FINAL SYNTHESIS STUDIO - LABORATORY B
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- Academic year
- 2020/2021
- Teacher
- RICCARDO DALLA NEGRA
- Credits
- 24
- Didactic period
- Annualità Singola
Training objectives
- The laboratory represents the final teaching experience where the degree thesis begins and it is brought to a complete level of development. The teaching activities aim to provide the methodological and operational tools necessary for the direct approach to restoring and consolidating historic special buildings.
The main knowledge acquired will be:
- methodology for understanding the evolutionary phases of urban organisms;
- methodology for understanding the historic - constructive phases of building organisms;
- knowledge relating to urban morphology and building typology (of historic basic and special buildings);
- knowledge about building types and their process (of historic basic and special buildings);
- knowledge of the materials and building techniques of the historic buildings;
- knowledge of structural types in relation to construction technologies and materials with particular reference to masonry buildings;
- knowledge of the main kinematic motion and collapse mechanisms of wall structures;
- knowledge of the causes, processes and evidence of degradation of the various families of materials;
- knowledge of the most up-to-date experiences and theoretical positions in the restoration discipline.
The main skills (e.g., the ability to apply acquired knowledge) will be:
- ability to analyze urban morphology;
- ability to critically correlate data for historic-constructive analysis of building organisms in their different phases;
- ability to correctly interpret the structural layout of the building organism for evidence of its eventual failure;
- ability to interpret and appropriately return the building or groups of buildings to their proper condition, in relation to the component materials (and related finishes) and to the evidence of degradation;
- ability to identify the appropriate intervention strategies in problems identified at the various scales, including issues related to the reintegration of architectural lacuna;
- ability to autonomously elaborate the restoration project in its different descriptive and graphic descriptions, respecting the intended characteristics and use, also through the possible insertion of new parts. Prerequisites
- Only those who have taken the exam for "Monument Restoration Laboratory" may take this exam.
The following knowledge is required from the "Construction Science" and "Monument Restoration Laboratory" courses: -
- elementary structural analysis concepts;
- ability to understand the structural layout in relation to construction technologies and materials;
- basic knowledge for analysis of construction events;
- basic knowledge of materials and related forms of degradation;
- basic knowledge for representation of the actual condition; -
basic knowledge for setting up the restoration project. Course programme
- The laboratory will be presented in several complementary and closely related modules, for a total of 216 hours of presence in classes. The contents are agreed among the teachers based on a coherent offer specifically focused on the historic special buildings, with particular reference to the evolutionary, material and structural aspects and in view of recovery interventions, performance adjustments and consolidation of the structures with the objective of seismic improvement.
A further aspect is strictly connected to evaluating the possibility of reintegrating architectural lacuna.
At specific times, activities will involve several instructors (seminar discussions, inspections and guided tours, final workshop), to further encourage the integration of content.
Architectural restoration (96 hours present)
Theoretical principles of conservation of the historic special buildings; analysis of architectural, material and constructive features; diagnosis of decay and static instability; methods for restoration, structural consolidation, and reintegration.
Retrofit and performance improvement of historic special buildings (60 hours present)
Understanding constructive, functional, typological and technological features of building organisms (production processes, traditional and innovative construction techniques) aimed to evaluating the feasibility of the restoration and structural consolidation project.
Consolidation and seismic improvement of historic buildings (20 hours present)
Understanding seismic action effects and resultant structural behavior based on typological and morphological features, materials and construction techniques, interaction with the soil, etc.
Safety checks and structural solutions applicable to historic buildings.
Degradation and diagnostics of materials in historic buildings (20 hours present)
Geological analysis of the territory, recognition and characterization of stone, natural and synthetic elements (ceramic products, mortars and plasters, mixtures, artificial stone, and composite products); identification of the causes of transformation and degradation processes due to intrinsic characteristics and interaction with the environment.
Architectural style and constructive features of specialist historic buildings (20 hours present)
Understanding architectural style and syntactic features of historic special buildings. The analysis of construction techniques (overt and hidden) is also aimed to understanding formative processes referred to the historic tissue as a whole. Didactic methods
- During the first part of the course, the students will be asked to carry out the following operational phases:
1) surveying and restitution of the building organism in its current state;
2) recovery of existing historiographic, bibliographic, graphic and photographic sources;
3) morphological and typological reading of the building organism at different scales, by "direct" or "indirect" deduction through documentation (historical registers, etc.);
4) identification of the materials and construction techniques that characterize the historic special buildings;
5) characterization of the existing instability and interpretation of the kinematic motion;
6) critical evaluation of the possibilities of recovery of the existing historic building from various points of view, considered organically: structural, functional, and figurative;
7) critical evaluation of the possibilities of reintegration of the urban fabric gaps.
The second part of the course will be characterized by the drafting of the project for the recovery of the historic built heritage as a whole also with reference to the possibilities of reintegration of the existing urban gaps. The drafting of the related technical documents will be scheduled, starting from a definition at a preliminary / final level, up to any executive details. The didactic purpose is, in fact, to prepare the student for the profession. Learning assessment procedures
- The verification of learning of the training objectives, preliminary to the certification of suitability, will take place throughout the teaching activity, through precise checks on presence and the quantity and quality of the work produced, according to pre-established criteria made known to the students.
The final evaluation of everything produced during the workshop and the certification of suitability will be held at the end of the didactic activity and in any case not before the work progress has reached a sufficient degree of articulation and completeness attesting to the student's actual ability to conclude the work quickly for the thesis discussion.
To pass the final exam, students are required to correctly present and discuss the following documents:
- reasoned bibliography;
- archival research;
- relief drawings at different scales;
- tables of analysis of the actual condition and representation of degradation;
- tables of analysis of the cracks and characterization of the kinematic movements; - preliminary design of the recovery project;
- overall work index. Reference texts
- Gianfranco Caniggia, Gian Luigi Maffei, Composizione architettonica e tipologia edilizia. 1: Lettura dell'edilizia di base, Venice 1979
Gian Luigi Maffei, Mattia Maffei, Lettura dell'edilizia speciale, Florence 2011
Arnaldo Bruschi, Introduzione alla storia dell'architettura. Considerazioni sul metodo e sulla storia degli studi, Milan 2009.
