Exercise 7.3—Project While the former ‘Policy’ and ‘Plan’ are related to planning practice, this exercise aims at simulating architectural practice. The purpose is the design of a new building into an extant urban landscape. Starting from his house, the student should first identify an empty plot in the surrounding streets. He should map and characterize the urban tissue (streets, plots, and block-plans of buildings) where the plot fits in. Based on the characterization of the plot structure the student should decide to maintain the plot as it is, or to divide it into smaller plots (in that case, only one plot should be considered for the next step of the exercise). The student should design a new building (volume and main facade) for that plot bearing in mind the main characteristics of its urban tissue. The exercise should be developed as homework, involving the preparation of a PowerPoint presentation with one map, one table

(urban tissue) and some sketches and photographs (new building and urban tissue).