FIRST LEVEL SPECIALIZING MASTER IN

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN FOR ARCHITECTURE

Entry exam for candidates

time: 4 hours

Introduction to the Master

In the current survey of development in the building branch on a global
scale the professional figure of the planner (whether an architect or a
designer) is evolving to face competently projects that are characterized
by three phenomena that are quickly increasing

1. Project Globalization
New cities and settlements made of big buildings developed in a very
short time are coming up and growing in the Middle East, in Eastern
Europe, in South-Eastern Asia as well as in China and India.
Planners, builders and building components producers belonging to
different countries and to unhomogeneous cultures intervene in these
works.
In this case a globalization of the sector can be witnessed both in its
cultural aspects and in its project and development and it needs a
language and planning technology sharing about which a specific training
must be formulated.

2. Reconversion of Buidings
A second evolving field in is the one of the reconversion of buildings
(especially those of the services sector) that are transformed to be used
for new functions or to receive a new consignee. These buildings can be
partially or completely stripped of their “skin” and only their structure can
be preserved. The coating and all the removable elements (both interior
and exterior) can be substituted in order to give a new shape both to the
building aesthetics and to its function. It is an effective system both in
terms of carrying out time and costs and it requires special design and
building solutions that must be developed and presuppose a knowledge in
mass production and in industrial processes that are typical of scale
economics.

3. Temporariness
Another sphere that is strongly developing is the branch of events that are
characterized by their temporariness: an example are the international
expositions that have a duration that can vary from some days to some
months and that require specific types of building. The transport, the
adaptability to various contexts, the carrying out, the abandonment and
the reuse are some of the characteristics that must be taken into
consideration by the planner who should in particular consider the
different contexts in which the temporary structures can be used by
getting analogies from design for assembly and/or design for
disassembly (to which industrial design refers)

1. General Question

Starting form the subject number 1 that is mentioned above please

supplement the description (by using also some examples) and highlight
the relevant project spheres that take advantage from the application of a
project approach that is typical of industrial design. This means putting
into connection the problems of the construction sector (from the project
to the yard) with the project competences that are typical of industrial
design, that has always been oriented to solve mass production problems,
standardization, compatibility of components and systems, assembly, etc.

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2. Project Question

Many different products are used in the construction field:

A. finished built-in products that integrate with buildings, typically building

components and plant systems;

B. consumer electronic products and functional products (building

automation, lighting systems, ect.);
C. mass building products, that is temporary structures and modular
building solutions.

Please choose an existing product from the product type B and describe
which are the innovation possibilities for this product from the point of
view of design, carrying out, maintenance, etc. with renard to the
development survey described above. The candidate can make use of
examples of buildings, products and best practices. The text can be
supplemented by sketches and graphic plans.

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