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URBAN
AND ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
Coordinator: Prof.ssa Ilaria Valente
The new forms of citizenship resulting from globalisation, which
require access to the urban spaces of the world that they intend
to use and inhabit, call on the architectural design of urban spaces
to identify two alternative but interdependent structures, both
of which lead to the other depending on alternative methods of use:
one is prosthetic - networks - providing immediate and
direct connections between discrete and acontextual points, and
the other is natural - fabrics - providing a free, contextual means
of living that is sequential and continuous.
The Doctorate in Architectural and Urban Architectural Design sums
up these wide-ranging problems and aims to form a specific centre
for the promotion of studies and research aimed at this theoretical,
methodological and experimental reconstruction. It aims to attain
this goal through the reiteration of theoretical procedures and
practical experiments, checking the effective correspondence between
the latter (a practical exercise of theoretical planning on an urban
scale). This methodical procedure will be used to train researchers
and professional figures who are specifically qualified to deal
with this new horizon of problems and to formulate suitable responses
by elaborating the necessary methods and instruments.
The fundamental subject of the research is therefore "the scale
of the contemporary city" in its multiple aspects, and in particular
in relation to the multiscalarity of architectural organisations
and the size of urban prostheses. In other words, the innovative
correlation between the global and local scale and the analysis
of three correlated themes and problems:
1. The multiscalarity of the architectural project on a local scale,
both in historic centres or consolidated cities and in periurban
areas;
2. The definition of new prototypes relating to new urban functions;
the new morphological relations between fabrics and networks, and
the new locations for developments, paying special attention to
the methods of joining the fabrics and networks;
3. The landscape features of large networked engineering structures,
paying special attention to the problems of perception and inhabitability
in the reciprocal and separate settings of natural landscapes and
technical environments.
The training structure of the doctorate, in line with the methodical
principle of the theoretical practice of architectural design, is
mainly accomplished in three workshops on architectural and urban
design, one for each of the three years. The workshops, combined
with integrated courses, thematic seminars and tests at the key
stages, aim to prepare the students for architectural and urban
planning, paying special attention to the following themes:
1.
Town design and the architecture of open spaces;
2. Typological design of urban organisations with complex functions;
3. Infrastructures and landscapes. and the student chooses his/her
thesis in the context of the workshop itself.
The Postgraduate doctorate in Architectural and Urban Design aims
to develop a number of differentiated skills and to promote a wider
expertise regarding the various aspects of architectural and urban
design. Differences in terms of professional profile depend on the
directions that the student chooses within the context of the workshop,
in agreement with the teaching staff and depending on the personalised
study programmes approved by the board.
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