FINAL SYNTHESIS STUDIO - LABORATORY B
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2016/2017
- Teacher
- RITA FABBRI
- Credits
- 23
- Didactic period
- Annualità Singola
Training objectives
- The laboratory represents the last educational experience of the course studies in Architecture, where the thesis project accomplishes a progress level almost complete. The learning activities aim at giving the methodological and operational tools required for an approach focused on the restoration of particularly interesting buildings, with specific regards to the Twentieth Century architecture.
Breadth of Knowledge
The main knowledge acquired will be:
- the methodology for the comprehension of historical construction phases of buildings;
- the analysis of distributive and structural typologies;
- the identification of the constructions materials and the technological solutions applied, focussing on the buildings of the 20th century;
- the recognition of weathering causes, processes and morphologies affecting different material classes;
- the documentation of the most current experiences and theoretical positions within the restoration discipline.
Study skills
The main skills (i.e. the students ability applying the erudition acquired) will be:
- the critic correlation of information for the historical and constructive analysis of the building, in its several stages;
- the proper assessment of the load bearing structures behaviour and the manifestations of its possible failures;
- the interpretation and the appropriate graphic arrangement of the building conservation status, with regards to both the materials used (and related finishes) and the weathering morphologies;
- the identification of the proper intervention strategies regarding the conservation issues identified on different scales, such as the insertion in the urban context, the detail of the constructive element;
- the autonomous arrangement of the restoration project according to its various descriptive and graphic declinations, in compliance with the characteristics and the vocations of use in the buildings through the design of new insertions, as well. Prerequisites
- The students’ admission to the examination is subject to their passing of the exams:
- Laboratory of Monuments restoration.
The students’ skills must have acquired and assimilated the information resulting by the prerequisite courses of “Construction Science” and “Laboratory of Monuments Restoration”:
- basic concepts of structural analysis;
- comprehension of the structural attitude with regards to the construction technologies and materials;
- basic knowledge for the analysis of building events;
- basic knowledge of materials and related weathering pathologies;
- basic knowledge for the representation of the building conservation status;
- basic knowledge of the arrangement of the restoration project. Course programme
- Various teaching modules, mutually complementary and closely related, compose the Laboratory for a total of 216 hours of lectures. The contents, agreed among the lecturers by an offer focussed on 20th-century architecture, are useful to acquire the knowledge necessary for the arrangement of the restoration project, in its complexity and articulation. On the occasion of specific monuments, the activities will take place at the simultaneous presence of some lecturers (seminar discussions, site visits and guided tours, final workshop) in order to endorse the integration of contents.
Restoration (96 hours, class delivery lectures)
The theoretical basis of building protection; analysis and comprehension of subjects in their chronological complexity and figurative, material and construction consistency; diagnosis of weathering phenomena and methods for enhancing restoration and structural strengthening of the 20th-century architecture; assessment of the adequacy of the restoration project with regards to the constitutive character of the building and the vocations of use in its different parts.
Architectural restoration projects (40 hours, class delivery lectures)
Comprehension of the building organism at the different scales levels, concerning the settlement planes too; critic analysis of the aspects of the constructive, functional, morpho-typological and formal kind, on the correct attribution of use in the restoration project; evaluation of the restoration project feasibility.
Historic building conservation (40 hours, class delivery lectures)
Twentieth-century architectural typologies, functional and material obsolescence issues; analysis of the environmental parameters and the form of use that affect constructions; assessment of restoration products impact on historical materials; techniques for the conservation and restoration of materials utilized in the architecture of the Twentieth-century.
Weathering and diagnosis of historic buildings materials (20 hours, class delivery lectures)
Recognition and characterization of the stone-like elements, natural and artificial (ceramic products, mortars and plasters, pastes, artificial stones, composite products); extraction technologies and installation of natural and artificial stone materials; recognition and characterization of transformation products, also related to the weathering and degradation processes; identification of the causes in the transformation and degradation processes caused by both intrinsic characteristics and the interaction with the environment.
The history of the construction techniques (20 hours, class delivery lectures)
The history of architecture outlines in relation to structures, materials, and constructed forms through the most significant works of the Twentieth-century in Italy and the main steps of the architectural debate, in the context of the progressive transformation of the building yard in the 20th-century, with references to the European framework as well. Didactic methods
- Lectures, restoration tasks on the subject of the Twentieth-century architecture, seminars discussions aimed at the analysis of the suggested buildings typologies and the illustration of the thesis already discussed, characterize the educational activities. Site visits and guided tours will be organized for specific construction issues of the Twentieth century, and the participation in the events of the Restoration Fair of Ferrara will be encouraged. A final workshop for the development of the thesis will be organized with all teachers.
Learning assessment procedures
- The assessment of learning outcomes, preliminary to the attestation of eligibility, will take place throughout the whole course of the academic activity, with precise controls of the student attendance, the quantity, and quality of the work produced according to predetermined criteria made known to the students. In the classroom, the analysis and restoration project that will be arranged for the most accurate and comprehensive articulation of the intervention will be promptly discussed, gradually processing from the historical analysis and the survey phases through the interpretation of weathering conditions and the description of the projects strategies with regards to the characteristics and problems of the building.
At the end of the didactic activity, and in any case not before the level of advancement of the work has reached a degree of sufficient articulation and completeness certifying the actual capacity of the student to complete the work in a very short time for the final dissertation, will take place the final evaluation of the overall product during the laboratory, with the consequent release of the attestation of eligibility.
In order to pass the final examination, students have to present accurately and discuss the following documents:
- referenced bibliography;
- synthesis of the archival research;
- photographic documentation and photo-mosaics;
- graphic layout of the historical analysis;
- graphic layout of the analysis of the state of conservation and the weathering representation;
- the preliminary setting of the restoration project;
- overall contents of work. Reference texts
- - P.G. Bardelli, E. Filippi, E. Garda (editors), Curare il moderno. I modi della tecnologia, Venezia 2002
- G. Biscontin e G. Driussi (editors), Architettura e materiali del Novecento. Conservazione, restauro, manutenzione, atti del convegno di studi (Bressanone 13-16 luglio 2004), Marghera-Venezia 2004
- A. Canziani (editors), Conservare l’architettura. Conservazione programmata per il patrimonio architettonico del XX secolo, Milano 2009
With particular reference to the thesis subject, additional materials and bibliography will be provided during class and independently identified by students.
