AIMS AND CONTENT

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

Landscape design requires a multidisciplinary ability for reading and understanding the project site. The Laboratory proposes a design path that expresses cultural contents starting from the interpretation of the context at different dimensional levels and in coherence with the transformations that characterized it and with the inhabitants’ needs. The integrated module intends to give to the students a specific support in relation to the analytical and critical study of the landscape context where the project area is located. It will provide useful tools for conscious design, in particular by guiding students in the design of open spaces in connection with the urban, peri-urban and large-scale landscape context, with reference to the most current contemporary examples of landscape design.

TEACHING METHODS

Lectures on the most significant topics and 

 integrated REVIEWSof the students' works.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Methodological and applicative lessons, integrated with reviews of students' work:

ANALYSIS of the Landscape at different scales.

Retrieval and selection of data: Reading of maps, thematic maps, aerial photos, etc.(with introduction GEOPORTAL use by geomorfolab)

Analysis of landscape transformations

Relations between the historic center, the urban area and the cultivated plain

Identification of critical and strategic areas

PROJECT Themes to be developed:

Interpretation of the landscape as project content

Connections between the project area and the context: visual references, physical connections to a broader urban redevelopment system

WATER: along the river, archaeological area in the riverbed, embankments, SOIL permeability and surface water DRAINAGE.

VEGETATION and ecosystem services for a resilient city.

Participation and shared planning: needs of the inhabitants and socio-cultural aspects. Gentle mobility.

Examples of landscape projects with similar themes.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

- landscape analyses

F. Mazzino, A. Ghersi (a cura di), Per un’analisi del paesaggio, Roma 2002

F. Steiner, Costruire il paesaggio. Un approccio ecologico alla pianificazione, Milano 2004

To collect data:

http://geoportal.regione.liguria.it/

http://geomorfolab.arch.unige.it/

http://www.pianidibacino.ambienteinliguria.it/

- visual analyses

C. Sitte, L’arte di costruire le città, (1889), Jaca Book, Milano 1981

G. Cullen, Il paesaggio urbano. Morfologia e progettazione, Calderini, Bologna 1976

K. Lynch, L’immagine della città, (1960) Marsilio, Venezia 1964

- History of Landscape Architecture

A. Maniglio Calcagno, Architettura del paesaggio. Evoluzione storica, Bologna 1980

-landscape design and examples of students' works 

A. Ghersi, M. Signorastri (a cura di), Nuovi paesaggi per Savona e Albenga, Firenze 2011

F. Balletti, A. Ghersi, Paesaggio urbano tra residui e risorse, Milano 2014

F. Mazzino, P. Burlando, Paesaggi ritrovati. Esperienze di architettura del paesaggio, The Plan, Bologna 2016

MAIN REFERENCES

AAVV, Contemporary landscape architecture, Daab, Cologne, New York, London 2008

N. Baumeister, New Landscape Architecture, Braun, Berlino 2007

A. Calcagno Maniglio, Architettura del paesaggio Evoluzione storica, Calderini, Bologna 1983.

I. Cortesi, Il parco pubblico Paesaggi 1985-2000, F. Motta, Milano 2000.

V. McLeod, Dettagli di architettura del paesaggio, Logos, Modena 2008.

G. Oneto, Manuale di Architettura del Paesaggio, Elemond, Milano 1991.

F. Zagari, Manuale di progettazione dei giardini, Mancosu, Roma 2009.

MAIN SPECIALIZED MAGAZINES

Acer (+ Folia di Acer), Architettura del Paesaggio, Garten+Landschaft, Landscape Architecture, Landscape design, Kerb, ‘Scape, Topos

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

MANUEL GAUSA NAVARRO (President)

ADRIANA GHERSI (President Substitute)

LESSONS

LESSONS START

https://corsi.unige.it/9915/p/studenti-orario

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Presentation of the work by the students.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

The integrated evaluation of the works will take into account the skills acquired by the students, both in terms of the ability to read and evaluate the landscape, the completeness of the indications of the urban project, and the communication skills of the project contents.