The main topics covered will be: the disciplinary scope of restoration; the critical survey; the evolutionary processes of the factory; materials and structures; deterioration processes; the manifestations of decay and instability of structures; balancing instances of preservation and aesthetics of decay; the factory as referent; the restoration project as an act of protection; intervention techniques
Carbonara C (ed), Trattato di restauro architettonico, Torino 1996-2007
Doglioni F., Nel restauro progetti per le architetture del passato, Venezia 2008
Franceschi S. - Germani L., Il degrado dei materiali nell’edilizia. Cause e valutazioni delle patologie, Roma 2020
Franceschi S. - Germani L., Manuale Operativo per il Restauro Architettonico, Roma 2010
Germani L., Scritti Corsari sul restauro, Pisa 2020
Torsello P.B. (ed), Cosa è il restauro? Nove studiosi a confronto, Venezia 2005
Taking into account the breadth and complexity of the topics covered, it will be the responsibility of the lecturer to provide, from time to time as part of the teaching activities, more detailed bibliographical indications regarding the specific topics addressed.
Learning Objectives - Last names H-Z
The primary objective is to enable students to learn the skills and conceptual and operational tools that are indispensable for mastering the complexities encountered when drawing up a restoration project, so that they can act with awareness on the existing historical building and in particular on the old architectural heritage subject to protection.
Prerequisites - Last names H-Z
The student must have attended and learnt the subjects closely related to the study of the discipline, specifically: surveying, the study of the history of architecture, construction technologies of historical buildings
Teaching Methods - Last names H-Z
Teaching activities include: lectures of a monographic nature and content with the contribution also of lecturers and specialists from outside the University; classroom or off-site exercises; site visits and/or visits to the object of the exercise; workshop activities carried out in groups relating to the restoration project of an architectural artefact of cultural interest; moments of collective revision in order to initiate a critical discussion within the workshop and a check on the progress of the work.
Further information - Last names H-Z
The subject of the final exercise will be chosen in agreement with the lecturer. The different seminars will be explained during the first lessons.
Type of Assessment - Last names H-Z
The examination will consist of both an individual interview between the student and the lecturer on the theoretical and operational issues addressed during the workshop and the illustration and discussion of the papers produced for the agreed monographic exercise. In order to sit the exam, the papers to be defined and prepared during the workshop must be submitted.
Course program - Last names H-Z
TRAINING OBJECTIVES
The primary objective is to enable students to learn the skills and conceptual and operational tools indispensable for mastering the complexities encountered in drawing up restoration projects, so as to be able to act with awareness on the existing historical building and in particular on the architectural heritage of ancient formation subject to protection. The training course will be structured in such a way as to enable students to
identify and understand the evolutionary processes of the building and the deterioration processes of materials and structures;
recognise and classify the causes and manifestations (both evident and subtle) of deterioration of materials and disruption of structures; and
identify the needs, priorities and possible methods of intervention, taking into account both the references deduced from the disciplinary debate and the legislative provisions on the subject;
define the general and detailed objectives of the restoration project, taking into account the specific potential of the building, its current or foreseen function and the problems highlighted during the analysis;
know and know how to choose the most appropriate intervention techniques in order to counteract the causes and effects of deterioration and instability, so as to prevent the emergence of possible further problems;
prepare the main technical and administrative documents of the restoration project, from technical-illustrative reports to graphic designs.
MAIN COURSE CONTENTS
The workshop topics are 'conserve and understand', 'design to protect'. The workshop bases its assumptions on the conviction that intervention on the built environment, which is recognised as having historical-artistic value, requires a design approach that is outlined through the careful 'management' of knowledge, creativity and method.
The following topics will be covered during the Workshop
presentation of the discipline in the light of the most up-to-date acquisitions, in the context of a broader interdisciplinary field;
reconnaissance and surveys, criteria and operational aspects;
information gathering, organisation of 'archives', data processing and interpretation;
the critical survey;
historical research, evolution of sites and artefacts, stratigraphy of elevations and relationship with chronology;
aetiology (intrinsic congenital or extrinsic, current or past, continuous, isolated or cyclic, ordinary or extraordinary);
deterioration processes;
pathologies (evident and subtle) of material degradation and structure failure;
diagnostic investigations;
balancing between instances of conservation and 'aesthetics of deterioration': evaluation of the kinematics of phenomena in relation to the relationship between speed of decay and possible acceptance of alteration;
the factory as referent;
the restoration project as an act of active and conscious protection and compatible valorisation of the cultural heritage;
the restoration of materials and surfaces: intervention techniques (cleaning, consolidation, integration, protection);
restoration of structures: intervention techniques;
the technical and administrative preparation of the restoration project with a view to its presentation to the heritage protection bodies.
TEACHING METHODS
Teaching activities include
frontal lectures of a monographic nature and content with the contribution also of lecturers and specialists from outside the University and more directly linked to the world of work and institutions;
periodic classroom or off-site exercises (if possible), reconnaissance/surveys;
workshop-type revision activities, carried out in groups (consisting of a maximum of 2-3 students) relating to the restoration project of an architectural artefact of cultural interest;
moments of collective revision in order to initiate a critical discussion within the workshop and a check on the progress of the work. The students will be invited to exhibit and present collectively in the workshop the work derived from the examination conducted so far.
METHODS FOR VERIFYING LEARNING
The examination will consist of both an individual interview between the student and the lecturer on the theoretical and operational themes addressed during the workshop and the illustration and discussion of the papers produced for the agreed monographic exercise. In order to sit the exam, the papers to be defined and prepared during the workshop must be submitted.
ESSENTIAL REFERENCE BIBLIOGRAPHY
Carbonara C (ed), Trattato di restauro architettonico, Torino 1996-2007
Doglioni F., Nel restauro progetti per le architetture del passato, Venezia 2008
Franceschi S. - Germani L., Il degrado dei materiali nell’edilizia. Cause e valutazioni delle patologie, Roma 2020
Franceschi S. - Germani L., Manuale Operativo per il Restauro Architettonico, Roma 2010
Germani L., Scritti Corsari sul restauro, Pisa 2020
Torsello P.B. (ed), Cosa è il restauro? Nove studiosi a confronto, Venezia 2005
In view of the vastness and complexity of the topics covered, the lecturer will provide more detailed bibliographical indications on the specific topics from time to time as part of the teaching activities.
Sustainable Development Goals 2030 - Last names H-Z