Course Program
The course aims to provide fundamental knowledge related to the representation of interventions on historic built heritage, through the understanding, survey, and analysis of both the urban and architectural/building context. Students are expected to acquire the main procedural aspects and to develop, through targeted “Case Studies,” the design phases involved in the enhancement of a historic center, with particular focus on understanding the construction techniques and evolutionary processes of building structures.
The educational objective also includes developing a “knowledge-based” approach to masonry structures (according to the former NTC 2018), with a focus on the recovery and conservation of building aggregates in seismic zones. The course module also introduces regulatory aspects concerning interventions on the built environment and provides basic elements for understanding the main theories of Restoration.
- Introduction to interventions on the built environment;
- Methods for understanding existing structures, with emphasis on surveying the current state through geometric and dimensional analysis and investigations;
- Identification of typological and construction-related aspects;
- Knowledge of construction materials and study of alteration and degradation phenomena;
- Introductory elements for analyzing and understanding the mechanical characteristics of historic masonry, crack patterns, collapse mechanisms, and macroseismic approach;
- Procedures for the functional rehabilitation of the built environment;
- Comparison and analysis of the distinguishing features of some paradigmatic interventions in the field of conservation and building restoration;
- Analysis of significant Recovery Plans for minor historic centers;
- Definitions, basic terminology, and theoretical and historical foundations of restoration;
- Expansion of the concept of restoration and rehabilitation from the individual building to the urban context;
- Regulatory framework, both national and regional, regarding restoration/rehabilitation interventions and analysis of guidelines for urban regeneration interventions.
The topics covered will be developed through a specific and detailed “Case Study,” to be carried out individually or in groups, which will serve as the basis for the final evaluation.
