the Modern and to contemporary typological hybridizations. In particular, the following concepts will be analyzed: the 'domus'; the principles of the Mediterranean house; the terraced type; the Gothic block and the "walled" city; the court type and the 'ideal' city; the typological-spatial experimentations and the city of the Modern; building types and settlement types; urban morphology and the symbolic image of the city.



Detailed Course Content

The aim of the course is to guide the student towards an understanding of the urban facts and their logical-constructive processes that, as in any other discipline, possess the requisites of rationality and transmissibility.

In this sense, the typology has always constituted on the front of the urban project an instrument of distributive-functional truth, to which to refer. The "typological question", therefore, arises as one of the fundamental tools within this discipline, because: on the one hand, it allows us to read the history of the transformations of the urban body in a way directly functional to the design; on the other hand, it provides us with a method for the differentiated classification of urban structures and architectural organisms, without which we would only have an infinite series of individual objects all different from one another.

However, in recent decades, and in a fairly rapid manner, the way we live in the house, the street, the city, the region, the continents, the world has changed; the typology of urban spaces has changed, the traditional piazza no longer exists, while the interstices, the spaces of results, the "between" often not designed, has produced places of dispersion and indeterminacy that scattered the environments of urban living. , placing precise disciplinary problems.

The city project should be understood as an instrument for the construction of a contemporary geography of the urban fabric, as an exercise in re-reading and interpreting the urban landscape. This also because the metric distance between things, in the city and in the world, is no longer a function of the possibilities of anthropomorphic movement.

The course of "Analysis of urban morphology and building typologies" has as a general purpose the knowledge, the culture, the practice and the exercise of the project.



Textbook Information

Carlo Aymonino, Il significato delle città, Saggi tescabili Laterza, Bari 1976

Luigi Gazzola, Architettura e tipologia, Officina Edizioni, Roma 1990

Bonfanti Ezio, “Elementi e costruzione, note sull’architettura di Aldo Rossi”, in Controspazio n. 10, ottobre 1970

Caniggia Gianfranco e Maffei Gian Luigi, Il progetto nell’edilizia di base, Venezia, Marsilio Editori 1984

Vigano Paola, La citta elementare, collana Biblioteca di Architettura Skira n° 7, Milano, Skira Editore, 1999

Francesco Cellini, Manualetto, Roma 1991




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