Environmental Design - Specialization in Sustainable Urban Design - Landscape Design

Start date: March 2011 | Duration: | Language: eng

 

According to the chosen course, the Master course aims at training two professional profiles in the environmental planning scope: an architect expert in sustainability, with reference to the construction, and in urban layout (Urban course of study), and a landscape architect, expert in re-territorialisation processes or territorial requalification (Landscape course of study). In both cases, the Master course aims at training designers able to face the complexity of the contemporary world through logics of intervention in order to promote new ecology forms, i.e. new relationships between different things such as between built and natural landscape, between buildings and energy resources, between places of consumption and of production, between public and private spaces, between spaces and inhabitants, between human beings and other living species.

As a matter of fact, if the challenge of the new millennium is to produce architectures, cities and landscapes able to work in a new way by supporting life and a peaceful coexistence on our planet, it is necessary to train a new generation of designers (designers, architects and engineers) who can plan and realize a universe of architectures, cities and landscapes, not only energetically efficient but also able to self-produce - locally and without harmful wastes - the energy necessary to their operation, and to exchange energy and information on the net in a circuit of systematic relations that positively connects natural and built environment, spaces and inhabitants, human community and other living species.

Aimed at

The Master course is addressed to engineers, architects, town planners, designers, graduates in Academy of Fine Arts, in history of Art, landscape designers and professionals working in the field who want to develop further skills.

 

The Master courses in Urban and Land consist of a preliminary section shared by the two courses of study that aims at creating theoretical and practical skills concerning the concepts of sustainability, ecology, territory, ecologic mark, renewable energy, history of the city and of the territory, environmental planning principles, sustainable management of mobility and waters, agriculture of proximity. Besides the architectonic simulation (simulation based design), the technical part of the Master course in Sustainable Urban Design regards the abilities in planning renewable energy equipment, in analyzing buildings and urban systems at thermo-fluid dynamic level and in developing a design method based on the energy.

The summary workshop includes the design of a model district with zero emissions, a system of on-site phyto-depuration of the waters and agriculture of proximity, i.e. a district that works as a real urban ecosystem. The technical part of Landscape Design concerns the abilities in botany, geography, aesthetics and contemporary art, history and landscape design.

By considering the general loss of shape and structure of the city as well as of the countryside, the summary workshop will develop integrated strategies to re-create the relationship between the human being and territory, to rebuild the urban continuity and the energy self-sufficiency of a community, i.e. it will define strategies for a new sustainable development (or for a new form of garden) starting from the special characteristics of the local contests. The Master course includes theoretical lessons and lessons in lab.

The main subject of the course is the interdisciplinary comparison explained by architects, sociologists, biologists and engineers and realized on the field through an actual design exercise arranged with an external customer (research centre, institution or company), and with a teacher specialized in the considered field.

Check the students' blog from A.Y. 2009/10: http://www.sudied.blogspot.com/

Maria Luisa Palumbo
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Maria Luisa Palumbo

Architect, author of New Wombs:  Electronic Bodies and Architectural Disorder, Birkhauser, 2000.  She has collaborated with Istituto Nazionale di Architettura (National Institute of Architecture) since 2002 where she teaches architectural theory and is responsible for the scientific supervision of the Master in Digital Architecture.  As a senior fellow at the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology of the University of Toronto, she collaborated with Derrick de Kerckhove.  She has taught in several Italian universities, and was a visiting professor in various foreign universities.  From 2004 to 2008, she was the founder and curator of Romalab Laboratorio di Architettura Relazionale (Romalab Laboratory of Relational Architecture), a research lab dedicated to the exploration and diffusion of new strategies of urban development.

Viviana Gravano
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Viviana Gravano

Professor of History of Contemporary Art at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan

Silvia Cioli
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Silvia Cioli

studio UAP

Eva Alessi
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Eva Alessi

WWF

Andrea Masullo
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Andrea Masullo

WWF

Massimo Ciuffini
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Massimo Ciuffini

Naif srl

Mauro Annunziato
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Mauro Annunziato

ENEA

Lorenzo Romito
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Lorenzo Romito

Stalker

Alessandra Battisti
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Alessandra Battisti

La Spaienza

Gianfranco Bombaci
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Gianfranco Bombaci

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Andrea Marcucci
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Andrea Marcucci

Terris s.c

Alessandra Scognamiglio
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Alessandra Scognamiglio

ENEA

Barbara Invernizzi
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Barbara Invernizzi

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