Abstract:

This paper aims to address the teaching experimentation developed as part of the Environmental Design course positioned in the fifth year of the Architecture Master course of the Department of Architecture and Industrial Design of the Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”. The reference focus of the teaching experiment concerned the environmental re-balancing of urban open spaces applied to an assigned case study. In particular, the prefigured objective is to sensitize students about the analysis and design technologies that can be used in such interventions that differ from the traditional ones referable to a single building or even to building contexts because applying to the environment they must consider a complexity of variously interrelated factors.

The didactic experimentation includes an initial phase in which the preliminary analysis is developed. This analysis consists of a careful and punctual examination of the environmental conditions of the studied context highlighting the factors that determine the conditions of pollution and degradation. Hence, they can also be graded on a functional sensitivity scale and, above all, it is possible to perceive what particularly are the elements on which to intervene and how, in order to carry out interventions that can really concretize a new and restored environmental condition.

The next didactic phase concerns the transition from analysis to design and still has a particular typicality. However, in that the object of design is the protection of the environmental conditions of the territory from the impact caused by urban development. In this regard, it is pointed out to students that the project must be carried out by multidisciplinary professionals unified by coordination that always keeps in mind the objective of environmental protection and the factors to be controlled and modified as they evolve.

In conclusion, the didactic path presented aims to define the structure of the rebalancing project, which is configured as an integrated and coordinated set of interventions: on mobility and viability, on greenery and urban furnishings, on plant and infrastructure systems and on relational spaces. The objectives are to qualify life, protect health and increase the safety of the inhabitants.

Keywords:

Didactic experimentation, Environmental re-balancing, Urban open spaces.