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LABORATORIO DI PROGETTO 1 M - Z

Teaching Staff

BRUNO SALVATORE MESSINA - Module COMPOSIZIONE ARCHITETTONICA - ICAR/14 - 12 CFU
EDOARDO DOTTO - Module FONDAMENTI DI RAPPRESENTAZIONE - ICAR/17 - 6 CFU

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Learning Objectives

• COMPOSIZIONE ARCHITETTONICA
  

  Knowledge of the architectural discipline foundations - an initial and indispensable moment in the student's cultural and design training: the first sentence from critical redesign, drawing graphic designs and realization of a plastic, of a contemporary architect works; The second was done to improve the importance of the shape-structure-type relationship in the process of designing the architecture project.

• FONDAMENTI DI RAPPRESENTAZIONE
  

  The Representation module in Project Laboratory 1 aims to make the student aware of the potentials underlying the graphic medium for analysis, prefiguration and communication of architecture, enabling him to explore extensively the techniques and modes of the architectural drawing. Continuous and constant exercise is the only way to reach this goal and for this reason a total immersion condition is expected in the graphic practice. Work will be carried out in strict accordance with the Design module of the same laboratory.
  
  

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Detailed Course Content

• COMPOSIZIONE ARCHITETTONICA
  

  The course will be introduced by the presentation systems norms and on technical, constructive and graphic standards of the residence project. The first exercise that students will face will be the analysis of single-family cases of some masters of contemporary architecture. The subsequent exercises will continue to study the single-family residence, which is related to the theme of the relationship between morphology, typology and construction. Students will be assigned as part of a typological and structural construction project. There will then be addressed: the Gothic Lot House and the Patio House developed in the stereotomic and tectonic construction variant. The critical reading of the works studied and the elaboration of the studies of architecture and other monographs on the masters of the Modern Movement: A. Loos, F., L. Wright, Le Corbusier, L. Mies van der Rohe, A. Aalto and L. Kahn.
  
  

• FONDAMENTI DI RAPPRESENTAZIONE
  

  The training objectives of the Fundamentals of Representation form are:

  - make the student able to use the drawing tools correctly;

  - make the student able to handle the main geometric constructions and draw complex geometric patterns;

  - make the student able to represent architecture in plan, prospectus, sections;

  - make the student able to design objects and complex architecture in perspective;

  - make the student able to draw in the three normalized assonometries;

  - make the student able to recognize and draw the main harmonic and remarkable relationships;

  - analyze the architecture with the use of the drawing.

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Textbook Information

• COMPOSIZIONE ARCHITETTONICA
  

  C. Martì Arìs, Le variazioni dell’identità, il tipo in architettura, Città Studi, Milano 1990; pp.47-96, 133-176.

  B. Messina, Spazi domestici del XX secolo, Lettera Ventidue, Siracusa, 2008

  A. Monestiroli, The metope and the triglyph, SUN, Amsterdam 2005

  U.Cao, Elementi di progettazione architettonica, Ed.Università Laterza Architettura, Roma-Bari, 1995.

  M.P.Vitruvio, De Architectura Libri X, a cura di Franca Bossalino, Ed. Kappa, Roma, 1998.

  Livio Vacchini, Capolavori – 12 Architetture fondamentali di tutti i tempi -, Ed. Allemandi & C., Torino, 2007

  M.Bonaiti (a cura di), Architettura è. Louis I. Kahn, gli scritti, Ed. Electa, Milano, 2002.

  V. Pizzigoni (a cura di), L.Mies Van der Rohe - Gli scritti e le parole -, Ed.Einaudi, Torino, 2010.

• FONDAMENTI DI RAPPRESENTAZIONE
  

  1) R. De Rubertis, Il disegno dell’architettura, Roma 2002.

  2) M. Docci, Manuale di disegno architettonico, Roma - Bari 1985.

  3) E. Dotto, Il disegno degli ovali armonici, Catania 2002.

  4) E. Dotto, Costruzioni geometriche. 60 esercizi di tracciamento con la riga ed il compasso, Siracusa 2007.

  5) E. Dotto, Introduzione all’analisi grafica. Una nota didattica, Siracusa 2008.

  6) E. Dotto, La sinagoga di Hurva di L. I. Kahn. Analisi grafica, Roma 2012.

  7) E. Panofsky, La prospettiva come forma simbolica, Milano 1988.

  8) L. Quaroni, Progettare un edificio. Otto lezioni di architettura, Milano 1977, in particolare la lezione sesta, La geometria dell’architettura, pp. 146-194.

  9) I. Stewart, Che forma ha un fiocco di neve?, Torino 2003 (What Shape is a Snowflake, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 2001)

  10) V. Ugo, Fondamenti della rappresentazione architettonica, Bologna 1994.

  11) N. Meuser, Construction and Design Manual. Drawing for Architects, DOM Publishers, Berlin 2015.

  12) R. Florio, Sul Disegno- About Drawing, Officina, Roma 2012.

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