09362 - Architectural Restoration (B)

Learning outcomes

The task of the course would be making the student able to elaborate and produce a project in the field of heritage preservation and restoration of a specific building. In the building must be present visible and consistent problems of conservation of materials and of the frame. It has to be accessible, it has to permit a philological and historical-critical study and a close reading of the materials, of the decay processes and of the building techniques.

Course contents

Among the different possibilities we can choose, it's undeniable and clear that

conservation of historical architecture is the only way to permit people who will come after

us to repeat the experiment where we've left it.

Projecting an intervention on existing architecture is an activity of huge responsibility: the

architect has to be conscious of the result that his choice can bring, although this

consciousness has taken long time to become a real part of architects or the engineers.

The aim is to give the competences to face a restoration project on a monument,

individuated for its problem of conservation and its accessibility, making a philological and

historical-critical reading and approaching the analysis of the building.

The course is divided in theoretical and practical classes. The check on the results

reached by the students will be part during the course and part at the final exam.

Readings/Bibliography

the same as in italian

Teaching methods

The course is organized in lectures and work in the field. The lectures will support the work in the field on the topics of the project on heritage; the will focus on topics as history and theory of restoration, methodological and general topics, technical and building site problems.

Assessment methods

The evaluation will be carried on through the compilation of a project of restoration.

Office hours

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