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 the
historical building, aimed at its enhancement in
relation to the existing cultural debate.
Skills:
At the end of the study path, the student must have
developed the ability to identify the main criticalities
and potentialities of a building or, more generally, a
historical site (understood 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
their project, the student is expected to have
developed the ability to critically evaluate the
potential and implicit constraints in the state of
conservation of a site, identifying the conservation
and intervention techniques more correctness,
always necessary balance between request for
conservation, structural safety and enhancement
(new use). 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 properties, with particular
reference to the specific technical terminology of the
courses involved, in order to be able to effectively
and punctually communicate their project, in the
various aspects involved.
Learning ability:
The student must acquire the ability to critically
evaluate different possible options and to frame their
own design choices in a wider cultural context.
Prerequisites
It is useful to have attended the course of
ANALYSIS and CONSERVATION OF EXISTING
STRUCTURES (I year Master, Architecture) and
RESTORATION PROJECT, of which this synthesis
laboratory constitutes the natural evolution. The
knowledge of consolidation and structural analysis
of historic buildings, as well as of the materials that
compose them, are assumed to have been acquired
during the course, and will be studied in depth in the
specific module.
It is also useful to have attended the course in History and Theory of Restoration and Construction
Characteristics of Historical Building, as well as
Materials for Architecture.
Knowledge of automatic drawing programs and
multimedia presentations is helpful.
Course unit content
The course is essentially aimed at the
reorganization, by the students, of the contents
learned during the course of study for the realization
of their final degree thesis, on the themes of
conservation and reuse.
Organized in a theoretical part - recalling and
deepening the main themes of restoration and
conservation, as well as the tools to achieve them -
and a more operational - of restoration design
applied to a specific case (chosen by the student
during the course), the Laboratory consists of
several modules:
- Integrated conservation of historical buildings
- Analysis and evaluations for the transformability of
architecture
- Usefulness and harm of history for restoration
- Analysis and methods for the conservation of
historical green
- The technological system for the passive behavior
of the building
- Analysis of existing structural constructions
- Lithology and geology for architecture
Please refer to the cards for a more detailed
description of the contents of the individual courses.
During the course the student will be provided with a
broad and critical view of regulations, methods and
techniques for the knowledge of the historical
architectural heritage and its state of conservation,
as well as the most current methodologies for the
definition of a correct restoration project, which very
often finds in reuse the first guarantee of realization, also lso in relation to the existing cultural debate.
The design part will be developed by individual students (even in small groups) in their final
graduation paper which will result in the project of a
specific case study (proposed by the teachers or
even chosen independently by the student, subject
to their approval) on which to apply, in a critical
synthesis, the knowledge acquired during the
course in the individual courses.
Full programme
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Bibliography
Recommended books:
· AA. VV, Trattato di restauro architettonico, diretto
da Giovanni Carbonara, Utet, Torino 1996.
· B. P. TORSELLO, S. F. MUSSO, Tecniche di
restauro architettonico, Utet, Torino 2003.
· AA. VV., Il manuale del restauro architettonico,
coordinato da Luca Zevi, Mancosu, Roma 2001.
· E. MAZRIA, Sistemi solari passivi: soluzioni per
una migliore qualità ambientale degli edifici, Franco
Muzzio editore, Padova, 1990.
· E. GIURIANI, Consolidamento degli edifici storici,
Utet, Torino, 2012
Other books:
- R. DI STEFANO, Antiche pietre per una nuova
civiltà, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, Napoli, 2003;
- R. DI STEFANO, Monumenti e valori, Edizioni
Scientifiche Italiane, Napoli, 1996;
- T. MONTANARI, Privati del patrimonio, Le Vele,
Einaudi, Torino, 201?
- S. SETTIS, Architettura e democrazia, Le Vele,
Einaudi, Torino, 201
- R. PICONE, Conservazione e accessibilità. Il
superamento delle barriere architettoniche negli
edifici e nei siti storici, Arte Tipografica, Napoli 2004.
- J. GOULDING, R. LEWIS, J. OWEN, TP.
STEEMERS, Energy in Architecture: the European
Passive Solar Handbook, Commission of the
European Communities, Dublino, 1992.
- V. CALDERARO, Architettura solare passiva:
manuale di progettazione, Edizioni Kappa, Roma,
1981.c
- C. BENEDETTI, Manuale di Architettura
Bioclimatica, Maggioli editore, Rimini, 1994.
- AA.VV, Architettura bioclimatica, De Luca editore,
Roma, 1983.
R. ACHARD, P. GICQUEL., European Passive
Solar Handbook: Basic Principles and Concepts for
Passive Solar Architecture. Commission of the
European Communities, 1986.
ICOMOS-ISCS: Illustrated glossary on stone
deterioration patterns = ICOMOS-ISCS: Glossaire
illustré sur les formes d'altération de la pierre.
Manual. ICOMOS, Paris, 2008, 78p.
http://www.icomos.org/publications/monuments_and
_sites/15/pdf/Monuments_and_Sites_15_I
SCS_Glossary_Stone.pdf
Cadignani, Rossella; Lugli, Stefano. La Torre
Ghirlandina, storia e restauro (Voll. 1 e 2). Luca
Sossella Editore, 2010
- M. VINCI, Metodi di calcolo e tecniche di
consolidamento per edifici in muratura, Dario
Flaccovio Ed., 2019
- R. ANTONUCCI, Restauro e Recupero degli edifici
a struttura muraria. Analisi e interventi sul “costruito
storico”, Maggioli, 2012
- M. COMO, Statica delle costruzioni storiche in
muratura, Aracne, 2013
Additional teaching material (AVAILABLE ON THE
COURSE'S ELY PLATFORM):
lecture slides
Teaching methods
The course is divided into 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 the in-depth study
of topics useful for the project and in reviews by all
the teachers involved in the workshop on the design
theme chosen by the individual students.
Lessons will mainly take place in person - obviously
after checking public health conditions and in
compliance with the University regulations. For
students who, at least in the first semester and for
justified reasons, should decide to follow in remote
mode, support material will be provided to the slides
on the elly page of the course (seminar pills,
references to texts, videos)
In addition, seminar lessons for guests are planned,
which may be remote and which will in any case be
recorded and delivered also in streaming mode.
Furthermore, the module “Lithology and geology for
architecture” (2 CFU) will be delivered remotely, at
least for the first semester. The few online lessons
will still be scheduled in the timetable in order to
allow the student a possible organization
(concentrating them in a part of the day or for the
whole day) and to make the necessary movements.
There will also be a workshop, in the second
semester, which will see the deepening of the
students' project work, through seminars in the field
and reviews by other actors involved in the
restoration design process (institutions,
superintendence, external professionals,
associations interested).
For the design part, the students took advantage of
the restoration project of the chosen case study
(assigned or approved by the teachers), the aspects
of the individual courses through a series of ongoing
revisions. The reviews are carried out during aboratory hours by analyzing the material prepared
by the students on paper.
At least two collective reviews are foreseen during
the course: at the end of the first semester and at
the end of the course. On such occasions each
student (or possible group) must present (with
Powerpoint or similar) the progress of their project to
the teachers and other students. These occasions
are important for exercising the student's
communication skills and as an opportunity for
exchange and comparison, as well as for checking
the progress of the work during the course.
Assessment methods and criteria
During the year there will be collective reviews
(roughly two), public presentation of the projects,
which will allow an initial assessment of the
language properties and communication skills of the
students.
The exam will consist in the delivery of some
summary tables and a short report of the final
project, which will then be developed in the degree
thesis, and in the evaluation of the material by the
teachers involved in the course, in a joint and
integrated way (obviously in proportion to the
credits of each module)
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