TECHNICAL ARCHITECTURE I AND LABORATORY A - L

Module TECHNICAL ARCHITECTURE I

Knowledge of basic and preformed materials for the construction of buildings and civil engineering projects.

Knowledge of common construction techniques for civil engineering projects.

Basics of traditional construction techniques.

Detailed design using traditional and innovative materials.

5 hours per week during the 1st semester.

5 hours per week during the 2nd semester.

1. Overview

     1.1 The material and the construction process.

     1.2 The geometric-constructive principles.

     1.3 Construction systems in wood, reinforced concrete, steel, reinforced masonry.

2. Building material: wood, stone materials, ceramic materials, bricks, binders, mortars, plasters, concrete, steel, aluminum, waterproofing sheaths, glass, ordinary and prestressed reinforced concrete, flooring , thermal insulators.

3. The composition of the construction equipment

     3.1 The external vertical closures. The walls, door and window compartments, finishing works, coatings, windows and glass walls. Moisture protection, thermal and acoustic insulation.

    3.2 The horizontal cover closures. Flat roofs: slope patterns, stratifications, water disposal systems, construction details. Pitched roofs: pitch geometry, Lombard warping, Piedmontese warping, trusses, water disposal systems, roofing, construction details. The vaulted roofs: annular barrel, sail, pavilion, cross, barrel with straw head.

   3.3. The intermediate horizontal closures. The floors: in wood, iron, brick, reinforced concrete. The design of the carpentry. The analysis of loads and the regulations for the calculation.

  3.4. Basic horizontal closures. Foundation structures, soil and permissible pressures, continuous foundations, discontinuous foundations, indirect foundations. The design of the carpentry. The analysis of loads and the regulations for the calculation. Protection from moisture.

  3.5 The internal vertical partitions. Fixed and mobile partitions, equipped walls, finishing works, internal doors and windows.

  3.6 Elements of vertical communication. The external stairs: frontal, parallel, with curved ramps. The internal stairs: straight, core, pit, pincer, circular, elliptical. The design of the stairs, the offset of the steps, the supporting structure.

OTHER ACTIVITIES: the course includes various seminars and educational visits.

RELEVANCE OF TEACHING WITH THE OBJECTIVES OF THE 2030 AGENDA: Urbanization is one of the most significant developments of the 21st century. More than half of the world's population lives in cities, with estimates of up to 70 percent by 2050. Cities, therefore, are the engine of local and national economies and represent the hub of well-being. More than 80 percent of global economic activity is concentrated in urban centers, which however have an enormous ecological footprint: they only occupy about 3 percent of the earth's surface, but consume three-quarters of global resources and are responsible for 75 percent of carbon emissions. gas. The creation of building products with different intended uses, from residential to commercial, from industrial to hospital, as well as structural and infrastructural works, therefore, must have as its objective the reduction of the per capita pollution produced by cities, in particular with regards to air quality and waste management linked to the construction and useful life of newly built and/or existing buildings. 

The teaching "ARCHITETTURA TECNICA I" integrates perfectly into the application scope of objective 11 of the 2030 Agenda, as it aims to provide the basis from which to start for the understanding not only of the simple building or structural organism in the mere meaning of the term but of insertion of the same into existing urbanized contexts in order to make them safe, resilient and sustainable for future generations. 

The creation of new works, all closely linked to the field of technical architecture, must always guarantee the protection of the existing cultural and natural heritage, with a view to guaranteeing a better quality of life in urbanized centres, making them participatory, integrated and sustainable aggregates above all from a construction point of view, also in full compliance with the principles of the Minimum Environmental Criteria (CAM, Ministerial Decree 23 June 2022) and the DNSH (Do Not Significant Harm, Regulation (EU) 2020/852) in force regarding the construction of new works , of whatever nature and type they are.

E. Mandolesi, Edilizia, Vol. I, II, III, IV, Torino, UTET,1991.

S. I. Colombini, Lezioni di Architettura Tecnica, Catania, IDAU, 1979.

L. Caleca, Architettura Tecnica, Palermo, FLACCOVIO EDITORE, 1992.

S. Cascone, Finestre e pareti vetrate, Roma, GANGEMI EDITORE, 1996.

E. Dassori, R. Morbiducci, Costruire l'architettura, BEMA, 2011.

 - Building materials.

- Stone materials: classification, types of workmanship.

- Direct and indirect foundations, examples of types.

- Construction details of vertical enclosures - ground attachment systems.

- Construction details of horizontal roof enclosures.

- Construction details of horizontal base enclosures.

- Staircase geometry and construction.

- Analysis of loads on floors.

- Timber constructions.

- Reinforced masonry constructions.

- Types of floors (concrete-brick, prefabricated, etc.).

- Transparent building envelope.

- Waterproofing systems and application examples on flat/pitched roofs.

- External insulation systems and application examples.

- Insulation systems and application examples on horizontal base/vertical/roof enclosures.

- Construction of load-bearing steel and reinforced concrete skeletons.

- BIM in project implementation and the construction industry.

- Extraction of graphic and accounting documents from the Revit model.