ANALISI DELLA MORFOLOGIA URBANA E DELLE TIPOLOGIE EDILIZIE

The didactic aim of “Analisi della morfologia urbana e delle tipologie edilizie” is the acknowledgement of the relationships between the building (especially the single or collective house) and the urban texture. Then, the course’s interest is addressed to the relationship between architectural type and urban form: how a single building, founding its form’s logical structure and its organization of interior and exterior relations, could it condition the form’s outcomes of urban organism and its connotated scenarios.

During the course’s lessons, will be particularly addressed the concepts concerning the architectural and urban type definitions, with their classifying regarding the existing relationship between building and city and between building types and urban forms. During the monographic lessons it would focus on the reasons and the logics of the historical outcomes and on the multiple mutations of the relationship between type and form, from ancient city to the Modern and contemporary type-space experiments.

The first part of the course will be characterized by monographic lessons on the theme of the type in architecture and on its relations with the urban forms.

The lessons topics are:

Frequent forms in architecture. Type: definitions and evolutions.

The patio and the evolution of the theme of the living around a void.

The theme of single and collective house.

From the domus to the Mediterranean ancient city, from roman villa to Palladio’s villas; the modern and contemporary suburban villas.

The relationship between house types and urban forms. Historical evolution of blocks forms; the terraces types, the gothic block and the fortified city intra moenia. The hybrid forms of traditional terraced houses in some modern and contemporary housing examples.

The collective dwelling’s theme, from roman insulae to Fourier’s Phalanstery; the Wien’s hofe, the Le Corbusier’s “Immeuble Villa” and the contemporary housings.

The city’s types: the block, the square, the street, the walls and other infrastructures.

The types of modernity: the skyscraper, the station, the terminal. Rem Koolhaas, the urban congestion’s culture, the large dimension of architecture, Delirious New York.

The Modern’s city and the urban dichotomies (historic city vs modern city, dense-compact city vs widespread city, city vs countryside) and the diffusion of urban sprawl and urban dust.

The course will be articulated in two different parts: an introductive part of monographic lessons and a next exercise’s part organized on, dedicated to the practical experimentation of type’s theory basis knows in the former part of the course. The morpho-typological structures recognizing of Siracusa’s “Pentapoli” urban textures, with their development, diffusions and crisis will be the focus of the practical experience of this course’s phase.

The lessons will be oriented on several typical figures of architecture and city, on their definition and on their historical progress. In the second course’s phase, in which it will be accomplished in situ and classroom analysis, students will use the sketching and technical drawing instruments in order to understand how to represent principal recognizable typological notions of Siracusa’s cities, in Ortigia, in Santa Lucia neighborhood and in Grottasanta-Mazzarrona suburbs.

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