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FI-I PID-204 Teoria proiectului A.3.1.3.pdf

Department:

Interior Design and Design

Course Leader:

lect. Cristia Chira

Learning outcomes:

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:
- understand and use the concepts of public space, public interior, threshold, intermediate space and collective place;
- apply methods of observing and analysing a space in use;
- formulate and argue a diagnosis of an existing public interior;
- know the evolution of public programmes, especially the library, and the principles of intervention in existing buildings;
- formulate and represent a spatial idea quickly, under time constraints;
- critically argue design decisions, in writing and orally, in relation to precedents and to the theoretical references of the discipline.

Content:

1. From the private interior to the public interior; the path of years II and III.
2. Public space and the public interior. Nolli's plan and the continuity between street and building.
3. Reading the existing building: the survey as the first form of the project; the building as palimpsest.
4. Methods of observing a space in use: usage maps, repeated observation, interviews.
5. The threshold and the entrance area. Gradations between public and private.
6. The diagnosis: spatial, temporal, social, institutional and urban causes.
7. The public library: the evolution of a programme, from book depository to third place.
8. Rehabilitating the interior: intervention or cosmetic makeover.
9. Spaces that invite appropriation: flexibility and use scenarios.
10. Detail in public space: materials, light, furniture.
11. Presenting and arguing the project.
Sketches: individual rapid design exercises related to the semester theme.

Teaching Method:

Lectures, case studies, visual analysis, applied exercises, debates; individual timed sketch exercises in the studio.

Assessment:

50% sketch (1 credit): two sketch exercises in the studio and one resit sketch; this component is passed with a minimum grade of 5 in any of them, and the highest grade is counted. 50% written paper (1 credit): a 2-3 page critical analysis of a case study related to the semester theme. Minimum passing grade: 5.

Bibliography:

Brooker, Graeme and Stone, Sally - Re-readings: Interior Architecture and the Design Principles of Remodelling Existing Buildings, RIBA Enterprises, 2004
Carrera, Judit (dir.) and Gray, Diane (ed.) - Europe City: Lessons from the European Prize for Urban Public Space, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona and Lars Müller Publishers, 2015
Gehl, Jan - Cities for People, Island Press, 2010
Hertzberger, Herman - Lessons for Students in Architecture, 010 Publishers, 1991
Liiceanu, Gabriel - Nebunia de a gândi cu mintea ta (The Madness of Thinking for Yourself), Humanitas, 2016
Mattern, Shannon - The New Downtown Library: Designing with Communities, University of Minnesota Press, 2007
Oldenburg, Ray - The Great Good Place, Paragon House, 1989
Whyte, William H. - The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, The Conservation Foundation, 1980

Notes:

The course provides the theoretical foundation for the Architectural Design projects (A.3.1.1) and (A.3.1.2), dedicated to the rehabilitation of an existing public interior.