SOL_CRIT03 — Join us for our second Crit Moment.
On Monday 18 May from 09:00, our students will present the next stage of their creative process. Moment 3 focuses on **BODY and SKIN**.
Together, we will delve deeply into construction and detailing, and explore how these transform the built environment into an architectural space and its atmosphere.
We’re delighted to be joined by Camilla De Camilli @camilladecamilli Sarah Becchio and Paolo Borghino from @errantearchitetture — friends we admire greatly, and marvellous architects strongly committed to experimentation.
We look forward to welcoming you.
#architecture #design #education #event torino
SOL_CRIT03 — Join us for our second Crit Moment.
On Monday 18 May from 09:00, our students will present the next stage of their creative process. Moment 3 focuses on **BODY and SKIN**.
Together, we will delve deeply into construction and detailing, and explore how these transform the built environment into an architectural space and its atmosphere.
We’re delighted to be joined by Camilla De Camilli @camilladecamilli Sarah Becchio and Paolo Borghino from @errantearchitetture — friends we admire greatly, and marvellous architects strongly committed to experimentation.
We look forward to welcoming you.
#architecture #design #education #event torino
SOL_CRIT03 — Join us for our second Crit Moment.
On Monday 18 May from 09:00, our students will present the next stage of their creative process. Moment 3 focuses on **BODY and SKIN**.
Together, we will delve deeply into construction and detailing, and explore how these transform the built environment into an architectural space and its atmosphere.
We’re delighted to be joined by Camilla De Camilli @camilladecamilli Sarah Becchio and Paolo Borghino from @errantearchitetture — friends we admire greatly, and marvellous architects strongly committed to experimentation.
We look forward to welcoming you.
#architecture #design #education #event torino
SOL_CRIT02 — Join us for our second Crit Moment.
On Monday 20 April from 09:00, our students will present the next stage of their creative process. Moment 2 focuses on **STRATEGY**.
Together, we’ll explore how insights gathered during the first observation phase are refined and applied to the selected venues.
We’re delighted to be joined by Alberto Calderoni @albrt_cldrn and Alberto Lessan @albertolessan — two outstanding architects from a remarkable generation of contemporary Italian practice.
We look forward to welcoming you.
#architecture #design #education #event torino
SOL_CRIT02 — Join us for our second Crit Moment.
On Monday 20 April from 09:00, our students will present the next stage of their creative process. Moment 2 focuses on **STRATEGY**.
Together, we’ll explore how insights gathered during the first observation phase are refined and applied to the selected venues.
We’re delighted to be joined by Alberto Calderoni @albrt_cldrn and Alberto Lessan @albertolessan — two outstanding architects from a remarkable generation of contemporary Italian practice.
We look forward to welcoming you.
#architecture #design #education #event torino
SOL_CRIT02 — Join us for our second Crit Moment.
On Monday 20 April from 09:00, our students will present the next stage of their creative process. Moment 2 focuses on **STRATEGY**.
Together, we’ll explore how insights gathered during the first observation phase are refined and applied to the selected venues.
We’re delighted to be joined by Alberto Calderoni @albrt_cldrn and Alberto Lessan @albertolessan — two outstanding architects from a remarkable generation of contemporary Italian practice.
We look forward to welcoming you.
#architecture #design #education #event torino
SOL_CRIT01 — Join us for the first Crit Moment!
On Monday 16.03 from 08:30, we will review the first outcomes of the *As Found* process. Our students will present the discoveries they have made across the six venues they have been exploring.
The day will also feature a series of focused studies on precedents. Each group will present two key references, sharing the insights and knowledge they have drawn from them.
This Moment marks the close of our first research phase and launches our students into the second part of the semester, where the design process begins.
Francesca Frassoldati (Associate Professor and Coordinator of @interfaces_lab ) will be our invited guest in this journey.
We look forward to it.
#architecture #design #education #event #torino
SOL Everyone’s life.
Everyday life around architecture is our pivot.
We ask students to wear the scientist’s suit — rigorous, analytical, precise — while also drawing confidently on what is already rooted within them. Their own histories, cultures and lived experiences are not extras; they are assets.
When brought into the design process, personal experience becomes a powerful tool — enriching architecture and allowing each project to be shaped by the depth and authenticity of real life.
Picture: anonymous from the movie set ‘Young Cassidy’
#everyday #technology #architecture #education #polito
SOL Q&A
This series of questions — and many more besides — is fundamental.
Our aim is that, by the end of the course, students are ready to pack their rucksack with new knowledge and fresh insight. Technical skills, certainly — but also the kind of understanding that shapes everyday life.
#life #architecture #education #school #learning
SOL Contexts & Letters
Each group of students will be assigned a Context and a Letter.
We have devised a series of hypothetical scenarios for you: imagined clients set against real contexts, each defined by precise physical and sociological characteristics.
The letters will act as your design brief. They offer cues and themes for reflection, voicing clients’ ambitions, aspirations and needs — and challenging students to respond with clarity, imagination and purpose.
#architecture #letter #flw #torino #polito
SOL will not walk alone.
Our journey begins by exploring meaningful architectural themes through the lens of selected precedents. These case studies are not simply examples — they are companions. They ground our thinking, nurture curiosity, and inspire the future decisions our students will make as designers.
Among the six categories of precedents, MOVEMENT AND CIRCULATION foregrounds a crucial question: how does space choreograph the flow of bodies?
At the Penguin Pool in London, designed by Berthold Lubetkin @berthold_lubetkin and Tecton, the classical grandeur of a Caesar-like stair is reimagined as two elegant, interwoven ramps. A simple daily routine — swimming and returning to rest — becomes a carefully staged public spectacle.
Yet the project also reveals architecture’s limits. The expressive concrete forms, celebrated for their formal daring, gradually proved misaligned with the penguins’ real needs. Architecture cannot rely on spectacle alone; it must ultimately serve comfort, behavior, and well-being.
Closed after decades of use, the pool remains at the center of an ongoing debate about preservation and demolition — a powerful reminder that movement is not only visual, but lived.
Picture credits: Fredrick William Bond
#architecture #coreography #movement #animals #london
SOL will not walk alone.
Our journey begins by exploring meaningful architectural themes through the lens of selected precedents. These case studies are not simply examples — they are companions. They ground our thinking, nurture curiosity, and inspire the future decisions our students will make as designers.
Among the six categories of precedents, MULTIPLE USES frames architecture as a living container — a space where diverse rhythms of life intersect, overlap, and coexist.
In Antwerp, DVVT @devyldervincktaillieu@architectenjdviv@jotaillieuarchitecten crafted a compact yet layered world where different forms of human life unfold side by side, seamlessly interwoven with unexpected pockets of nature.
This deliberate coexistence generates a quiet harmony, expressed through meticulous detailing and the intelligent use of every corner. The project reveals how even the most anonymous urban plot can become dense with meaning, richness, and spatial generosity.
Picture credits: Filip Dujardin @filipdujardin
#inventiveness #house #life #architecture #polito
