CONCEPTUAL DESIGN FOR LIVING PLACES: INHABIT, HABIT, OUT OF HABIT

In the last decades, the attention on sustainability aspects represents, also in case of historical architecture, one of the most important research theme. In the university sphere, by the “CAMPUS SOSTENIBILE” project, the Politecnico di Milano launched a reflection on different scales oriented to efficacious actions to involve different operators.
On the didactic sphere, occasions for meeting have been planned as well as educational workshops and design activities for students (“atmosphere” project) oriented to the conscious re-utilization of the university spaces and structures.

The METADESIGN ARCHITECTURE WORKING-STUDIO ACTIVITIES (MAWA) realized it in the sphere of the activities of Continuing Education Course of Civil and Environmental Engineering Department of Politecnico di Milano in collaboration with Istituto di Istruzione Superiore Argentia - Gorgonzola (Milano) – Construction, Environment, Territory studying course belongs to this proposal.

The course is placed within the didactical proposal called “work-studio learning activities”. Through a didactical laboratory, the students have been guided to a realisation of a meta-project.

This paper retraces the didactical experience oriented to the project of study and free-time spaces for the students of the University campus.

The topics of the study are:
- Sustainable Campus and “atmosphere” project: cultural reference and design orientation
- Study and relief of the project area: perception and vision of the built
- Analysis of the needs and declination of the project theme
- Primaries gestures of architectonical composition and meta-design
- Wooden Project and construction: theory and practice of the project and meeting with production world
- Virtual and scale Modeling

Each theme will be presented with goals, didactical methodologies, seminar communication.