\ Ability to analyze the surrounding environment and combine it with the architectural forms, taking into account the existing urban context, the site analysis and the users' needs. \ Ability to relate structural and technological systems with architectural forms using both functional layouts and architectural references, and specific construction solutions that fulfil the expected performance. \ Ability to apply the basic technical standards to achieve the specific quality level required for the design solution. \ Ability to verify, during and after the design process, the consistency of architectural, technological and structural design choices expressed by the design brief. \ Ability to identify and understand the most appropriate models to determine the structural response by selecting the geometries and mechanical parameters to be used according to the actions envisaged. \ Ability to understand, evaluate and critically communicate the design results and calculation performed.

The courses of Calculus; (concepts of function, derivative, integral, differential equation, vectors and matrices), "Morphology and conception of structures"(equilibrium of forces, identification of unstable systems or with ill-posed constraints, calculation of external reactions, drawing up diagrams of internal forces for statically determined structures) and "Architectural Technology: culture and fundamentals", with the critical and design skills acquired in the attended Design studios, as well as the rules of architectural design at different scales, are considered already acquired.

lntroduction We’ll take care of a site where a real process is ongoing and where a new project is needed to give a certain push to the process itself. A site visit will be planned as soon as possible to feel the place and meet the people involved into the project. Students start to design immediately, supported by the three disciplines in parallel but always trying to match them at most. Teaching materials will be shared step by step on the official PoliTO website or in a specific digital platform. Architectural and Urban Design Three main topics will be managed to improve your architectural and urban design. SPECIAL: designing spaces, not things. \ We need to think in terms of identity, responsibility and value. \ Real needs are not given, thus you have to build them up. \ Analysis is the first design tool. OPEN: designing spaces, over time. \ We need to define possibilities and leave possibilities. \ The more the project works, the more it will be in a kind of revision. \ Concept is like a “manifesto” to the project. SOCIAL: designing spaces, with people. \ We need to open up and share processes. \ An architectural project is made of relationships, emotions and behaviours. \ Communication is never postponed. Architectural Technology The Architectural Technology module includes preparatory lectures for the development of the project and activities of exercise and test of the drawings. The studio teaching program will be focused on the analysis of functional requirements and an appropriate response to such requirements; the appropriateness of the building envelope design to the local environment and climate; the role of building elements and the consistency of the construction process. Attention will be paid to the issue of sustainability, understood as a basic design requirement. The practical activity will concern: \ The analysis of design themes with regards to the relationships among place, environment, building and occupants. \ The building systems design and their construction. \ The detailed design of the building envelope and the partitions. Structural Mechanics In order to introduce the students to the structural analysis methodologies adopted in the design phase, the following contents will be treated: \ principles of structural reliability; \ the beam structural element: assessment of elastic stresses and displacements; \ faiIure phenomena for elastic instability and strength limit of the cross sections; \ hand calculations to determine the size of structural beam/column elements. In addition, analysis of practical cases will be worked out using handbooks. The acquired knowledge and methods will be exploited to develop the conception, the structural modelling and the assessment of the studio project.

lntroduction Design progress will be developed in three design steps: \ knowledge activity up to meta-project and concept idea; \ architectural, structural, and technical design proposal at scale 1/100; \ architectural, structural, and technical design proposal with details at scale 1/50 and 1/20. Course calendar will provide lectures, learning-by-doing activities, and several reviews. Individual, team and class reviews will be intended as a chance for a continuous evaluation. External lectures or reviews by guest professors and professionals are expected, in order to promote a critical debate. Architectural and Urban Design The workflow will be framed by three kind of approaches. \ Horizontal way of doing will be used more than a vertical taught class, like we were working together in a workshop (professor and teams, teams and class). Every project will be treated along its path, trying to lead you growing day by day, but always keeping the whole in mind, trying to be a part of the same project. \ Cooperation and competition meet in a sort of “coopetition”, where the aim is to learn from anybody, so trying to exchange as much as possible and reach your difference at the same time. Short speech/presentations, Q&A sessions, cross-evaluation among teams and collective debates will be encouraged to make it happen. \ Creativity arrives from hard work, but it would be nice to have fun as well! References, texts, diagrams, moodboards, hand drawings, collages and mock-ups will be preferred to digital models (also needed at a final stage) to constantly perceive the physical body of the project and communicate its meanings at most. Architectural Technology Teaching activities are organized through frontal lectures, videos, assisted exercises and external contributions as well as through a learning-by-doing method. Students work individually and in small groups in relation to the planned activities. Joint reviews and intermediates deliveries are planned in order to compare the activities carried out and evaluate the work in progress, also with the other professors of the course. Drawings on computer support, hand drawings, physical models, three-dimensional drawings and reports, all at an appropriate level of accuracy are requested from the student along the term. For purposing a single student's assessment some exercises could be expected to be conducted individually in class so as to verify a personal path of learning. Structural Mechanics The course is delivered through lectures, classroom exercises and revisions of project documents. Students are required to plan the general structural arrangement of the class project and to derive by hand the sizing of some main structural elements after evaluation of the loads acting on them.

Architectural and Urban Design Main references are selected to link with the main topics mentioned above. SPECIAL (story/history/strategy/identity): \ E. Lupton, Design is storytelling, Cooper Hewitt, 2017 \ L. Molinari, Architecture: movements and trends from the 19th Century to the present, Skira, 2015 \ Y. Moon, Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd, Currency, 2011 \ R. Queneau, Exercises in Style, Alma Classics, 2013 (excerpt + condensed on PDF) OPEN (hardware/software/time/life) \ R. Koolhaas, Elements of architecture, Taschen, 2018 \ A. Loos, the poor little rich man, 1900 (short story on PDF) \ R. McGuire, Here, Hamish Hamilton, 2014 \ Mon Oncle, a film by Jacques Tati, 1958 (full mp4) SOCIAL (users/feeling/speaking/framework) \ J. Maeda, the laws of simplicity, the MIT press, 2006 \ R. Carver, Cathedral, Knopf, 1983 (short story on PDF) \ BIG, Yes is more, Taschen, 2009 \ G. Perec, Life: a user’s manual, Vintage Classics, 1996 Architectural Technology \ V. Bokalders, M. Block, The Whole Building Handbook. How to Design Healthy, Efficient and Sustainable Buildings, London, Earthscan, 2010 \ F.D.K. Ching, M. Mulville, European Building Construction lllustrated, Hoboken, Wiley, 2014 \ A. Deplazes (ed), Constructing Architecture: materials, processes, structures. A Handbook, Basei, Birkhauser, 2013, 3rd ed. \ E. Allen, P. Rand, Architectural detailing: Function, constructibility, aesthetics, Hoboken, Wiley, 2016, 3rd ed. \ E. Allen,J. lano, Fundamentals of building construction: Materials and methods, Hoboken, Wiley, 2014, 6th ed. Structural Mechanics Slides and handouts are available on the course webpage. Books: \ L.P. Kollar, G. Tarjan, Mechanics of Civil Engineering Structures, Elsevier, 2020 \ E. Viola, Esercitazioni di scienza delle costruzioni Vol.1, Bologna, Pitagora Editrice, 1985-1994 \ E. Viola, Esercitazioni di scienza delle costruzioni Vol.2, Bologna, Pitagora Editrice, 1985-1994

Lecture slides; Lecture notes; Multimedia materials;

Exam: Written test; Compulsory oral exam; Individual essay; Group project;

Introduction The final mark is the arithmetic mean of the evaluations by the three disciplines of the atelier. Pass marks in all disciplines are required in order to pass the final examination. Each discipline will make its own evaluation based on the design team outcomes besides the individual learnings: some step-by-step exercises will be scheduled for Architectural Technology and an individual final written test will be asked for Structural Mechanics (see details here below). Final exam will include both a presentation and discussion of the final design stage, focusing on the spatial/structural/technological systems combined together as the real aim of the Course (drawings on 3 panels A1 format and report on 10 sheets A3 format). Students will be part of small design teams (3-4 members per team), to improve their collaboration skills. Teams are built by mixing different nationalities, and the kind of collaboration within each team will be a crucial part of the evaluation. Students will be evaluated all over the semester, during several reviews and at least 3 main deliveries, in addition to the final exam interview. The final score will keep into consideration the whole performance throughout the semester thus the design process will be more significant than the final result itself. Architectural and Urban Design The final exam evaluation will be mostly focused on: \ your analysis of the site and users/personas you have designed for \ your concept idea as a design strategy providing for their needs \ your content communication both in graphics and speech. Architectural Technology Final exams as well as intermediate deliveries will consist in the presentation and discussion of the requested materials. The evaluations of the intermediate deliveries, of the level of critical taking part to the learning activities and of the final work will contribute in the final mark count. Structural Mechanics The knowledge and skills of the individual student are assessed through a written test consisting of 10 questions, lasting 90 minutes. In order to gain access to the final examination of the studio, it is necessary to achieve the test sufficiency. During the final examination, the structural content of the studio project carried out by each student/group is evaluated, even through partial marks given during the semester.

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.