- Introduction to the Architectural Restoration
- Principles and current practices of architectural restoration;
- The restoration project;
- Preservation techniques of architectural artifacts:
- The project of preservation of the materials.
- The conservation project structures
- The project of re-use and functional rehabilitation;
- The maintenance project :.
- Outlines of archaeological restoration
- Communication in the restoration and enhancement
- Conservation and sustainability
Riegl, Alois (S. Scarrocchia, ed.) - Il culto moderno dei monumenti. Il suo carattere e i suoi inizi - Milano, 2011
Ruskin, John - The seven lamps of architecture - Wiley: Oxford, 1849
Torsello, Paolo, B. (ed.) - Che cos'è il restauro? Nove studiosi a confronto - Marsilio: Padova, 2005
Torsello, Paolo B. - Restauro architettonico. Padri, teorie, immagini - Angeli: Milano, 2001
Vecco, Marilena - L’evoluzione del concetto di patrimonio culturale - Angeli: Milano, 2011
Bellini, Amedeo (ed.) - Tecniche della conservazione - Angeli: Milano, 2001
Zevi, Luca (a cura di) - Manuale del restauro architettonico - Mancosu: Roma, 2008 (1° 2000)
Musso, Stefano – Torsello, Paolo - Tecniche di restauro architettonico - UTET: Milano, 2003 (2 vol.)
Pedemonte, Enrico - Fornari Gabriella - Chimica e restauro. La scienza dei materiali per l’architettura - Marsilio: Venezia, 2006
Mastrodicasa, Sisto - Dissesti statici delle strutture edilizie. Diagnosi, consolidamento, istituzioni tecniche, applicazioni pratiche - HOEPLI: Milano, 2010
Del Curto, Davide (a cura di) - Ambiente interno e conservazione: Il controllo del clima nei musei e negli edifici storici - Nardini, Firenze, 2010
Further references will be provided during the course according to the needs of individual research.
Learning Objectives - Part C
The purpose of the Workshop is to provide the tools (methodological, technical and critical) for a correct setting of the conservation project. Nodal point of this path is to achieve an adequate level of awareness of the characteristics of the intervention on the built heritage: the content and the main operational interdisciplinary connections, but also issues related to its historical significance, its value as cultural and contemporary resource of growth. The cultural historical and current steps will be focused that led to conservative choices in different contexts. The goal is to implement the capabilities of assessment for the management of the recognized values of the architectural heritage.
Prerequisites - Part C
it is strongly recommended a basic knowledge of the following topics: features of architectural history, historic and traditional building techniques, characters and pathologies of traditional materials, architectural survey, static instability of the structures, methods and tools for diagnostics.
Teaching Methods - Part C
The workshop is divided into a series of lectures, visits, exercises and project activities.
Lectures: lectures on basic topics will be accompanied by seminars and communications in-depth on specific issues and case studies. Events, conventions and conferences on issues of conservation will be reported during the course.
Visits and surveys: it includes visits to monuments, sites and restoration workshops, aimed to foster dialogue and to collect specific information on the project.
Exercises: the laboratory includes a series of exercises in the classroom, outside, at home, for the application and verification of the topics discussed. These activities will be primarily oriented to the experimental design.
Design activity: all laboratory activities will be aimed at developing a research project on an architectural work, of adequate complexity, previously agreed with the teacher. Students who want it, will continue the work experience carried out during the Restoration Laboratory I. In each case, the search cannot be bypassed by the appropriate diagnostic and analytical insights, which will be checked for consistency and any additions will be agreed. Students, individually or in small groups, will be conducted for the preparation of a project of conservation and, if possible, of the first hypothesis of reuse. It will be a particular focus on links between the form of proceedings technical (operational decisions, legal framework, technical documents) and the conceptual (intervention philosophy) in which the modalities of the project take shape. The individual research topics will be subject to audits and investigations, also collective.
Type of Assessment - Part C
The exercises done during the course, as well as a time of experimentation and application of the topics, constitute intermediate tests of educational processes. Assessment methods and results will be constantly communicated and discussed during the workshop.
The final design research must be illustrated by a set of documents essentially constituted by: a report of the project work done, graphics in the most suitable format to describe the essential steps of the research and proposals of intervention. Some documentation will be prepared in reference to the current legislative framework. Giving details of the works to present will be provided during the course.
The final exam consists of an interview, individuals and groups, on the topics covered during the course, the bibliography, methods and results of the exercises and the final project.
Course program - Part C
Topics and purpose of the course
The restoration workshop is a summary of the most challenging of the degree course and involves a broad base of knowledge. Appeals to much of the knowledge gained during the studies of architecture (and consequently, affected by their possible shortcomings) and at the same time caters to other fields and disciplines, from historical sciences to the natural sciences. Any adjustments to the built entails choices of a technical nature but also cultural, which place the architect restorer facing important responsibilities to the communities in which it operates and to their future.
The purpose of the workshop is to provide the tools (methodological, technical and critical) for a correct setting of the conservation project. Nodal point of this route is to achieve an adequate level of awareness of the characteristics that the intervention has built: the content and the main operational interdisciplinary connections, but also issues related to its historical significance, cultural and contemporary resource growth . Steps will be focused cultural and historical current that led to conservative choices in different contexts. The goal is to implement the capabilities of Assessment conceptual management recognized values of architectural work. They will discuss the methodological aspects and technical resources to make choices independent operating and to develop a proper design process. Through analysis of its significant phases students will learn the procedure for preparing the conservation project, especially intended as care program over the long haul. The educational activities will address the following issues:
- Introduction to the Architectural Restoration: definitions and basic concepts; framework evolutionary history of the theory and practice conservative; case studies ancient and modern.
- Principles and current practices of architectural restoration; technical and cultural nodes of the current debate on the Italian and international conservation and protection of architectural heritage; main reference documents; organization of protection of architectural heritage in Italy;
- The restoration project; procedures, elaborate parties involved and bureaucratic process of preliminary, final and executive; assessment and economic management of the restoration project; Italian legislative framework; the situation in Europe and internationally.
- Preservation techniques of architectural artifacts: general framework, assumptions and design applications; operating procedures traditional and modern; methods for the control of effectiveness. The quality of the conservation project; simulations, models, tests and experiments in the laboratory and on site; role, issues and current trends in scientific research.
- The project of preservation of the materials. Methodological guidelines for the selection and design of the intervention; traditional and modern techniques for the treatment of materials; main reference standards; interventions for moisture problems in buildings.
- The project of conservation structures; structural consolidation of historical buildings: methodology for the selection and design of the intervention; traditional and modern techniques of consolidation; criteria and methodologies for the restoration of buildings affected by the earthquake; the seismic improvement; main reference standards.
- The project of re-use and functional rehabilitation; adjustment and commissioning under historic buildings (installations, architectural barriers, safety, accessibility, ...); main reference standards.
- The restoration site. Organization, security, roles, figures; historical practices of the construction site; Italian main reference standards.
- The maintenance project: the management of the evolutionary processes of the buildings; objectives and potential prevention and maintenance; drafting and management of a maintenance plan; main reference standards.
- Outlines of archaeological restoration. Techniques and procedures of conservation and maintenance of architectural reduced in ruins; subject area and historical evolution; main reference standards.
- Communication in the restoration and enhancement; the museum display of monuments; virtual digital heritage and usability of the built historic and monumental.
- Conservation and sustainability. The value (economic, cultural, anthropological, etc.) of the interventions in relation to the community; perspectives of contemporary conservation.
Articulation of teaching
The workshop was divided into a series of lectures, visits, exercises and project activities.
Lectures: lectures on basic topics of the course will be accompanied by seminars and communications in-depth on specific issues and case studies. Events, conventions and conferences on issues of conservation will be reported during the course.
Visits and surveys: it includes visits to sites and monuments, sites and restoration workshops, aimed to foster dialogue and the collection of specific information on the project.
Exercises: the laboratory includes a series of exercises in the classroom, outside, at home, for the application and verification of the topics discussed. These activities will be primarily oriented to the experimental design.
Design activity: all laboratory activities will be aimed at developing a research project on an architectural work, of adequate complexity, previously agreed with the teacher. Students who want it, will continue the work experience carried out during the Restoration Laboratory I. In each case, the search can not be bypassed by the appropriate diagnostic and analytical insights, which will be checked for consistency and any additions will be agreed. Students, individually or in small groups, will be conducted for the preparation of a project of conservation and, if possible, of the first hypothesis of reuse. It will be a particular focus on links between the form of proceedings technical (operational decisions, legal framework, technical documents) and the conceptual (intervention philosophy) in which the modalities of the project take shape. The individual research topics will be subject to audits and investigations, also collective.
Teaching materials: literature and documents on which to insights and debates will be provided from time to time during the lessons. Depending on the type of exercises we will be provided with the materials and tools they need, or they will be shown the availability.
Recommended knowledge: it is strongly recommended a basic knowledge of the following topics: features of architectural history, historic and traditional building techniques, characters and pathologies of traditional materials, architectural survey, static instability of the structures, methods and tools for diagnostics.
Assessment methods
The exercises done during the course, as well as a time of experimentation and application of the topics covered, constitute intermediate tests of educational processes. Assessment methods and results will be constantly communicated and discussed during the workshop.
The design research will go conclusive illustrated by a set of processed essentially constituted by: a report of the planning done, elaborate graphics format is the most suitable to describe the essential steps of the research and proposals of intervention. Some documentation will be prepared in reference to the current legislative framework. Giving details of the works to present will be provided during the course.
The final exam consists of an interview, individuals and groups, on the topics covered during the course, the bibliography, methods and results of the exercises and the final project.
Deadlines
- The theme of the research project must be agreed with the teacher before 21 March 2016.
- Copy (paper and digital) final exercise will be given to teaching a week prior to the exam date. Entries will not be returned and will remain deposited in the course.
- Students who wish to take the exam by NOT attending are required to report it to the teacher by March 21, 2016, to agree on an appropriate work program.
References
Riegl, Alois (S. Scarrocchia, ed.) - Il culto moderno dei monumenti. Il suo carattere e i suoi inizi - Milano, 2011
Ruskin, John - The seven lamps of architecture - Wiley: Oxford, 1849
Torsello, Paolo, B. (ed.) - Che cos'è il restauro? Nove studiosi a confronto - Marsilio: Padova, 2005
Torsello, Paolo B. - Restauro architettonico. Padri, teorie, immagini - Angeli: Milano, 2001
Vecco, Marilena - L’evoluzione del concetto di patrimonio culturale - Angeli: Milano, 2011
Bellini, Amedeo (ed.) - Tecniche della conservazione - Angeli: Milano, 2001
Zevi, Luca (a cura di) - Manuale del restauro architettonico - Mancosu: Roma, 2008 (1° 2000)
Musso, Stefano – Torsello, Paolo - Tecniche di restauro architettonico - UTET: Milano, 2003 (2 vol.)
Pedemonte, Enrico - Fornari Gabriella - Chimica e restauro. La scienza dei materiali per l’architettura - Marsilio: Venezia, 2006
Mastrodicasa, Sisto - Dissesti statici delle strutture edilizie. Diagnosi, consolidamento, istituzioni tecniche, applicazioni pratiche - HOEPLI: Milano, 2010
Del Curto, Davide (a cura di) - Ambiente interno e conservazione: Il controllo del clima nei musei e negli edifici storici - Nardini, Firenze, 2010
Further references will be provided during the course according to the needs of individual research.