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
Laboratory of restoration, 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;
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 take place in person, 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.
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 laboratory 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)
Other information
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