ARCHITECTURE

Course details

Academic Year:

2017/2018

Type of Course:

Magistrale degree

Degree Class:

LM-4 - Architecture And Architectural Engineering

Duration in years:

Credits:

120

Location:

ALGHERO

Department:

ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN AND URBAN PLANNING

Entry test:

Type of access:

locally planned access

Compulsory attendance:

Positions available (locally planned access):

Course website:

https://www.uniss.it/ugov/degree/9034

Course in brief

The central issues are those related to the architectural, urban environmental and spatial design, the design in historical contexts in situations of durability and sustainability nature; in particular, the design of the natural and cultural landscape with the objective of creating individual and social sustainable models of living, using it as imperative the need to use and recover to better the existing assets, without having to consume more the available land.

List of Courses

Course year: 1

ANCIENT TOPOGRAPHY - 4 credits - Elective Course - Optional
Architectural design in historical contexts - Design and restoration studio - 20 credits - Compulsory
Architectural theory and design - 6 credits - Characterising - Compulsory
BUILDING TECHNIQUE - 8 credits - Characterising - Compulsory
CITY AND LAW - 4 credits - Elective Course - Optional
COMPLEMENTS OF BUILDING SCIENCE - 3 credits - Elective Course - Optional
HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE III - 6 credits - Characterising - Compulsory
Right to the city - 10 credits - Compulsory
STRUCTURES DYNAMICS - 8 credits - Optional
Urban design - Architectural design studio 1 - 12 credits - Compulsory

Course year: 2

COMPUTER AND TELEMATIC SKILLS - 3 credits - Compulsory
FINAL TEST - 19 credits - Language/Final Examination - Compulsory
PROGETTO E SOSTENIBILITA' - 22 credits - Compulsory
PROJECT METHODOLOGY - 6 credits - Related/Supplementary - Compulsory
STUDENT OPTIONAL ACTIVITIES - 8 credits - Elective Course - Compulsory

Expected Skills

Area of the analysis and of the structural design in architecture

Knowledge and know-how:
The student in Architecture has to know the most important building systems for single and multi-storey buildings, with particular reference to the resistance to vertical and horizontal stresses. Moreover, he must know the method of limit state design, and he must be able to check simple structures in steel and reinforced concrete. Finally, he must be able to calculate dead and operational loads, snow and wind, and their effects on structures.

Ability to apply knowledge and know-how:
The student of Architect must be able to pre size the load-bearing structure of a mono- and multi-storey building. In addition, he must be able to design and check a simple steel structure including bracing elements, and a simple structure of reinforced concrete (slab, beam and pillar) subject to prevailing vertical stresses.

Area of estimate disciplines for architecture and urbanism

Knowledge and know-how:
Students will take over the theory of Plan Assessment, programs and projects both from the formal point of view of deepening methods and approaches, and from the operating point of view in order to apply the assessment in the project construction.

Ability to apply knowledge and know-how:
Students will be able to put into practice in their activities approaches, methods and techniques for the multi criteria evaluation of plans, programs and architectural projects of regional, national and EU importance.

Area of urban and spatial planning

Knowledge and know-how:
As far as the field of planning and urbanism is concerned graduates will acquire the knowledge that extend and / or strengthen what is typically associated with first cycle and allow him to develop and / or apply original ideas, often within a research context.
This occurs primarily through the interdisciplinary experience of design workshops that address issues and draw prospects for the city, the territory and the landscape transformation, , in accordance with the system of constraints that affect every project and plan and developing a knowledge and a deep understanding and a critical awareness of the issues and of the most advanced concepts within the scope.

Ability to apply knowledge and know-how:
The master graduate, within planning and urbanism scope, will be able to deal with the complex issues of city, land and landscape planning, even if incompletely defined and with competing specifications, applying the acquired knowledge, methods, techniques and instruments and he will also have the ability to design and carry out experiments and interpret the results in interdisciplinary design workshops.
In addition, the graduates must be able to find the most appropriate intervention strategies related to the different issues of plan and project and to distinguish the definition scales required with the various project opportunities.

Area of theories and techniques for architectural restoration

Knowledge and know-how:
Students must have a thorough and analytical knowledge of all disciplines that contribute to the structuring of the architectural restoration project, i.e. they must be able to:
- Define, with critical awareness, the historical context that generated the architecture and highlight it in styles, materials, techniques, needs, characters, workers and elements of the building lexicon;
- recognize the main structural elements of historical architecture and its traditional materials with particular reference to the system of street fronts of historical urban scenes;
- organize the dimensional geometric detection of an architectural complex and its graphical return
- understand the nature of the issues related to the structural operation of a building;
- look at the architectural object as connected to the environment, the territory, the history and to the complexity of the context;
- extract from the styles and design experiences the logical and not rigid schemes to set up and interact with the problems;
- see in the design and in the archival research opportunities for the knowledge of reality.

Ability to apply knowledge and know-how:
Students must be proficient in applying their knowledge to new and unprecedented situations - knowledge that meets a rigorous design methodology that is the basis of the architectural restoration.
Students must be able to apply their knowledge to new and unprecedented situations - ability not respondent to rigid and predetermined rules nor intuitive or instinctive, but responding to a rigorous design methodology that is the basis of the architectural and urban restoration .
In that they need to know how to adapt this method to the historical built reality around them by developing a process that links all of their knowledge from the geometric reality of a good, its matter, its condition up to the restoration hypotheses.
They need to know how to integrate and enrich each application through the awareness of the cultural dimensions of the intervention, dimensions developed as regards the analysis, and properly integrated to subjects relating to the construction and management of complexity.
They can develop their technical and scientific and historical-critical expertise in new or innovative contexts, in situations ever faced before, with partial or vague knowledge of the acquired information.
They know, finally, to relate the awareness of the necessity of protecting and preserving the architecture of historic centers with current and historical cultural tendencies about and because of the legal and professional framework.

Area of physics and plants engineering a for architecture

Knowledge and know-how:
Fundamental knowledge that allow the student to relate the design choices with the techniques of energy control and indoor comfort. Understanding of the fundamentals of heat transfer, principles of air conditioning , basic concepts of acoustics and lighting technique applied to the building.

Ability to apply knowledge and know-how:
Ability to apply the acquired knowledge and to quantify the studied phenomena through energy, air conditioning, acoustics and lighting application exercises. Check of the acquired understanding and skills but also of the ability to process them and use them in project area.

Area of urban architectural design

Knowledge and know-how:
The Area teachings deliver knowledge and understanding as acquisition of appropriate knowledge to interpret the complex issues related to the designed t transformation of the built environment . In particular the teachings of the area, thanks to the activity organized in laboratories, set themselves the objective of providing tools and design methods to interpret the different aspects of the project in the existing state, of sustainability and architectural and urban design at various scales.

Ability to apply knowledge and know-how:
The application of knowledge is via the project workshops, which become the tool to reconstruct the architectural shaping, morphological, structural, environmental, typological,. aspects within the design process,
The design labs can in turn coordinate with other disciplines, among those which are specific or supplementary and complementary, thus allowing both the application of the acquired knowledge in those matters too, and the application of interdisciplinary arguments.

Area of technological disciplines for architecture and building production

Knowledge and know-how:
The student is formed both through the knowledge of the characteristics of construction materials and of functional coupling criteria; and, through the knowledge of different frameworks and scales of the design process. The student must also know the environmental influences acting on the building from which the material degradation phenomena are derived; at the same time he will have to manage the complex technical control of the project underlying the requiring-performing approach.

Ability to apply knowledge and know-how:
The student, starting from the characteristics of the materials that are known to him, will be able to analyze the technical elements from catalogue and then to design new ones,
He must also be able, through performance evaluations, to check the environmental impact of the adopted construction choices and to reconstruct, through the technological design of the building the synthesis between design and construction.

Area representation of the architecture and of the landscape

Knowledge and know-how:
Students must demonstrate understanding and full knowledge, also operationally, of the instruments and of the basic systems for the construction, interpretation and use of the drawn and digital cartography, of satellite and detected by airplane images to manage them in a GIS environment. They must acquire the ability to gather and interpret geographic information layers assessing their structure and contents.
They must also acquire knowledge and understanding of drawing as an expressive and of visual communication act for the design concept, theories, methods, techniques, presentation and communication of the project to different scales of operation. They must know and understand the technical norms regarding representation and design, graphical languages in the different fields of application and in the possible different expressions.

Ability to apply knowledge and know-how:
Students must be able to apply their knowledge and their ability to understand, in a manner that indicates a professional approach to their work, and must possess appropriate skills for a complete experience in the construction of territorial analyses on cartographic bases in a GIS environment; they must be able to communicate information, ideas, problems and solutions to specialists and non-specialists in urban planning and land use planning sectors.
They must acquire the ability to use the drawing as an expressive and visual communication act of the design idea from the formation of the idea to its enforceable definition. They must acquire ability to choose, use and combine methods, techniques and presentation and communication tools within all phases of the design process and at the same time they must be able to use and apply technical standards and knowledge in the field of representation and projects and the graphic languages in the different fields of application with the possible different expressions.

Area of economic, social, law disciplines for architecture and urbanism

Knowledge and know-how:
Students must have a good knowledge of the role of public institutions, of the sources of law, of the control mechanisms in construction activity and of planning issues at all levels.

Ability to apply knowledge and know-how:
Students must apply their own knowledge by framing the specific legal issues relating to a specific operating context, in particular regarding:
-the public administration; procedures and administrative acts; agreements; private law activities; accountability of public administration; judicial protection.
-the discipline of the government of the areas and protected interests; land use planning; the different types of plans: content, procedures and legal aspects
-the control on the construction activity; housing tenure status; abuse and penalties.

Area of historical disciplines for architecture

Knowledge and know-how:
Students, gained the overall knowledge of the most representative monuments of European architecture from the fourteenth until the nineteenth century, must develop an understanding of the individual architectural monument in the historical-cultural context of the city by applying the methodological basis of iconology.

Ability to apply knowledge and know-how:
The application of acquired skills will enable students to design buildings not only functional but also representative of an architecture which is inserted in the historical-cultural context of the place.

Area of similar or additional training activities

Knowledge and know-how:
The master student will acquire the fundamental knowledge that enable him to frame what are the characteristics of a historical context. This will allow the student to give a detailed account of not just the answers as rather the questions that the project should ask to history, to clarify whether they can be limited to individual objects (monuments / documents, history capacitors) or should investigate the historical "processes" which have interested, over time, territories, cities, landscapes and, even more, their vertical and horizontal intersections,.
They will also have to demonstrate a thorough and analytical knowledge of the main methodological-philosophical problems. In particular, it will be important to get a lively and dynamic competence of the fundamental questions of epistemology and ethics, and a reached awareness concerning their own ability to organize and differentiate the concepts, to check the claims of truth and to explain the rationale and theoretical positions.

Ability to apply knowledge and know-how:
Through the gained knowledge, the student should be able to overcome the established view that the historical context is a container of historical objects that are particularly evident and, if possible, physically well preserved. And this is also be true for the other project, the "historical" par excellence, the one that elects the cultural memory and his fetishes for protagonists: the project for the restoration, recovery, enhancement.
They must also demonstrate the ability to apply the subject contents to the analysis and the cognitive organization of any matter. The notional instruments must be placed at the service of a non-improvised ability to problematize, based on the conceptual distinction, on the formulation of hypotheses, on the propensity to critical control, on the imagination of alternatives and possibilities logically monitored, on the centrality. of rational arguments.

Areas for Career Opportunities

Graduates in Architecture can achieve the qualification for the exercise of the following regulated professions: Architect, Agronomist graduate and forestry graduate , civil engineer and environmental engineer, landscape architect, land planner.

Position in a workplace:
The graduate will be able to design, through the tools which are specific of architecture and civil engineering, the procedure for construction, processing and modification of the physical environment, with a full knowledge of the aesthetic, distributional, functional, structural, technical and constructional , managerial, economic and environmental aspect with a critical attention to the cultural changes and the needs expressed by contemporary society.
He will prearrange work projects and direct their implementation, by coordinating to that end other specialists and operators in the fields of architecture, construction engineering, planning and architectural restoration.
In particular, graduates will have the following skills:
-knowledge of methodological and operational aspects of the areas typical of the major and ability to identify and solve architecture and construction problems using updated methods, techniques and tools;
- adequate knowledge of the aspects regarding the technical and economic feasibility, the cost calculation and of the production and implementation process of architectural and building products, as well as aspects related to their safety;
- ability to use the techniques and tools for the design of architectural and building products.

These proficiencies can enable graduates to become autonomous designers in :
- the applied research in the fields of architecture and civil engineering;
- the design of buildings and civil artifacts and ideational and procedural processes involved;
-the design of restoration of architectural heritage also of complex character;
- processes useful to detect, represent, design, oversee the construction and maintenance of artifacts and plants and safety-related systems;
-the price analysis of architecture processes and in economic aspects of construction operations.

Position-related skills:
The graduate will be able to design, through the tools which are specific of architecture and civil engineering, the procedure for construction, processing and modification of the physical environment, with a full knowledge of the aesthetic, distributional, functional, structural, technical and constructional , managerial, economic and environmental aspect with a critical attention to the cultural changes and the needs expressed by contemporary society.

Career opportunities:
A graduate, after obtaining the qualification and passing the state examination to practice the profession, finds his natural place in the world of employment in technical departments of public and private companies, in architectural and engineering firms operating in the field of architectural design or in production processes and building products.
In detail, graduates can find employment at:
- private design -structures organized as engineering companies as well;
- technical offices in public bodies, integrated in the design and management roles in the processes of commitment of the work that compete to the contracting authority with scientific roles of primary importance and govern;
- technical offices in public bodies, integrated in official roles attending processes linked in various ways to the control the territory from the point of view of construction activity in a general sense with roles of primary importance and govern;
- private companies linked to production and marketing of building products, artifacts and related services.
-structures for vocational and educational training at various levels both of private and public character;
- public bodies of various kinds in roles not immediately related to the profile of the graduate, but at the level for which the qualification is required for access.

Access requirements

Applicants who request the access to the Master of Science must be in possession of the following requirements:
a) passing the admission test to the national programmed cl selection at limited enrolment;
b) possession of the degree in class L17 of Italian academic system or achievement of the minimum credits indicated in the class L 17 for each subject area.
As detailed in teaching directive of the major in Architecture an audit of the personal preparation of the candidate is also planned on the basis of previous studies curriculum, of the portfolio and an interview or test, which will also have to verify that the applicant is able to fluently use at least one European language besides Italian with reference to disciplinary lexicons. This verification will give rise to a ranking for admission to the major. The evaluation of curricula of study abroad will be carried out on the basis of a correspondence between the course content and the scientific-disciplinary sectors. Any additions to the curriculum in terms of credits must be acquired prior to the assessment of individual preparation.

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Fees

Fees are governed by a single set of rules applicable to all courses, as articulated in the

Regolamento Carriere of the University of Sassari (page 11) and in Annex 5.2 thereof

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