Three themes: housing at Sestri Levante, a farm-stay to recover, a residential implementation plan
What the track asks
A sealed envelope with three alternative practical-exam themes (Section A, first 2014 session), each with existing-state cartography and a first written test justifying the choices and the sizing. THEME 1 — on a buildable lot owned by the Municipality of Sestri Levante, in the valley of the Gromolo stream, a residential building within a maximum volume of 2,405 cubic metres: no more than three storeys above ground plus a possible non-residential basement, a pitched roof and at least two different dwelling types, accounting for the given no-build constraints (cemetery buffer and river buffer) and addressing accessibility, visitability and adaptability under Ministerial Decree 236/89. THEME 2 — the recovery of a cluster of unremarkable rural buildings in open countryside at Amelia, Forano locality (a PRG agricultural zone): today stores and barns with a single two-storey rural dwelling, to be turned into a family-run farm-stay by defining the hospitality and social spaces (restaurant, kitchen, living room, bar, outdoor common spaces and the manager's flat), with modest volume increases and altered openings. THEME 3 — in a peripheral area of a small Piedmont municipality, the design of a vacant residential (and compatible-use) area through a privately-initiated executive urban plan: define uses, building type, the location of planning standards and the road layout, respecting the assigned parameters (territorial index 0.60, coverage ratio 0.50, maximum height 10.50 m, standard 25 sqm/inhabitant) and the obligation to continue the pedestrian route to the north. Deliverables: from the building's 1:100 plans and sections to the 1:500/1:400 site-volume plan and the implementation-plan scheme, depending on the theme.
Required drawings
They vary by theme. Theme 1: the built area on a 1:500 site plan with internal roads, parking, greenery and water disposal; at least one 1:100 section and the typical-dwelling plans 1:100. Theme 2: a 1:400 site-volume plan with possible sketches and sections; plans of all floors with dimensions and furniture; sections and elevations 1:200; useful details. Theme 3: a 1:500 site-volume plan with possible sections and 1:500 indicative building schemes. For all, a first written test justifying the sizing, the building type, the structural system, the materials and the barrier-free measures.
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