During the Laboratory the students, individually or in small groups, have to draw up a research deepening and a critical historic analysis on a subject freely chosen in a shortlist of topics, different every academic year, proposed by the teaching team.
A dedicated tutor, who leads the work program, guides the students and the groups.
In order to accomplish their deepening, the students have to work also in libraries, archives, museums, research institutes and have to visit, survey, take sketches and pictures of the studied architectures. The results of this outdoor activity are to be assembled in class through different steps of work followed by the tutor and helped by specific lessons and seminars given by the teaching team.
The students are admitted to the exam only when their research deepening is considered accomplished at the tutor’s discretion.
The research deepening and all the research materials must be recorded on a cd-rom, according to the times and the instructions given by the tutor, and the cd-rom have to be consigned to the teaching team at the moment of the examination.