The Building Construction Studios aim to develop a whole design process of medium-low complexity buildings in well-establish urban areas. The design brief will focus on the architectural, technological and structural design of residential buildings (conventional or unconventional), small in size, taking into account the relationship with different users and time scenarios. Both technical feasibility and load-bearing frame structure (concrete, steel or wood) will be suggested in the perspective of the most appropriate design solutions.

Ability to analyse the context you are designing in and for, by dealing with the existing physical, technical and social situation to infill a brand-new multicultural identity you can provide as young professionals from abroad. 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 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 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 will take care of a site where a real process is ongoing and where a new project is needed to give a 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 combine 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 that the different technological systems of the building design should demonstrate; 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 and passive design strategies and technologies appropriate to the local climate, understood as a basic design requirement. The practical activity will concern: The analysis of design themes with regards to the relationships among place, climate and environment, building and occupants. The building systems design and their construction. The detailed design of the building envelope and partitions. Structural Mechanics. The Structural Mechanics module will provide Students with the theoretical and applicative tools needed to understand and predict the mechanical behaviour of structures. Structural Mechanics will be contextualised in relationship with the architectural form: Students will learn how to observe the building organism in its complexity, to read the load-bearing structure and the load path, to turn the latter into a model suitable for design. Lectures will cover the following topics: the deformable body, the elastic beam, the stability of elastic equilibrium, the reliability of structures. Problems will be addressed related to: modelling and analysis of the structural response to actions (loads, temperature deformations, settlements, earthquake); resistance, stability deformability verifications; design (sizing) of main structural elements. Focus will be on truss and beam systems with linear elastic behaviour, statically determinate or indeterminate. Theoretical knowledge will be reworked in a design key and Students will master the ability to apply it to the Studio project. Methods and procedures for structural design complying with European and Italian Building Codes will be provided. The design theme of the Studio project will concern braced frame structures in steel and timber.

lntroduction Design progress will be developed in three design steps: 1. analysis up to meta-project and concept idea; 2. architectural, structural, and technical design proposal at scale 1/100; 3. 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 kinds of approaches: 1. 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). 2. 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. 3. 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, mood boards, 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 Teaching activities will consist of lectures, classroom exercises, homework assignments, reviews of the Studio project. Homework assignments will be carried out individually by each Student in order to verify the personal learning path. Students will work in small teams on the structural design of the Studio project.

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 users 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, Basel, 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. Textbook Russell C. Hibbeler, Mechanics of Materials, Eleventh Edition in SI Units, Pearson, 2023. Recommended readings Claudio Bernuzzi, Benedetto Cordova, Structural Steel Design to Eurocode 3 and AISC Specifications, John Wiley & Sons, 2016. Hans Larsen, Vanik Enjily, Practical design of timber structures to Eurocode 5, Thomas Telford, 2009. Additional readings M. Millais, Building structures – understanding the basics, 3rd Ed., Routledge, 2017. D. Schodek, M. Bechthold, Structures. 7th edition. Pearson, 2013. A. Charleson, Seismic Design for Architects. Architectural Press - Elsevier, 2008. ISBN 978-0-7506-8550-4 F.D.K. Ching, Building Structures Illustrated: Patterns, Systems, and Design. 2nd edition. Wiley, 2013. F.D.K. Ching, European Building Construction Illustrated. Wiley, 2014.

Slides; Dispense; Materiale multimediale ;

Modalità di esame: Prova scritta (in aula); Prova orale obbligatoria; Elaborato scritto individuale; Elaborato progettuale in gruppo;

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 design teams (3-4-5 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 to the final mark count. Structural Mechanics. The evaluation of the Structural Mechanics module will consist in the average of 2 grades: A) the Studio project team grade; B) the individual Student grade. Both grades must be at least passing. Final grade is individual. A) The structural design of the Studio project is developed as a teamwork and is assessed by way of a Team grade. Required project deliverables are: - structural design drawings and schemes in scale 1:100 and 1:20 on panels; - one report on structural design. The evaluation is based on the oral discussion of the project deliverables and takes into account continued participation in the Studio teaching activities. B) Knowledge and skills of the single Student will be assessed by way of an individual grade and evaluated through: individual homework assignments; a final written exam. Both the homework assignments and the written exam will deal with problems of structural analysis, verification, and design that develop the understanding of the topics presented in class lectures. Consistent with the expected learning outcomes, it will be assessed: the understanding of the theoretical aspects of the discipline; the ability to correctly apply theoretical knowledge and methodologies to solving application problems; competence in the quantitative aspects of the assigned problems. The duration of the written exam is 90 minutes. The use of a non-programmable scientific calculator is permitted. Supporting material (formularies) that may be used during the written exam will be available on the Teaching Portal. Examples of past written exams will be available on the Teaching Portal.

Gli studenti e le studentesse con disabilità o con Disturbi Specifici di Apprendimento (DSA), oltre alla segnalazione tramite procedura informatizzata, sono invitati a comunicare anche direttamente al/la docente titolare dell'insegnamento, con un preavviso non inferiore ad una settimana dall'avvio della sessione d'esame, gli strumenti compensativi concordati con l'Unità Special Needs, al fine di permettere al/la docente la declinazione più idonea in riferimento alla specifica tipologia di esame.