Objectives and competences
- to understand the importance of developing and designing urban structures;
- to comprehend the interdependence between urban structures and architectural typologies;
- to understand the need to constantly adapt the public open space to the new development needs of the city;
- to be able to define the relationship between functionality and design solutions in the development of new urban structures;
- to be able to conceptualise architectural or urban intervention, aimed at improving living conditions within settlements;
- Understand the impact of transportation and green infrastructure on urban form and environmental quality.
Content (Syllabus outline)
- Characteristics of European city development through historical, spatial, and social layers
- Identification of city premises; open, transitional, enclosed, informal, infrastructural
- City spaces in in the context of compact and dispersed urban structure;
- Urban spaces - transport infrastructure: the role of mobility networks in urban sprawl, spatial degradation and potential of urban space;
- City spaces - design: the role of the design of the built city edge in the condensed and dispersed city;
- Urban spaces: public open space in a compact and dispersed city;
- Sustainable approaches to urban space: green infrastructure, ecological interventions, microclimatic strategies
- Reprogramming urban space as a tool for enhancing the quality of life
Learning and teaching methods
The programme will be undertaken in cooperation with visiting professors and lecturers and a seminary work, whose themes will be analysis of characteristics of settlement development and forecasting future development processes
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
- use knowledge to identify the need to design new urban spaces;
- summarize the basic laws of the formation of the urban space of a congested and dispersed city with architectural typologies and infrastructure;
- to design innovative project solutions in the establishment and development of new city spaces;
- to make presentations for the public and the profession in the domain of specific urban intervention (which increases the quality of living).
Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes
- use knowledge to identify development processes of urban structures and potentials for the establishment of diverse urban spaces;
- identifying key factors in the urban development of a sustainable city;
- summarise key principles in the formation of urban space (both compact and dispersed), along with architectural typologies and infrastructure;
- design innovative and sustainable project solutions for the development of new urban spaces;
- develop concepts of urban interventions aimed at improving living conditions and enhancing environmental quality.
Readings
Benevolo,L. (2004), Mesto v zgodovini Evrope, CF*, Ljubljana, https://plus.cobiss.net/cobiss/si/sl/bib/ktfmb+ukm/215806720
Lynch, K. (2010), Podoba mesta, Goga, Novo mesto, https://plus.cobiss.net/cobiss/si/sl/bib/ktfmb/252932096
O urbanizmu: Kaj se dogaja s sodobnim mestom? (zbornik) (2007), Krtina, Ljubljana https://plus.cobiss.net/cobiss/si/sl/bib/ktfmb+ukm/231387392
Additional information on implementation and assessment Three assignments (three seminar papers; upon successful completion of all assignments, the written (project-based) part of the exam is recognized as passed)
