44625 - Natural and Artificial Materials

Academic Year 2010/2011

  • Docente: Marco Boscolo
  • Credits: 3
  • SSD: ICAR/12
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Cesena
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Architecture and building process (cod. 0880)

Course contents

The  industrialization of construction and the development context of the art have introduced new materials and innovative uses permitted as its construction history, giving rise to different applications.  Today, new materials and new technologies, combined with the recovery of tradition in the evolved and updated, providing a formidable vocabulary of opportunity for the designer of detail. 
The materials will be treated:  wood; stones; ceramic products; steel; glass; mortars, concrete and reinforced concrete; raw land; thermal insulation and waterproofing.

Readings/Bibliography

AA.VV., Quaderni del Manuale di progettazione edilizia - I materiali naturali, Ulrico Hoepli Editore, Milano 2003; AA.VV., Quaderni del Manuale di progettazione edilizia - I materiali sintetici, Ulrico Hoepli Editore, Milano 2003; Digital documents on  http://www.marcoboscolo.it/moodle/course/view.php?id=96

Teaching methods

During the lectures will address the issues that characterize the natural and artificial materials, their technological and architectural applications.

Assessment methods

The test will be write conducted on the program.

Teaching tools

e-learning web http://www.marcoboscolo.it/moodle/course/view.php?id=96

Links to further information

http://www.marcoboscolo.it/moodle/course/view.php?id=96

Office hours

See the website of Marco Boscolo