Starting in November 2020.

The Course (design studio) investigates the emerging issues of contemporary urban and residential design in Rome through the analysis of the implementation procedures of the Action Plans (Piani di Zona) produced in Rome during the 1st and 2nd PEEP (Public Housing Programmes): naturally the analysis includes the the study of the Action Plan developed for the same area by the group of architects led by Paolo Portoghesi in the years '80 of the last Century. The Course takes also into consideration also the most significant cases of the urban design morphology and typology literature, from the Modern Movement to the Roman School (civic/urban architecture lessons by Piacentini, Muratori, Caniggia, Quaroni) and up to the most significant case-studies of contemporary urbanisms; the Course will consider also the general sustainability of the projects and takes also into consideration the “real estate market” trends.

The Course simulates the real implementation  process of “the city per parts", from the urban scheme to the architectural and structural scale, taking into consideration the fact that not very often the Urban Designer is responsible of the Architectural Design of all the buildings. Therefore the Course is divided in two phases: in the First Phase the students, organized in little groups, act as Urban Designers and produce a Master Plan for the whole settlement, including all rules, regulations and suggestions to indirectly lead the architectural design of the single buildings. In the second Phase each student is bound to architecturally designing a building or a little group of buildings included in a plot belonging to one of the Master Plans previously selected. 

The Master Plans are mainly developed at the scale 1/1000, with some more detailed samples. The architectural design of a single building or of a little group of buildings is developed at the normal architectural scales (1/200, 1/100, 1/50, 1/20). The architectural design includes also the major aspects of the construction technologies and of the structural design.