Four themes: a house on the Francigena, tower ruins, a Belvedere pavilion, an urban block
What the track asks
A sealed envelope with four alternative practical-exam themes (Section A, "senior architect"). TRACK 1 — a single-family house in the hamlet of Chianni (Gambassi Terme, Florence), on a sloping lot in the historic fabric less than 300 m from the Romanesque Pieve of Santa Maria (a Via Francigena stop recorded in 988): after demolishing worthless outbuildings, a single 140 sqm dwelling above ground, 2 floors plus an optional semi-basement, max height 7.5 m, parallel to the white road to be kept, parking to the north-west, with attention to the context's typology and materials. TRACK 2 — the recovery of the ruins of a 16th-century coastal tower (referencing the Torre S. Giovanni la Pedata at Gallipoli), reading its decay and designing the consolidation and reuse of the historic structure. TRACK 3 — a temporary exhibition pavilion on the terracotta pavement of the Belvedere Franco Zeffirelli, below Piazzale Michelangelo in Florence, for a show on the history of the ancient walls: 90 sqm, max height 3.60 m, demountable and reversible, dry-assembled, without foundations, lasting three months, with visual permeability toward the city and the walls and accessibility requirements; the site must not be altered. TRACK 4 — the urban design of a residential block (a disused area fronting via Roma) through an implementation plan: an in-line building, private and public parking (850 sqm), total residential and commercial volume 2,500 cubic metres (20% commercial), max height 7.5 m, with the stages of the implementation-plan procedure and the regulatory references.
Required drawings
TRACK 1: massing plan 1:200 with accesses and greenery; floor plans 1:100; elevations and sections 1:100; one constructional detail with materials; a criteria report. TRACK 2: decay analysis, consolidation/reuse design, elevations (1:100) and detail drawings. TRACK 3: massing insertion 1:100; plans, elevations and sections 1:50; 2 details (base node and roof) 1:5/1:10; external and internal views; a report on the idea and criteria. TRACK 4: massing plan 1:500 with public/private areas and greenery; 2 environmental sections 1:200; 2 elevations of the built part 1:200; a distributive plan; context views; the implementation-plan stages and regulatory references.
Regulations this track calls into play
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