The state exam at Chieti-Pescara

A single envelope with three alternative six-hour design themes, each followed by a written technical report on compositional, structural, distributive and technological choices. THEME 1 — a three-storey terraced single-family house on a 5.20 × 15.60 m urban lot, built against two existing identical terraced houses, accessed from the street on the short side with a garden and fountain at the rear; max height 12 m. THEME 2 — a single-storey detached villa on a 35.50 × 17.76 m suburban lot: 30% coverage ratio, 0.7 cum/sqm index, 3 m from boundaries and 10 m from the road, max height 6 m with a pitched roof, one tree per 10 sqm of covered area, garden, drive, parking for two cars, fence, fountain and sculpture. THEME 3 — a small town hall (10 × 24 m lot, 3 storeys, max 16 m, flat roof, mandatory portico facing the square) and a 24 × 24 m pedestrian square: full civic programme (council chamber, offices, registry, archive, public desks and toilets, stairs and lifts) plus square design (trees, flowerbeds, benches, fountain, monument). All three require the dimensioned 1:20 floor-to-sky section with a materials-and-technologies legend.

An envelope with two alternative six-hour design themes, each with a written technical report on compositional, structural, distributive and technological choices. THEME 1 — a single-storey two-family detached villa with an open internal courtyard on a 38.50 × 38.50 m suburban lot: 10 m from boundaries and road, max height 7 m (roof included) with a pitched roof, one tree per 10 sqm of covered area, garden, drive, parking for at least two cars, fence, fountain and sculpture. THEME 2 — a detached multi-family block of three storeys plus a ground-floor pilotis level, on a 31.00 × 28.60 m suburban lot: a pilotis parking level at grade, at least two apartments per upper floor of differing sizes, an accessible and walkable flat roof, max height 15 m, with a rear garden and fence. Both require the dimensioned 1:20 floor-to-sky section with a materials, structure and technologies legend.

The session offered three alternative themes. THEME A — a residence serving a farming family of four on a 25,220 sqm olive-grove estate in Abruzzo, designed under art. 61 of Regional Law 58/2023: 5,000 sqm intervention lot, 0.02 cum/sqm index up to 800 cum, max height 7.5 m, 10 m from boundaries; Mediterranean climate, south-facing solar gains and energy self-sufficiency. THEME B — an exhibition building for local craft products: 500 sqm gross on two levels, max height 10 m, on a 6,400 sqm lot with public green and a 36-space car park. THEME C — a media library and multi-purpose space in a small Abruzzo town, on a 12 m wide infill lot between two blind buildings, facing a square with a church façade as its backdrop: two-level programme (media library, 40-seat conference hall, a café usable from outside; offices and a start-up space upstairs), with energy-environmental criteria and full accessibility. All three themes require the percentage breakdown of works according to the UNI 8290 classification.

An envelope with three alternative six-hour design themes and a linked first written test (technical report on design and construction choices). THEME I — a three-storey retail building on a roughly 7 m wide residual urban lot between two existing buildings of different heights (10 m and 4 m); accessibility for people with motor disabilities is explicitly required. THEME II — adaptive reuse: on a suburban lot of about 37 × 28 m with three existing concrete structures, design three temporary dwellings with shared spaces (kitchen and living, about 110 sqm total) reusing the existing volume and adding a solar greenhouse, with new volumes in brick and/or reinforced concrete and external works. THEME III — an urban-planning theme: an implementation district of Pescara's master plan (territorial index 1.00 cum/sqm, additional social-housing volume, max height 16.80 m), with road widenings, a new road link and continuous sustainable mobility (cycle paths) between public facilities; required outputs include a 1:1000 project plan, a 1:500 urban section and typological/aggregation schemes of the building types.