Project I: Atelier Moor

The Atelier is centered on the development of a large-scale strategic plan, which will become more precise over the course of the semester. Once the masterplan has been defined, students, working in pairs, will each develop a specific program, from public buildings to social housing.  To achieve a coherent overall result, groups will maintain a continuous dialogue, supported by the creation of a common physical model and site plan. The individual projects must be correlated with each other and manifest a shared overall vision. The study trip, an integral part of the teaching program, will contribute to enhance the reflection on the structure of the city through the discovery or rediscovery of fundamental urban facts.

The course aims to provide students with the necessary tools to confront, transform, and resolve complex situations at the urban and territorial scale. The intention is to demonstrate that, when based on a careful analysis of the site in all its components, the precise integration of an element—clearly defined in its spatial and structural composition— can stitch together and reorder, in a single gesture, a constantly changing context, thereby relating and revealing distinct parts of the territory to make them a unified whole.

In presence

The idea is to use the project as a tool for investigation. Through this design approach, the site and its context will be analyzed to identify their specificities and issues. For this reason, the site visit will take place only after the first intentions have been formulated, to verify their relevance. Progress will be reviewed weekly through collective critiques. Interactions between the different groups will be encouraged in order to promote the evolution of a common approach. Likewise, shared criteria of representation will be proposed to facilitate dialogue and analogy between the groups.

Critique finale