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Aims :

To provide students with a cultural basis of architectural restoration with particular reference to restoration planning.

Topics :

The evolution of the idea of restoration. Professional guidelines for restoration. The evolution of building skeletons in masonry. Problems connected with the restoration of modern architecture. The mechanics of masonry. Masonry instabilities. Technical evolution in the construction of roofing and wooden flooring. The instabilities of wooden structures. Analysis of the range of intervention techniques for masonry and wooden structures. Analysis of some types of finish in historical architecture with particular reference to traditional plaster and to cane ceilings. Seismic vulnerability of buildings in masonry and assessment of the efficacy of some intervention techniques.
The course includes a practical session for the development of the architectural restoration project of a building previously geometrically surveyed (analysis of the instabilities, technological analysis, historical analysis, intervention project).

Textbooks :

Duplicated lecture notes.
The entry “Restoration” in an Art Encyclopaedia.
B.P. Torziello, “La materia del restauro”, Marsilio Ed., Venezia 1988.
P. Marconi, “Dal piccolo al grande Restauro!” Marsilio Ed. Venezia 1989.
L. Caleca, A. De Vecchi, “ Tecniche di consolidamento delle strutture murarie”, Flaccovio Ed., Palermo 1987.
A. Giuffrè, “Letture sulla meccanica delle murature”, Edizioni Kappa, Roma 1991.
P. Munafò, “Recupero dei solai in lengo”, Flaccovio Ed., Palermo, 1990.
P. Munafò, “Le capriate lignee per i tetti a bassa pendenza”, ALINEA Ed., Firenze 2002.

Exam :

Sarà svolta una esercitazione progettuale su oggetti edilizi già rilevati
geometricamente indirizzata prevalentemente alla diagnosi dei dissesti e del degrado,al rilievo critico e a quello tecnologico.

Tutorial Session :

Wednesday 9.00-11.00