The document discusses challenges facing cities and the built environment due to population growth, climate change, and resource constraints. It suggests that new design approaches are needed that incorporate principles of nature, including lightness, efficiency, and connectivity. The Master's program described aims to teach generative and parametric design techniques to explore bio-inspired and context-aware designs, with workshops on material systems, algorithmic design, and performative skins. The goal is to establish design rules that shift from objects to relationships to create adaptive, sustainable architectures.

1. IN BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH
LOOKING FOR
NEW ECOLOGIES OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
marialuisa palumbo - INARCH MASTER OF DIGITAL ARCHITECTURE

3. Edunia
is a Plantimal

4. Human or
Posthuman?

6. Brain Gate
System

8. Borders
Are
Growing

10. Earth is limited

12. Climate Change is a Reality

13. Tokyo, Japan

14. Urban Millennium
“Sometime in the next year, a woman will give birth in
the Lagos slum of Ajegunle... The exact event is
unimportant and it will pass entirely unnoticed.
Nonetheless it will constitute a watershed in human
history, comparable to the Neolithic or Industrial
revolutions. For the first time the urban population of
the earth will outnumber the rural.”
Mike Davis, Planet of Slums, 2006

16. UN-Habitat, Understanding Slums, 2003

17. The Question Concerning Cities

19. More than half of the human
population now lives in cities,
which account for 75% of global
energy consumption and 80%
of greenhouse emissions.

21. Up to the 40% of the
ecological footprint of a city is
due to its food system
(transport, packaging, storing
and waste disposal).

24. Transmission lines

27. Landfill

28. Learning From Nature

29. Lightness
(Resources Economy >
Form follows Energy Flows)

30. Efficiency
(High Performances +
Resources Economy +
Zero Waste)

31. Connectivity
(net existence >
closed-loop system)

32. Master in
Emerging
Tecnologies

33. Venustas Utilitas Firmitas
>>>
Form Function Structure
>>
Constructive System +
MorphoGenesis
>
Form Finding or Finding Form?

36. ParaGenLab
Design studio lead by Fernando Rial

38. - Theory
- Mapping
- Parametric and Generative Design Lab:
Rhinoceros + Grasshopper
- Scripting: Galapagos+Phython
- Parametric Modeling : Revit
- Rendering: 3D Studio MAX
- Animations: Photoshop+Premiere+After Effects
- Video Communication
- Digital Fabrication
Workshops:
1. Material system & generative design: FROM CONTEXT
NEUTRAL TO CONTEXT-AWARE DESIGN
2. Algorithmic design & bio-morphologies lab:
EXPLORING BIO_MIMICRY
3. Performative Skin lab: FORM FOLLOWS ENERGY FLOWS

39. Stafano Campisi, Fabio Rebollini

41. “Traditional CAD products create lines, arcs,
circles and a great variety of geometrical
objects... A new generation of parametric
design systems establishes models defined by
a collection of constrained relationship between
objects...
The design shifts from drawing surfaces to
setting up rules of interdependency
-genotypes- leading to potential differentiation
-phenotypes-.”
Marco Vannucci_ Adams Kara Taylor

50. Nadia Avezzano_Carlotta Mannucci_Simona Tomasello

64. Marika Costanzo, Andrea Dochita, Alessandro Fisalli

80. Master in
Sustainable
Architectures

82. Productive Residence
Design Studio lead by 2A+P/A

86. - Theory
- Environmental Design Principles
- CFD Computational Fluid Dynamics > Ecotect +
ENVImet + WinAir
- Design of Photovoltaic Systems
- Sustainable Water Management
- Passive systems for energy efficiency
- Active Systems for Energy Efficiency and
Production
- LCA Life Cycle Assessment
- Innovation in Building Technology and Construction
- Natural and Artificial Lighting
- Parametric Modeling > Revit
- Economic Evaluation
- Design Studio

87. “By aesthetic, I mean responsive to the
pattern which connects”
Gregory Bateson, Mind and Nature, 1979

88. Mario Chiurazzi, Raimondo Ciocchi

152. Thank you!