The educational objective of the course is to provide methods and tools for the architectural design, meant as the ability to analyse and operationally integrate needs, functional and formal requirements, technical and constructive solutions of a building, exploring the possibilities and the ways of interaction between the multiple contextual factors of the project (behavioural, environmental, social, economic, productive) with the aim to organize and to direct them to the attainment of the maximum consistency between the culture and quality of the built environment. Specific objectives of the course are:
- capacity of analysis of the relationship between environmental systems and technological ones;
- knowledge of the issues related to technical feasibility of the project in relation to the regulatory, productive and procedural environment;
- developing an "integrated" vision of the design problems;
- developing the ability to control techniques for using them appropriately in the project;
- knowledge of the expressive potentials of the available material resources;
- ability to search for an appropriate language to express the characters of contemporaneity;
- developing the sensitivity to the needs of compatibility and sustainability of the building as significant paradigms of contemporary architecture, including the issues related to the energy sustainability.
At the end of the training process, students have to demonstrate their ability to produce an architectural project for a residential building (multi-family and multi-storey) developed from the urban scale to the executive one.