Abstract:

The didactic issues of the Technology of Architecture, one of the design disciplines, range from the construction themes (relation between building site and city, eco-oriented materials and environmental impacts, innovative technological solutions and innovative use of traditional technological solutions) to the environmental ones (territory, urban landscape, environmental networks), as far as the interest for the opportunities offered by the most recent digital tools addressed both to the decision support and to the effective elaboration of the project.

The group of ICAR12 professors of the Department of Architecture and Industrial Design (DADI) of the University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" is actually developing three lines of research that are also reflected in the methods and contents of teaching: the sustainability of building interventions and their impact on the urban context during the construction phase (Construction Site / City); the interest in eco-oriented materials and energy saving (Zero Energy Buildings towards Embodied Zero Energy Buildings); BIM Technology and material innovation. On these guidelines, teaching and research find moments of fruitful convergence, with a multiscale and interdisciplinary approach. The wide range of disciplinary interests and the emphasis placed by each teacher ranges from the theoretical field to the application of production, construction site and new materials.

The present paper focuses on training offer and innovative methods of carrying out innovative, participatory and strongly interdisciplinary didactics, which privileges the forms of laboratory and intensive application, such as workshops, provided in the five-years study course in Architecture, First Cycle Degree Course of Building Science and Techniques, Design and Communication and Fashion Design, and Second Cycle Degree Courses of Architecture-Interior Design and for Autonomy of DADI.

Teachings are based on needs-requirement-performance approach and use of specialised ICT tools for performance monitoring. The disciplinary contents are oriented to the definition of appropriate technical solutions that, in line with the principles of sustainability and eco-compatibility, are an expression of operational continuity between design decision-making and technical implementation. The specific in-depth studies concern the control of functional and user aspects, the application of bioclimatic and energy conscious design principles, the analysis of synergies and exchanges of materials and energy between the building system and the environment, energy saving and the rational use of resources to guarantee environmental quality and the thermo-hygrometric comfort of confined spaces, the integration of innovative systems, materials, components and construction techniques. In this perspective, the teaching aims to provide methodological and technical operational tools for the development of the technological design (from meta-project to executive phase), through the identification of detailed technological solutions oriented to its constructability.

The technical implementation also aims to provide basic knowledge of the materials and elements that make up building systems to introduce students to the understanding of the dialectical relationship between technical choices, architectural expressiveness and environmental sustainability.

Keywords:

Technological design, Zero Energy Buildings, Environmental design, innovation, computer skills.