Learning objectives
Knowledge and ability to understand:
At the end of the course, the student must have acquired a broad and critical view of methodologies and techniques for the restoration and reuse of historical buildings, aimed at its enhancement in relation to the existing cultural debate.
Skills:
At the end of the course of study the student must have developed the ability to identify the main criticalities and potentialities of a building or, more generally, historical site (intended as material-structural consistency, historical value and vocation for transformability) and to develop, on the basis of a critical judgment always deriving from the fundamental phase of knowledge, an organic project of restoration and conservation, with particular attention to the possible reuse of the heritage.
Autonomy of judgment:
At the end of the course and in the realization of his/her project, the student is expected to have developed the ability to critically evaluate potential and implicit constraints in the state of conservation of a site, selecting the most correct conservation and intervention techniques for the specific case , maintaining the always necessary balance between conservative issues (historical and aesthetic), but also with regard to structural safety and enhancement, through the choices of reuse. He will also have acquired the ability to interpret and evaluate the quality of any restoration project.
Communication skills:
During the course, the student will have to refine his / her own language skills in English, with particular reference to the specific technical terminology of the different courses that are part of the laboratory, in order to be able to communicate effectively and punctually their project, in the various aspects involved.
Learning ability:
The materials and techniques for the analysis and conservation of historic buildings are subject to continuous and rapid innovations. Therefore, the student must acquire the ability, once the problem to be solved has been identified, to select the most suitable tools also by evaluating options not necessarily exposed during the course, in order to keep himself constantly updated even during the future profession. He/she will also have to be able to frame its own design choices in a broader, inevitably changing cultural context.
Prerequisites
It is useful to have attended the course of Analysis and Conservation of Existing Structures (1st year of Master's Degree, Architecture and Sustainable Cities) and the course (by choice) Restoration Project. The knowledge of consolidation and structural analysis of historical buildings, as well as of the materials that compose them, are assumed to have been acquired during the course.
It is also useful to have attended the course of History of Modern Architecture and Restoration, as well as Analysis of Existing Architecture.
Knowledge of automatic drawing programs and multimedia presentations is helpful.
Course unit content
The module is included in the final synthesis laboratory in restoration and reuse of architecture, therefore the course is aimed at the reorganization, by the students, of the contents learned during the course of study and their application to a case study which can become the basis for the realization of one's final degree thesis.
The module deals in particular with the issues of conservation and reuse and is organized in a theoretical part - carried out in seminars - and a more operational part - carried out according to the laboratory methods typical of a design course.
During the course the most current methodologies for the definition of a correct restoration project will be exposed, which very often finds in the reuse the first guarantee of realization, also in relation to the existing cultural debate.
Full programme
Bibliography
M. FORSYTH, “Understanding historical building conservation”, Blackwell Publishing, 2008
The slides shown during the lectures will be uploaded on the elly platform
Teaching methods
The course is divided into a theoretical part, an operational part and a workshop.
The theoretical part, mostly concentrated in the first semester of the course, will foresee a series of lectures, of a seminar type (also with the participation of experts external to our course, professionals and teachers from other universities), aimed at deepening the topics and tools useful for defining the project for restoration and conservation, recalled and illustrated also through the exhibition of concrete case studies. These seminars will be held mainly face to face in the classroom, with live streaming via Teams for students who cannot be present in the classroom. The collective discussion of the case studies presented and the teacher / student interaction in general will be encouraged. Some seminars (which will be previously communicated to students) will be held exclusively in remote telematic mode via Teams. There are also some educational visits to construction sites and / or restoration laboratories, for which live streaming is not guaranteed for technical reasons.
For the operational part of the course, students (individually or in small groups) will have to develop the restoration project of the chosen case study by deepening the aspects related to integrated conservation through a series of ongoing revisions. The laboratory part of the teaching activity therefore will develop through the performance in the classroom of reviews on the design theme chosen by individual students. Students will have to expose the various stages of progress of their material project prepared on paper and / or digital media. There are three collective reviews during the course: for details see the reference laboratory description. The operational part will take place in the classroom in person, with live streaming via Teams, as far as possible. It will also be possible to arrange remote reviews via Teams for students who are unable to reach the teaching site.
For the part relating to the workshop, common to the various modules, please refer to the descriptive sheet of the final synthesis laboratory in restoration and reuse of architecture.
Assessment methods and criteria
There is no autonomous grade and exam for the single module. For the description of how to verify the learning of the final synthesis laboratory in restoration and reuse of architecture, please refer to the descriptive sheet of the laboratory itself.
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