Three themes: a shop-and-housing block, a food market, a brewery in a harbour warehouse
What the track asks
A sealed envelope with three alternative practical-exam themes (Section A, November 2013 session), each with existing-state drawings and a short written report. THEME 1 — in the urban centre of a western-Ligurian town, a public detailed plan sets an organic intervention unit on a lot of about 1,000 sqm: design a building with retail on the ground floor and housing above (usable area up to 1,700 sqm, eaves height no higher than the existing building on via Fiume), after demolishing the internal buildings, with given alignments, the public use of the pedestrian areas, a public portico and an inner garden-square, basement parking at the legal minimum, compliance with energy saving and barrier-free rules, and the use of passive heating and renewables. THEME 2 — a new building for a small food market with an attached bar/café, on a flat lot facing a pedestrian square in the Po valley: eaves height 9 m, maximum gross buildable area 950 sqm, with an accessibility check. THEME 3 — a small brewery in Genoa's historic centre, in a former harbour warehouse within a building listed under the Cultural Heritage and Landscape Code (Legislative Decree 42/2004): arrange the production cycle (possibly on view), the tasting and serving spaces, a light refreshment service and the toilets, with a mezzanine of at most 140 sqm, working on a room of thick stone walls, pillars and vaults, without ground insulation or systems, and creating a boiler room reached directly from outside. Deliverables: a 1:200/1:100 building design with an arranged site plan, dimensioned plans, elevations and sections, a 1:50/1:20 construction detail, a 1:20 bathroom plan and an accessibility check.
Required drawings
They vary by theme. Theme 1: a 1:200 site plan with external works; dimensioned plans 1:100/1:200; at least one elevation and one section 1:100/1:200; at least one construction detail 1:50/1:20. Theme 2: a 1:200 building design with an arranged site plan, plans with functions and vertical circulation, sections, elevations and a dimensioned facade-finish detail, with an accessibility check; axonometric or perspective sketches. Theme 3: a 1:100 design with functions, areas and heights; a 1:20 bathroom plan; a schematic furniture plan; possible sections; plans/sketches of the proposed finishes. For all, a short report (max two pages) on criteria, structural type, energy efficiency, systems technologies and materials.
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