OVERVIEW

The course provides students with the knowledge and tools necessary to carry out the main activities related to the internal layout of sailing and motor boats.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The aim of this workshop is to further delve into the topic of nautical furnishings. Students will begin by analyzing shapes and materials, as well as contemporary and past styles, and then move on to exploring the various construction techniques.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The detailed goals of this module range by level, from theory to application:
- Knowing the characteristics of the type of vessel analyzed;
- Acquisition of an adequate project analysis methodology;
- Applying the above methodology to specific cases;
- Being able to concisely describe and represent project contents.

By the end of this module, students are expected to show knowledge of project development and communication tools such as:
- defining targets and reference scenarios;
- research and analysis;
- conception;
- elaboration and editing of drawings;
- using sketches, technical drawings and models for project development;
- elaborating final project drawings.

PREREQUISITES

There are no specific prerequisites required to tackle the contents of the course.

TEACHING METHODS

The teaching includes frontal lessons alternating with collective discussions on the occasion of the periodic deliveries of group exercises. The collective tests, which can be considered partial deliveries of the final theme, have a specific theme each time identified by formats and layouts provided by the teaching staff, and range from the reading of existing projects to the preparation of an ad hoc space, through the creation of moodboards and the selection of modern and contemporary designer furniture. The comparison between teacher and student represents an important moment of verification of the knowledge acquired.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Speaking of living, an orientation seems to be emerging in the contemporary panorama that makes the effectiveness of clear boundary lines between the fields of Architecture, Interiors and Design labile. The phenomenon has to do on the one hand with the need to intervene from the inside, with a trans-scale and inclusive logic, on spaces and with the availability of procedures attributable to words such as temporariness, flexibility, adaptability and recycling, in harmony with the propensity towards versatile, fluid and porous solutions (but also multitasking, intergenerational, on demand).

The update (or transition) concerns both habitable spaces and the objects that furnish them: two orders of magnitudes that were distinct in the past by convention, united today by experiments attributable to the themes of hybridization and mobility, the latter a characteristic of contemporaneity with all that ensues, including the transportability of things (and furnishings) as well as their free circulation in interiors (free flow). With the consistency entrusted to materials once considered ephemeral, inside and outside houses (sheet metal, cardboard, wood, fabric), between microarchitecture and macrodesign.

The reflections underlying the course begin on these premises, which start from the dissolution of the typology of rooms to arrive at new categories of furnishing objects in fluid and open spaces. The exercise is to make the void habitable, understood both as vacuus, and therefore a space to be filled, organized, separated, and as vagum, that is, an indeterminate place and therefore full of promises. A space that is not defined univocally (or a priori) by the way in which it is used, which can simultaneously contemplate multiple functions thanks to the objects that are designed (down to the smallest details) and placed inside it. The topics that are covered during the lessons trace a gradual path that allows students to experiment with new ideas for contemporary nautical interior design. The final test is the last piece of a mosaic formed by the previous exercises, about which precise information is given by the teaching staff.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Abalos, I. (2009). Il buon abitare. Pensare le case della modernità. Milano: Christian Marinotti Edizioni 
Coccia, E. (2021). Filosofia della casa. Lo spazio domestico e la felicità. Torino: Einaudi
Cornoldi, A. (1994). Architettura dei luoghi domestici: Il progetto del comfort. Milano: Jaca Book
De Fusco, R. (2004). Storia dell’arredamento. Dal ‘400 al ‘900. Milano: FrancoAngeli
Dardi, D.,Pasca, V. (2019). Manuale di Storia del Design. Milano: Silvana Editoriale
Forino, I. (2001). L'interno nell'interno. Una fenomenologia dell'arredamento. Firenze: Alinea
Praz, M. (2012). La filosofia dell’arredamento. Milano: Longanesi
Valenti, A. (2012). Case disperatamente contemporanee. Milano: 22 Publishing
Valenti, A. – Zignego, I. (2017). Interior Design Multitasking. Incroci tra nautica e architettura. Genova: Sagep
Vitta, M. (2008). Dell'abitare: Corpi, spazi, oggetti, immagini. Torino: Einaudi.

LESSONS

LESSONS START

https://corsi.unige.it/9274/p/studenti-orario

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

The exam consists of the presentation of the project carried out during the semester and its relative discussion in the classroom.
Each year, a different brief is proposed by the teaching staff, developed in synergy with the course Architecture of Minimal Spaces.

The final evaluation of the project consists of the verification of the papers judging their coherence with the initial inputs of the project, the correctness of the graphic restitution and the completeness with respect to the theme developed. The oral interview concludes the test by verifying the student's maturity, dialectical and expository skills, as well as interest in the discipline.

There are three exam sessions in the summer session (June, July and September) and two exam sessions in the winter session (January and February).

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Elements such as maturity in work management, thinking and design skills (choice of products, critical choice of design elements, market research, case study analysis), critical ability, mastery of language in oral presentation and in the project book, combined with good consistency in classroom participation, make up the final evaluation of the course.