Abstract:

The present work aims to present a transversal and multidisciplinary teaching experience in the architectural field involving the fields of technology, urban planning and representation of the territory.

This experience, developed through educational activities shared in contents and innovative delivery methods, is oriented towards the definition of technical and constructive solutions which, in line with the principles of sustainability and eco-compatibility of design interventions, are an expression of operational continuity among decision-making choices and the technical realization. All the disciplinary sectors involved contribute to the definition of the decision-making choices and, each for their own skills, aim to provide tools and methodologies aimed at controlling the design process capable of combining the analytical skills with the operational ones. The advantage of this transversal educational turns out to be that the university student has to face the problems according to broader facets than those of the single sector to which the teaching belongs. The choice of the sectors involved is not causal but responds to the need to identify all those that contribute to define, in the context of environmental modification works, the relationships that are established between pre-existing and new environmental configuration, in order to optimize technologies, construction processes and materials for the improvement of the quality of the environment and the achievement of human well-being. The technical awareness is pursued through the acquisition of information and knowledge that are applied operationally to case studies concerning the redevelopment and renaturalization of urban open spaces in highly anthropized contexts in order to configure these areas as nodal elements able to perform the delicate function of connection between the urbanized and the surrounding natural system. In addition to all this, recently there is also the need, downstream of the COVID-19 health emergency, to supply appropriate multifunctional open spaces in the urban areas in order also to rethink the rules for access and use of areas for collective sociality.

In order to arrive at an applicative definition of the concepts previously discussed, the paper will show some applications based on teaching exercises on appropriately structured case studies.

This didactic experience has also provided the opportunity to implement research activities shared between the authors on the topics previously discussed and subsequently also resulting in the presentation of research projects.

Keywords:

Multidisciplinary teaching, environmental sustainability, eco-oriented solutions.