LABORATORIO DI RESTAURO M - Z

Learning Objectives

• Restoration

  The basic objective of the course is to understand the aims and areas of restoration work and in particular of architectural restoration, in theoretical foundations and in methodological questions. The examination of the main founding themes of the discipline will lead to the investigation of the criteria and of the operating practices that are combined in the restoration project.

  The final goal that we want to achieve is to make students aware that the preparation of a restoration project is a complex operation that must be developed through the necessary knowledge of certain essential steps for the quality of the result to be obtained. The identification of those conservative modalities that are the most suitable for obtaining the handing down and for the maintenance of the legibility of the characters and historical configurations of the investigated architectural objects.

  The determination of these modalities will derive directly from an articulated analytical-cognitive process of which we first want to provide the basic concepts for the subsequent implementation in the course of the design exercise.

  Students are wished to understand the diversity of critical attitudes, methods and specific goals that have marked the relationship between Man and the Document-Monument throughout the centuries and up until today. This in order to broaden the knowledge of useful information when it is necessary to make design choices in respect of historical architectural evidence in the awareness of what has been the overall evolution of the discipline.

  Attention will be focused on the physical consistency of the structures and their state of conservation, for a critical reading of the same.

• Building Strengthening

  The aim of the course is the illustration of the methodological steps needed to define the conservative intervention criteria and the consequent real technical interventions for the restoration of the building. Particular importance is attributed to the fact-finding phase and critical interpretation of the current state of the building.

  Lectures is joined a seminar exercise that goes parallel to the lessons. The workshop assumes that students perform the scheduled activities under the coordination of teachers: on field observation and surveys; analyses and synthesis of the known historical data; examination of the construction materials and building systems; analysis of the current condition of the building or of a part of it; proposals for restoration.

Detailed Course Content

• Restoration

  Recalls of theories and history of restoration

  The concept of Reuse in the recent architectural debate

  The Restoration in the current theoretical orientations and its main declinations

  Architecture, Restoration and Reuse in the comparison between ancient and new

  The architectural artifact

  Recalls on architectural survey and graphic restitution

  Macroscopic alterations of stone materials

  "Critical" survey

  Restoration Techniques

  The restoration project. Phases, contents, elaborates, procedures

• Building Strengthening

  Materials and traditional building techniques. Stone, bricks, mortars, wood: processing and building systems. The historic masonry textures: analysis and interpretation. Overall configuration of the historic buildings.

  Damage and degradation. Main causes of instability, reading of the evidence on the building, foreshadowing the actual or expected damage (cracking framework and collapse mechanisms). Alterations and deterioration of materials: main causes, reading of the evidence on the building and foreshadowing of the actual or expected damage (identification of degradation).

  Investigation and diagnostic techniques. Illustration main specialist investigation and diagnostic tests: objectives, results interpretation.

  Definition of restoration project criteria. Reversibility, compatibility and minimal intervention. Strengthening and improving techniques of the masonry structure.

Textbook Information

• Restoration

  1. CARBONARA G., Architettura d’oggi e restauro. Un confronto antico-nuovo, Torino, UTET, 2011.

  2. CARBONARA G., Avvicinamento al restauro. Teoria, storia, monumenti, Napoli, Liguori, 1997.

  3. Che cos’è il restauro? Nove studiosi a confronto, da un’idea di B.P. Torsello, Venezia, Marsilio, 2005.

  4. DOGLIONI F., Nel restauro. Progetti per le architetture del passato, Venezia, Marsilio, 2008.

  5. TORSELLO B.P., MUSSO S.F., Tecniche di restauro architettonico, Torino, UTET, 2003.

  6. Tecniche di restauro: aggiornamento, diretto da S. F. MUSSO, Torino, UTET scienze tecniche, 2013.

  7. Trattato di restauro architettonico, diretto da G. CARBONARA, Torino, UTET, 1996.

  8. UNI 11182/2006 Beni culturali. Materiali lapidei naturali ed artificiali. Descrizione della forma di alterazione - Termini e definizioni, Milano, UNI - Ente Nazionale Italiano di Unificazione, 2006.

  9. CACCIA S., Restoration in a few words. Methodology and Techniques, Wu Han - China, Huazhong University of Science & Technology Press (HUST Press), 2013 (II ed.).

  10. CACCIA S., In praise of care. The restoration project: critical orientation and experience, Pisa, Ets., 2012.

• Building Strengthening

  Adam, J.P., L'arte di costruire presso i romani, Milano, 1988 (pp. 111-128; 129-135; 137-170; 173-210)

  Carbonara G., Avvicinamento al restauro, teoria, storia, monumenti, Napoli, 1997 (pp. 5-45; 443-493)

  Carbonara G., Restauro dei monumenti. Guida agli elaborati grafici, Liguori, Napoli 1990

  Cnr-Icr, Normal 1/88, Alterazioni macroscopiche dei materiali lapidei: lessico, Roma 1990;

  Cnr-Icr, Normal 20/85, Interventi conservativi: progettazione, esecuzione e valutazione preventiva, Roma 1985;

  F. Doglioni, Nel restauro. Progetti per le architetture del passato, Marsilio Editori, IUAV, Venezia 2008

  F. Doglioni, P. Mazzotti (a cura di), Codice di pratica per gli interventi di miglioramento sismico nel restauro del patrimonio architettonico, ed. Regione Marche, Ancona 2007

  Donghi, D, Manuale dell'architetto, Torino, 1925, vol. I

  Feiffer, C.,, La conservazione delle superfici intonacate. Il metodo e le tecniche, Skira, Milano 1997;

  Fiorani, D., Rilievo del degrado e diagnostica, in Trattato di restauro architettonico, diretto da G. Carbonara, Torino, Utet, 1996, vol. II, pp. 523-540;

  Fiorani D., Restauro architettonico e strumento informatico. Guida agli elaborati grafici, Liguori, Napoli 2004

  Giovannetti F., Manuale di recupero di Città di Castello, DEI, Roma, 1992

  Giuffrè, A., (a cura di), Sicurezza e conservazione dei centri storici, il caso Ortigia, Bari, 1993. (pp 3-12; 69-99; 100-131; 132-141; 151-180)

  Giuffrè, A., Monumenti e terremoti, aspetti statici del restauro, Roma, 1988 (pp. 73-81; 83-120)

  Varagnoli, C., La materia degli antichi edifici, in Trattato di restauro architettonico, diretto da G. Carbonara, Torino, Utet, 1996, vol. I, pp. 303-470.