After successful completion of the course, students are able to...
plan and prepare an international study trip in a professional manner
learn the importance of diverse social and political contexts to the design agenda and city planning
learn the relationships between social, economic, construction, and design agendas with an international context
use analytical skills to interpret complex urban context and the importance of the specific typology [housing] to the broader urban context analyse the historical, cultural and social phenomena that influence the design of housing projects interpret the relationships between social and cultural practices and architecture and urban design; demonstrate creative and interpretative skills in presenting research data and analysis; and
demonstrate advanced skills in methods of visualisation, representation and spatialisation of research findings.
WAM - Workshops in Architecture and Urban Morphology
W.A.M. -Workshops in Architecture and urban Morphology are a design-scientific experience directed to the mainthemes of Architecture and Sustainable Urban Design using Urban Morphology as main investigative tool (since2013 WAM have been attended in Helsinki, Barcelona, Krakow, Valencia, Porto, Istanbul, Glasgow).
Areas covered by the workshops are always strictly real to ensure the scientific utility of the design experience and to qualify itself as an effective design methodology in urban morphology and sustainable urban design.
Each workshop involves then one or more institutions (universities, municipalities, foundations, research centers) and it is coordinated by academics, practitioners, experts and tutors. It is held in three stages: a first one, methodological, during which the participants (MSc graduands) learn the main instruments of Urban Morphology andEnvironmental Analysis applying them to the ‘structural’ and sustainable reading of the project area; a second phase, the in-the-field Workshop, during which they verify their reading and set up the project’s main frame; a third and final one entirely dedicated to the Environmental Design and to the preparation of the Urban Project.
At the end, the most interesting results are published in a series aimed at documenting the possibleeducational/operative outcomes of a morphological-sustainable design methodology for the contemporary city*
(https://www.lulu.com/search?slug=Morphology%29&page=1&q=Maretto&pageSize=10&adult_audience_rating=00).
A number of elaborates are then summarized as follows: i) Context Morphological Map (analysis) and NodalitySurvey; ii) Context Functional Map; iii) Context Environmental Analysis iv) Morphological Master plan and Morphological Map (design); iv) Environmental Design; and v) Urban Master plan.
The Context Morphological Map analyses the context in terms of “space-form” and creates the basis on which toenter all the available functional data (Context Functional Map). A quite important role is played, in this phase, by the Pedestrian Movement Flows (PMF) mapping within the spaces of the city (by mobility Apps and Space Syntax software). In this way a clear hierarchy of use of urban spaces is possible, defining a Dynamic Morphological Map on which to set all subsequent choices. From these two instruments it is possible to carry out an initial Morphological Master plan. The latter is a tool that processes the morphological and functional elements in order to prepare the basisfor the subsequent Urban Master plan. But the Environmental Analysis will have to turn this tool into a proper master plan. It will be the intelligent response to environmental data to conform the new urban environment, both from the volumetric point of view and from the basic architectural one and both for what concerns the design of public spaces. The result is an urban master plan that is morphologically, functionally, architecturally and environmentally conscious.
A tool on which to place all the complexities of the contemporary city without losing the ability of place-making.
* For additional information see: Maretto, M (2018), Teaching Urban Morphology in a Sustainable Perspective, Springer,
TU WIEN & UNIVERSITÄT PARMA:
MLADEN JADRIC, MARCO MARETTO
WITH GUESTPROFESSORS FROM BOTH UNIVERSITIES
PARTICIPATION IN THE WORKSHOP AT THE TU WIEN BETWEEN 20.02.23 TO 24.02.23 IS MANDATORY AND A CONDITION FOR PARTICIPATION
