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Aims :

The training objective of the course is to increase the student’s capacity of confronting the realization of form, the satisfaction of the requirements of use and construction and the planning and realization of an architectural organism.

Topics :

The lessons and the exercises in various phases, are aimed at supplying the elements and the instruments that the project is composed of, passing from the general plan to the definition of the choices of the final plan, up to the achieved formality of the executives. By means of the following subjects:
- The base materials of Architecture
- Brick Buildings (Wall framework, attics, roofing, faces, the historical evolution of the different types of brick building).
- Cement Buildings ( structural types and basic characteristics; jet structures, attics, vertical closure, roof closure, integration building – ground, stairs)
- Steel Buildings (Structural Types, horizontal and vertical closure)
- Wood Buildings (fundamental characteristics, traditional structures, lamellare wood)
- Short accounts of Bioclimatic Architecture (general citeria of planning)
- Legal aspects of the process of Town Planning, executive process.


Textbooks :

Mutti Provenziani, Technical constructions for Architecture.ed. Kappa
Mandolesi, Edilizia – vol 1 Ed UTET
Distributed during the course .

Exam :

This extensive course consists of theoretic lessons on the above subjects (60 hours), and a series of exercises on the themes of planning (60 hours. ) An integral part of the course and a condition for entry to the exam is the attendance of a planning workshop on technical architecture I (LAT 1 of 60 hours) which explores the planning process of family residence.

Tutorial Session :

Weekly, by appointment c/o the Institute Office