Learning objectives
Knowledge and understanding capabilities:
At the end of the course, the student will have a wide and critical view on the methods and techniques for the knowledge of historical architectural heritage and of its conservation status, as well as of the instruments for its restoration and strengthening, in connection with the current cultural debate.
Proficiency:
At the end of the course the student will be able to identify all the metrological, material, structural, pathological aspects which characterize a historical building and to assume the mas a base for the design of its restoration and strengthening.
Independent judgment:
The student will have to develop the capability of evaluating critically, also through suitable structural analyses, the conservation status of a historical building, identifying the most suitable techniques for the specific case, looking for an equilibrium between conservation, safety and functionality. Moreover, the student will be able to interpret and assess the quality of any restoration and strengthening design.
Communication skills:
During the course, the student will improve its correctness of speech, with specific reference to the technical terms of restoration, in order to communicate in an effective and precise way a restoration design.
Learning ability:
The materials and the techniques for the restoration and strengthening of historical building change continuously. Therefore the student must be able to select, once the problem has been identified, the most suitable intervention, even evaluating options not specifically explained during the course.
Prerequisites
It is also useful to have some knowledge of computer aided design (e.g. Autocad), spreadsheet (e.g. Excel) and multimedia presentaions (e.g. Powerpoint).
Course unit content
The course is organized in two modules: one, in the first semester, is focused on the analysis and conservation of existing structures, while the other one, in the second semester, deals more widely on the architectural restoration design. Both modules foresee a theoretical part and a design part, applied to a real case of historical building to be restored. The building is the same for the two modules, so that the student can apply to it the different issues of restoration.
The theoretical contents of the single modules are exposed in the specific descriptions.
The applied part foresees the restoration and strengthening design of a real historical building.
In the first period, the students will make surveys (divided in groups) on their case studies, in order to acquire the knowledge level needed to define the interventions, later designed in detail.
Full programme
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Bibliography
Suggested books:
- Rodolfo Antonucci, Restauro e recupero degli edifici a struttura in muratura. Analisi e interventi sul costruito storico, Maggioli Editore, 2012 (available in a the 2009 version at the Biblioteca di Ingegneria e Architettura, coll. ARC4 0316)
- “Linee guida per la valutazione e la riduzione del rischio sismico del patrimonio culturale” (downloadable at the sit of Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali: http://www.beniculturali.it/mibac/export/MiBAC/sito-MiBAC/Contenuti/Avvisi/visualizza_asset.html_1141304737.html)
Research books:
- AA.VV, Manuale del Restauro Architettonico, Mancosu editore, Roma 2001.
- S. Mastrodicasa, Dissesti statici delle strutture edilizie, Hoepli, Milano 1989
- A. Giuffrè, Letture sulla meccanica delle murature storiche, Roma, 1988.
- E. Benvenuto, La scienza delle costruzioni e il suo sviluppo storico, Sansoni, Firenze 1991.
- 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.
More didactic material (AVAILABLE ON THE COURSE’S WEB SITE):
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Teaching methods
The course is composed of traditional lectures (tought class), also with Powerpoint presentations, and reviews.
During the course, also some seminars with external lecturers will be held, to inspect more deeply specific issues.
For the applied part, the students will be divided in groups (2 to 4 people). Each group will develop a restoration and strengthening design on a real historical building and will be followed by the teachers with periodic reviews. The reviews are made in groups, on printed material prepared by the students.
Moreover, during the course there will be two collective review: in these occasions, each group will present (with Powerpoint or similar) its own work progress to the teacher and to the other students. These occasions are important both to exercise the communication skills of the students and to exchange and compare experiences among the different groups.
Assessment methods and criteria
During the course, the collective reviews, with public presentation of the designs, will allow a first evaluation of the correctness of speech and of the communicative skills.
These intermediate checks, although are not directly linked to the final grades, are in any case fundamental to demonstrate the profitable attendance to the course.
The judgment will be made in the final exam, which is oral and consists of:
- Discussion of the restoration design
- Oral examination on the theoretical part of the program of the two modules.
In order to pass the exams, the student must demonstrate a sufficient preparation in both learning modules.
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