The Atelier ADAPTIVE TO RESISt+MITIGATE will deal with the tool of the project rethinking urban metabolism to be adaptive to today's challenges, environment, climate change, food, healthy, and last but not least economy. The aim will be to propose possible solutions for the reuse/retrofit of existing structures and infrastructures or/and infilling of new constructions being adaptive to today and future changes. The relation between architecture and nature and its balance is the main reference for the definition of design strategies and related technologies. Thus, the Atelier aims to provide notions, criteria, and tools aimed at a sustainable approach to the architectural project, with particular reference to technological, environmental, and economic aspects. The existing/new constructions are designed and analyzed according to a systemic approach that takes into account the different phases of the building life cycle, from the early briefing and design phase to the management of the asset up to the final disposal phase. Building design will include the urban context, considering private/ public spaces permeable and impermeable in a sustainable perspective that implies “adaptivity” in the time to different situations (even unexpected as the COVID-19) and with limited resources: an incremental project, adaptive to changes from the neighborhood scale to the building scale. Three different disciplines will contribute to the Atelier: architecture and urban design, environmental technological design, and real estate appraisal, and project economic evaluation. Thus, the Atelier represents the student's last multidisciplinary project experience before the Master's degree thesis. The architecture project assumes the decisive role in remodeling the existing so as to reinsert buildings, spaces, and urban fabrics into the cities’ ecosystem. Recent researches suggest a path for projects which presupposes the acceptance of the fact that simple structures or disused areas have a life cycle that comes to an end; this acceptance allows the opening up to new founding principles whose design outcomes enable the identification of new forms and spatial features. Starting from these themes, the Atelier will identify a specific area for the design experience, in the urban context. The aim of the atelier is the construction of specific project strategies, flexible, even temporary, proposing design solutions focusing to improve life quality and health in urban metabolism, assuming the economic and financial feasibility for supporting the decision-making and selection among alternative technological scenarios (with centrality towards the “global cost” concept).

The expected learning outcomes concern: - To improve the fundamentals, theories, and techniques of architectural and urban design and related disciplines, with an adaptive approach - To experiment sustainable design being adaptive to changes - To acquire multiple skills useful to face complex inquiries on the built environment - To experiment the theories and tools of economic and financial evaluation, for knowing how to size and define the interventions on the building and urban scale considering the economic contexts and the reference markets, and for knowing how to make the design activity interact with technological innovation and economic and financial feasibility - To adopt a multidisciplinary approach dealing with architecture and urban design, technology, and economic evaluation.

The basics of each teaching course are required and given for acquired, such as the codes, methods, and tools for the project representation (2D and 3D), basic knowledge of architecture, and urban design. Furtherly, the basics of real estate appraisal and economic evaluation of the project are given for acquired. The knowledge of building physics basic concepts is needed as well as of the principles of a sustainable approach in architectural and urban design.

ADAPTIVE TO RESIST+MITIGATE is concerning theoretical concepts of adaptivity and its possible applications to architecture design. Spaces in-between offers extraordinary possibilities to define a new equilibrium between nature as a resource and architecture as a challenge to innovation and sustainability. Case studies will be used to understand the relevance of comparative research in architecture as a tool to select solutions and formal definitions of spatial transformation. The Advanced Environmental technological design module will be focused on the role of architecture to shape the urban environment and on the design tools to control it, at the neighborhood as well as at building scale. Urban and building form, materials used in the urban and building fabric, greenery, and facilities affect the urban microclimate following the rules of the bio-climatic design. In the dwelling environment outdoor spaces and buildings, envelopes, and inner spaces, exchange energy and matter. The building envelope behavior affects the energy flow exchange with the outdoor environment and reacts to the input flows needing to be adaptive. The second part of the course will be focused on the innovative perspectives in the field and its use in the atelier project. The three main topics of the course are: - Basics of matter and energy exchanges in the Urban metabolism, horizontal (food, goods, waste) and vertical (air/water/soil emissions) - Architectural concepts, design tools, and software to control urban microclimate. Tutor: Arch. Matteo Trane - Innovative and adaptive building envelope for refurbishment and new construction, concepts, and design tools. Tutor: Arch. Matteo Giovanardi Particular attention will be paid to the integration between architectural project, technological project, and economic and financial feasibility, through the optimization and research of a balance between user requirements, morphological characteristics, energy efficiency, environmental protection, social needs, economic values and questions expressed by real estate markets. The consequences of architectural choices are considered without ever renouncing the quality of composition and always considering the economic and financial feasibility of the interventions, of which the main items of life cycle cost and management are fundamental components. In fact, the possible increases in the value of the goods determined by the architectural and technological solutions will be considered, which will be systematically compared with the feasibility, in all its forms (also normative) and with the questions emerging from the sub-segments of the market in which we operate. Students will preliminarily perform the analysis of the economic, social, and market context in which they operate and will use appropriate evaluation models, including the Discounted Cash Flow Analysis (DCFA) and the Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA). The economic evaluation will focus on the reflexes that the architectural project, of which the innovative technological solutions are a prerequisite, can have not only in terms of saving the costs related to energy consumption, which constitutes the predominant approach, but also in terms of environmental externalities, and in terms of “durability”.

The Atelier will be structured by three main components: theoretical lectures and case studies analysis LE, extempore ExT, useful to the core of the studio, the design experience DE, conducted in teams approximately of three students. A detailed schedule will be provided with different steps of the work and specific dates to submit outputs of the work that will be discussed and reviewed with public presentations, able to share design experience between the different teams. Each team will complete a project with drawings and written reports that will be the topic of the final exam with the professors of the Atelier and some external discussants (public administration, professionals, external professors….)

- BIG, (2015), Hot to Cold. An Odyssey of Architectural Adaptation, Taschen - Baum, M., & Christiaanse, K. editors (2012), City as Loft, Adaptive Reuse as a Resource for Sustainable Urban Development, gta Verlag, Zurich. - Bunge, E., Hoang, M.(2019), Buildings and Almost Buildings - nARCHITECTS, Actar, Barcelone - Dahl, P.-J.; Pollo, R.; Thiebat F.; Micono, C.; Zanzottera, G. (2019), RE:WATERFRONT. A sustainable architectural approach / Un approccio sostenibile al progetto di architettura, FrancoAngeli. - Dijst M. et al. (2018), Exploring urban metabolism—Towards an interdisciplinary perspective, Resources, Conservation and Recycling, vol. 132, pp. 190-203 - Erell et al (2011), Urban Microclimate – Design the space between buildings, Routledge - Ferguson, F. (2019), Make City. A Compendium of Urban Alternatives Stadt Anders Machen, Jovis - Fregonara E., (2017), Valutation, sustainability, project. Life Cycle Thinking and international orientation, Milano, Franco Angeli. - Ingaramo, R. (2018). Rust Remix. Architecture: Pittsburg Versus Detroit, LetteraVentidue. - Ingaramo, Roberta (2016). Urban and Architectural forms, in: Ingaramo R. and Voghera A., Editors, Topics And Methods For Urban And Landscape Design. From the river to the project. Urban And Landscape Perspectives, vol. 19, p. 35-67, Cham: Springer International Publishing, - Pollo R. (2015), Progettare l’ambiente urbano, Carocci - Shahrokni et al.(2015), “Smart urban metabolism: Towards a Real-Time understanding of the energy and material flows of a city and its citizens”, Journal of Urban Technology, vol. 22 (1). - Smith, P. F. (2006), Architecture in a Climate of Change, Routledge. - Szokolay S.V.(2014), Introduction to Architectural Science: The Basis of Sustainable Design, Routledge. During the initial lesson and during the lessons will be provided the necessary indications about the bibliography for every single course, with reference to fundamental texts and suggested text for further insights. Through the didactic portal will be provided some traces of the lessons and presentations, which will be useful to track the single parts of the bibliography.

Modalità di esame: Prova orale obbligatoria; Elaborato scritto individuale; Elaborato scritto prodotto in gruppo; Elaborato progettuale individuale; Elaborato progettuale in gruppo;

Compulsory oral exam; Individual graphic design project; Group graphic design project; Individual project; Group project. Advanced Environmental technological design. In the final exams and intermediate deliveries work outputs will be presented and discussed. The final work and the intermediate deliveries will contribute to the final evaluation.

Modalità di esame: Prova orale obbligatoria; Elaborato scritto individuale; Elaborato scritto prodotto in gruppo; Elaborato progettuale individuale; Elaborato progettuale in gruppo;

Compulsory oral exam; Individual graphic design project; Group graphic design project; Individual project; Group project. Advanced Environmental technological design. In the final exams and intermediate deliveries work outputs will be presented and discussed. The final work and the intermediate deliveries will contribute to the final evaluation.