Project BSc2-I: Housing - Atelier Angonese

As usual, each academic year is dedicated to a theoretical theme that characterises the teaching experience. This practice allows the project to be inscribed in a broader reflection on themes of contemporary architecture.

The annual theme will be 'Forms of Water'. Throughout human history, water has shaped buildings, cities and entire cultures, dictating their physical structure, poetic essence and relationship to the environment. Large bodies of water have influenced relations between nations, the shape of the city and urban planning, generating infrastructure and devices to ensure the coexistence of nature and artifice.

Human settlements close to water have, since time immemorial, enjoyed great opportunities, but today they must also take into account the risks linked to climate change and the violence of the natural elements. The evocative and architectural power of water has, however, always been present in architecture, and it is in this relationship that we want to place our discussion. A poetic but contemporary and informed discussion on the risks and the immense value that this element will assume in the future.

The first semester we will work in a city that makes its relationship with water its very reason, Venice, and the project programme will be an artist's atelier on the mouth of the canal in the Giardini della Biennale.

To get closer to the theme, we will begin the semester with the Redesign and Reconstruction exercise, which will be devoted to ten architectural objects.

The ambition of the course is to broaden and consolidate the students' architectural awareness, in particular related to the theme of domestic space, providing them with those architectural tools necessary for the continuation of their studies and future professional practice. The method employed is based on the well-established principles of the Construction of the Idea.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• Responsible consumption and production

In presence

The method of the atelier is based on the process of the Construction of the Idea,  which is the formulation of an architectural idea only after a careful and conscious process that starts from an initial intuition and goes through moments of cultural, tectonic and interdisciplinary reflection.

From a methodological point of view the construction of an idea is always strongly influenced by individuality, i.e. by processes that make a systematic or dogmatic classification difficult. This does not mean being allowed to be arbitrary. On the contrary, the process of constructing the idea obliges us to translate intuition through a process of research into its origin and motives, keeping in mind a precise system of cultural values that are also and above all the object of our teaching.

The tools needed to approach this methodology and that the atelier seeks to transmit to students are curiosity, passion and a certain degree of self-criticism.

Intermediate and final critic with guests.

• Venezia, 03.10.24 - 06.10.24 (Compulsory)