Following up the first year experience, the City and Territory Studio enriches the student's personal toolbox with additional reasoning on design references, the basic competence in regulatory techniques, and skills in defining spatial layouts at different dimensions and in different scales. The expected learning outcomes concern specifically the ability to work, individually and in teams, developing: - an integrated approach to spatial design and programmes: how urban agglomerations may be critically analyzed and interpreted with reference to broader understanding of the contemporary city and urbanization processes; - multifaceted competences in the morphological analysis of settlements: how to critically understand settlement’s functioning and spatial models, instrumental to elaboration and discussion of design ideas; - skills in handling quantitative tools to understand design opportunities: how to use statistical-quantitative indicators and operate critically with any parameters incorporated in the existing regulations (such as density and conventional urban standards), instrumental to urban design; - skills in recognizing, by means of design, the relationships between topography and the constitutive elements of landscape; - an attitude to synthesize critical reasoning through urban design, intended as a moment of reconfiguration of what exists.

The studio builds upon the skills that students gained in the first year "Instructions" program. In particular, the studio assumes that students have acquired: the basic critical understanding and design knowledge of the first year Architecture Design Studio; the analytical tools to understand and elaborate on the contemporary city developed in the first year Urban Planning course, together with the knowledge of elements of urban planning technique. The studio also requires that students possess the fundamentals of linear algebra, differential and integral calculus acquired during the Calculus course.

The atelier aims to develop urban transformation scenarios starting from acquiring the optimized tools to critically analyze the city, its morphological fabrics and the challenges raised by the local community. The didactic path starts from an assumption that raised a broad consensus in a large part of the international debate, that is the necessity of stopping the land take processes and the parallel need of fostering the requalification of the existing patrimony. The main topic of investigation will be thus urban regeneration, namely those requalification processes of the urban territory that deal mainly with the parts of the city that reached the end of their life cycle; the ambition of these operations is to product effects not just on the physical requalification, but also on the social and economic transformation. The case study selected for the design studio is located in the first commuter belt of Turin's Metropolitan Area, in the municipal district of Collegno; it is a part of the metropolitan territory where the modern and contemporary urban trasformations created during time an emblematic representation of the challenges that the contemporary cities are proposing to the architecture and urban design world.

The first part of the course preceding the mid-term review will consist in the morphological, programmatic and statistical-quantitative analysis of the case study, seen at different scales. The activities include the presentation and the discussion of urban regeneration international case studies, the preparation of preliminary masterplans for the area of intervention. The second part will consist in an individual in-depth study of the architectural scale of the project and in the systematic updating and verification of the design premises at the urban scale, in order to fulfill the requirement of the final examination.

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Lecture slides; Multimedia materials;

Exam: Compulsory oral exam; Individual graphic design project;

1. Students will not be in the condition of positively completing the Design Studio without regular presence during lectures and seminars, complemented with their active participation to tutorials, exercises and teamwork. 2. Students’ progresses will be continuously monitored: exercises (i.e. drawings, maquettes, etc.) will be discussed and corrected individually and/or in public during classes by the studio supervisors; external critics will attend a midterm review and a final presentation of the works. Students’ capacity to explain their ideas and proposals, even in verbal form, matters to the overall evaluation. 3. The final evaluation of the Studio is one mark to which all the three disciplines (Architectural and Urban Design, Urban Planning and Probability and Statistics) contribute proportionally. The evaluation of each student combines: - results of the team-work and individual exercises; - oral discussion (during the final exam) to assess the competence of each student in bridging the issues addressed in the Studio. 4. The evaluation will take into account the following aspects, assessed on the basis of individual outputs, intermediate and final teamwork, weighed in the final evaluation as follows: - critical analysis and interpretation of urban agglomerations with reference to broader understanding of the contemporary city and urbanization processes (30%); - multifaceted competences in the morphological analysis of settlements (20%); - skills in handling quantitative tools to understand design opportunities (20%); - skills in establishing relationships, by means of design, between project proposals and their contexts (10%); - attitude to synthesize critical reasoning through urban design, intended as a moment of reconfiguration of what exists (10%); - clarity and quality of deliverables, with emphasis on correct representation and correct choice of technical terms (10%). The studio has to be completed during the first week of the Winter Exam Session, right after the end of the first term.

In addition to the message sent by the online system, students with disabilities or Specific Learning Disorders (SLD) are invited to directly inform the professor in charge of the course about the special arrangements for the exam that have been agreed with the Special Needs Unit. The professor has to be informed at least one week before the beginning of the examination session in order to provide students with the most suitable arrangements for each specific type of exam.