Following on 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 programs: 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 constituent 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 will focuse on portions of urban areas, on the edge of the consolidated fabric, close to the historic centre, characterized by problems of "stretch marks". The reference is to the historical peripheries, where the urban and architectural quality, landscape values, overlooking the rivers and the presence of large areas of future transformation favor morphological prefigurations for a transformation still expected. In this direction, multiple in-depth studies will be encouraged, involving the disciplines that belong to the atelier, to reflect on the ways of transformation into "weak" historical fabrics, rich in widespread but also "minor" values, to experiment with practicable ways of preserving existing features and building new "compatible" images. It will then investigate the space that exists between the possible contradictions between the objective of reconstituting new urban landscapes, also by subverting current morphological patterns and the objective of preserving the characters and elements of pre-existence. Thus the heterogeneity of the mixed fabric, in its building typologies and in some elements of its layout with respect to the regular pattern of the ancient city, can be considered as a disturbing factor with respect to urban quality or instead as a positive element, because it facilitates different functions and modalities with respect to the rigour of the existing. Moreover, the homogeneous languages of the past and the diversified figures of the new constructions can suggest interventions that reinterpret the historical image with new uses or that advance alternative and contrasting images. The comparison and possible classification of the different topics will offer suggestions and indicate paths for urban modification. The diversity of typologies and languages that characterize the contemporary city can already be found in the mixed historical fabrics, even if within a dense configuration of recurrences and calls towards homogeneity: the choices of change will have to return proposals that contribute to enrich the quality of the place, that do not destroy the composite character and coherence of the image. The various advanced solutions will be gradually verified in their architectural and urban planning feasibility, simulating the ways and procedures of real modification. The paths followed will be able to compare with future plans for the reorganization of the areas and suggest new designs and strategies for real practices of urban transformation.

The studio setup foresees a first survey phase with respect to the proposed project area: a collective survey will be carried out in order to highlight several features of the territory and to undertake a dialogue with actors representing different social, political and cultural domain of the territory. Then, it follows a phase of collective analysis of the territory aimed at identifying the predominant environmental, social and architectural features and returning a critical and innovative reading. Afterwards the studio groups will choose an area on which to test specific project strategies and develop intervention hypotheses based on statistical data useful for undertaking the project activity. For this purpose, the project proposal will imply strong continuity between architectural and urban scale. Overall aim of the studio is to undertake design as a constantly challenged and redefined practice involving different scales and features of architecture and urban planning.

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Lecture slides; Lecture notes; Multimedia materials;

Exam: Compulsory oral exam; Group graphic design project; Group essay; Group project;

Attendance at the Atelier is a fundamental condition for successfully developing the planned activities. At the end of the Atelier there will be a moment of presentation of the works carried out with collective discussion and final evaluation. The final exam will consist in the presentation and discussion of the developed project. Although the Atelier activity provides for the possibility of working in groups of 3 students, the final evaluation is always individual and also takes into account ongoing reviews and discussions, intermediate evaluations, individual participation throughout the duration of the Atelier.

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