foundation of all correct, sustainable construction. Through the exercise of design, the course will seek to provide the theoretical and practical elements needed, adopting an architectural application focused on studying interactions between the building and environment, and the building and context. The project area chosen for design practice is in Florence's main city park, the Cascine. This choice was made intentionally to develop the specific qualities that weave na-
ture and artifice, green space and the city fabric. The question that the design proposals are asked to answer entails developing a design that can make this park livable and useable without altering the balance with the natural context that green areas always implicitly have. In other words, it is about making sustainable (and therefore compatible with human activities) the architecture and the natural context in which it is set.
The course is organized with an "onthe-job" approach, making the educational process dynamic and engaging with fewer lectures and more application and seminar work. The set of activities, spread over a semester, will take place mainly in the classroom and involve planning and developing a final project.
DIDA DIPARTIMNTO DI ARCHITETTURA FIRENZE
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