Architectural Restoration and LaboratoryModule Laboratory of Architectural Restoration
Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: GIULIA FILOMENA SANFILIPPOExpected Learning Outcomes
The integrated course “ARCHITECTUAL RESTORATION AND ARCHITECTURAL RESTORATION LABORATORY” pursues the following general learning outcomes: knowledge of the most significant issues in the field of monument restoration, with reference to the development of the discipline and the evolution of its theories; ability to read restoration interventions, placing them in their historical context; ability to observe, reflect and judge autonomously but guided by a methodology that is based on theories and techniques consistent with the discipline for the resolution of problems connected to the restoration project.
The Architectural Restoration Workshop module's training objective is to test the knowledge acquired in the Architectural Restoration module, developing a project exercise. The students, applying the methodology (knowledge, interpretation, project), will have to demonstrate operational skills about the theoretical-methodological contents, observing and studying historical architecture with the criteria of the discipline. The proposed topics will allow maturing autonomy of judgement through integrating the different knowledge aimed at the definition of the project of restoration, reuse and valorisation of architectural heritage. They will critically evaluate, at each moment of the process, the information deduced from the interpretation phase up to the definition of the design solutions.
Course Structure
- initial presentation of the topic of the exercise and the framework of the questions to be faced with reference to the skills acquired in the fall unit (Architectural Restoration);
- workshop activities (in the classroom and on the field) aimed to develop an applicative approach to the proposed study-case;
- Illustration by the students of the results of the work carried out and collective discussion for the definition of the graphic works to be prepared for the final examination.
Required Prerequisites
Basic knowledge: drawing and survey, architectural history, historical building technologies, building statics.
Attendance of Lessons
Detailed Course Content
- direct and indirect cognitive analyses
- a graphic and written description of the state of affairs and the problems to be solved;
- the definition of the objectives and criteria of the conservation intervention;
- a graphic and written description of the project and the main technical solutions proposed (on a detailed scale).
- survey with the main information on the context, the historical/constructive phases, the structural aspects and related problems;
- mapping of decay;
- design description of the distribution and restoration solutions of the surfaces and structural elements.
Contribution of teaching to the objectives for the un agenda 2030 for sustainable development goal n. 11. Sustainable cities and communities - Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.
· 11.1 Safe and affordable housing. by 2030, ensure access for all to adequate, safe and affordable housing and basic services and upgrade slums.
· 11.3. Inclusive and sustainable urbanization by 2030, enhance inclusive and sustainable urbanization and capacity for participatory, integrated and sustainable human settlement planning and management in all countries.
· 11.4 Protect the world’s cultural and natural heritage. strengthen efforts to protect and safeguard the world’s cultural and natural heritage.
· 11.7 Provide access to safe and inclusive green and public spaces by 2030, provide universal access to safe, inclusive and accessible, green and public spaces, in particular for women and children, older persons and persons with disabilities.
· 11.a. Support least developed countries in sustainable and resilient building. support least developed countries, including through financial and technical assistance, in building sustainable and resilient buildings utilizing local materials.
Modalities
• Student participation in conferences
• Laboratory
• Study visits
• Meetings with neighborhood associations
Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Methodology for restoration design | |
| 2 | Degradation of materials and construction elements | |
| 3 | Graphics of the restoration design |
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
The exercise involves producing drawings demonstrating the execution of the activities proposed by the teacher.
The final examination is purely individual and consists of the presentation of the project exercise drawings and a discussion of the restoration choices concerning the course content of the first semester.
Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises
Illustrate the phases of the critical survey of the object of study
Explain the outcome of the interpretation step of the state of the building and the causes of decay
Illustrate the project path, describing and locating the interventions and highlight the reasoning (both technical and cultural) underlying the operational choices.
Final report on the criteria of the restoration project