Learning objectives
Assuming that students are already familiar with the structural and construction characteristics of historical buildings and of the theories and techniques of architectural restoration, the teaching aim of the workshop is to deepen students’ understanding of the methods of historical research, of the application of restoration methods, of conservation and consolidation through analysis and planning as applied to an actual building.
The workshop also aims to provide students with the knowledge and documentation required to prepare their degree dissertation.
Prerequisites
Students must have attended the restoration workshop during the first year of the advanced degree.
Course unit content
The activity of the workshop consists in the analysis of a building or historic site chosen by the students, identifying its history, its state of deterioration, state of instability and planning an architectural intervention for its conservation or reutilization or in any case a study for its redevelopment.
The workshop is structured around traditional classroom-based lessons, activities of analysis, surveying and planning, individual revisions and collective presentation-revisions.
Full programme
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Bibliography
- “Linee guida per la valutazione e la riduzione del rischio sismico del patrimonio culturale” (scaricabile dal sito del Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali: http://www.beniculturali.it/mibac/export/MiBAC/sito-MiBAC/Contenuti/Avvisi/visualizza_asset.html_1141304737.html)
- AA.VV., Trattato sul consolidamento, Mancosu Editore, 2008.
- Giuriani Ezio, Consolidamento Edifici Storici, Utet Tecnico, 2012, ISBN: 9788859807636
- G. Tampone, M. Mannucci, N. Macchioni, Strutture di legno: Cultura, conservazione, restauro, Edizioni De Lettera, Milano 2002.
- M. Como, Statica delle costruzioni storiche in muratura. Aracne, luglio 2010.
- E. Mandelli, I Palazzi del Rinascimento, Alinea, Firenze, 1989
- C. Mezzetti (a cura di), La rappresentazione dell'architettura: storia, metodi, immagini, Edizioni Kappa, Roma, 2000.
- G. Cento, Rilievo edilizio architettonico, Vitali e Ghianda, Genova, 1959.
- J. P. Saint Aubin, Il rilievo e la rappresentazione dell'architettura, Bergamo 1999.
More didactic material can be found in the course’s website.
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons
The course includes a number of classroom-based lessons with the aim of illustrating practical techniques and methods relating to historical analysis and planning of restoration.
Students are required to attend these lessons in order for their compulsory attendance of the workshop to be recognized.
Activities of analysis, surveying and planning
Students, in groups of two/three/four, are required to choose a dissertation supervisor and one of the proposed topics. If an existing building is chosen the student must produce a geometric survey, a historical study, a survey of the construction system and structural elements, an analysis of phenomena of deterioration and instability of the walls and finishing works (plaster, floors, fixtures, etc.) and the conservation project.
The collective presentations and handing in of the final collective revision, which will take place in June, of the final project (as a rough guide five A1 boards and an A4 binder containing historical notes, an illustrative report of the project, a report on the state of deterioration and an initial report on its stability, excluding structural details) constitute proof of the work completed that is necessary for attendance of the workshop to be recognized.
The groups may carry out revisions with individual teachers in order to present the work completed and may request specific indications concerning the various surveying, planning and structural analysis stages. As a rule each group has five revisions at its disposal (three concerning the main discipline and two for the module), in addition to the compulsory collective presentation-revisions.
Attendance and participation in the workshop activities is attested to by students’ attendance of the classroom lessons (at least 70% of the lessons), their presence at the presentation-revisions and their handing in of the project not later than the end of teaching activities in June.
Assessment methods and criteria
Attendance and participation in the workshop activities is attested to by students’ attendance of the classroom lessons (at least 70% of the lessons), their presence at the presentation-revisions and their handing in of the project not later than the end of teaching activities in June.
Other information
As for all the laboratories, attending the courses is compulsory.
