- Docente: Giorgia Predari
- Credits: 4
- SSD: ICAR/10
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Architecture-Engineering (cod. 5695)
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from Feb 23, 2024 to Jun 07, 2024
Learning outcomes
The course provides the basic knowledge and analysis criteria for understanding the construction techniques of existing buildings, regarding the technological and architectural aspects of buildings with a masonry or reinforced concrete load-bearing structure. An excursus through the technical solutions in ancient and pre-modern times will provide the ability of recognizing the evolution of construction techniques in architecture, useful for the interpretation of the morphological, structural and technological aspects of architectural artefacts. Particular attention will be paid to the improvements of technologies over time thanks to the experimentation of increasingly innovative materials and technologies.
Course contents
The course is divided into two teaching modules aimed at providing a knowledge base for the interventions on the built heritage, with an in-depth study of technical and construction issues.
1. Knowledge of historic masonry buildings
The basic contents concerning the construction techniques of existing masonry buildings are provided, as regards the construction elements, such as vertical structures, floors, foundations and roofs.
2. Knowledge of historic reinforced-concrete buildings
The basic contents concerning the construction techniques of existing reinforced concrete buildings are provided, as regards the construction elements, such as vertical structures, floors, foundations and roofs.
For both teaching modules, the student learns how to evaluate the criticalities of existing buildings in relation to current regulatory and performance demands.
Readings/Bibliography
Slides provided by the teachers on Virtuale
Bocchi, F. Bologna e i suoi portici. Storia dell’origine e dello sviluppo. Grafis Edizioni, 1995
Cervellati, P. L.; Scannavini, R. Bologna: politica e metodologia del restauro nei centri storici. Società Editrice Il Mulino, 1973
Collegio costruttori edili ed imprenditori affini della Provincia di Bologna. Muratori in Bologna. Arte e società dalle origini al secolo 18. Ed. f. c., 1981
Latina, C. Muratura portante in laterizio. Tecnologia Progetto Architettura. Edizioni Laterconsult, 1994
Guenzi, C. (a cura di), L’arte di edificare. Manuali in Italia 1750-1950, BE-MA, Milano 1993
Poretti, S. Modernismi italiani. Architettura e costruzione nel Novecento, Gangemi, Roma 2008
Iori, T. Il cemento armato in Italia dalle origini alla seconda guerra mondiale, Edilstampa, Roma 2001
Mochi, G.; Predari, G. La costruzione moderna a Bologna (1875-1915). Ragione scientifica e sapere tecnico nella pratica del costruire in cemento armato. Bruno Mondadori, 2012
Predari, G. I solai latero-cementizi nella costruzione moderna in Italia (1930-1950), BUP 2015
Teaching methods
Classroom lectures on the topics of the course.
Classroom discussion on detailed aspects.
Assessment methods
Oral discussion on the topics of the course.
Preparation of an essay, where the student applies the knowledge process of the course on an selected existing building.
Periodic classroom reviews of the essay.
Teaching tools
PPT slideson Virtuale.
Office hours
See the website of Giorgia Predari