OVERVIEW

The course aims to provide the specialist knowledge related to the project on the built environment and architecture, both ancient and recent , with particular reference to issues not traditionally addressed in the discipline of Architectural Restoration. At the end of teaching, the student must be able to face and develop, until the executive detail, a design project on an existing architecture.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES (FURTHER INFO)

The course is aimed at understanding :
- the principles and rules of construction of historic building and recent architecture ;
- the forms of degradation and functional deficits , the energy behavior and the consumption of resources ;
- techniques of rehabilitation , consolidation , restoration and energy enhancement .

TEACHING METHODS

The course is organized in close relation with the Restoration Laboratory and constitutes an opportunity to investigate some issues that will emerge from the design exercises .​

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

1 ) Building materials and traditional building techniques: features, performance, degradation and techniques of intervention
2 ) Constructive and architectural features of the twentieth century heritage and maintenance, conservation and rehabilitation techniques
3 ) Possibilities and limits in the energy improvement interventions

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Gianni. V. Galliani, Giorgio Mor (a cura di), Manuale del recupero di Genova antica, DEI, Roma, 2006
G. Franco, Atlante cronologico del Novecento in Italia pagg. 267-301 in AA. VV, Atlante della riqualificazione, UTET, Torino, 2009.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

GIOVANNA FRANCO (President)

STEFANO FRANCESCO MUSSO

LESSONS

LESSONS START

Tuesday 27, September 2016

Class schedule

TECHNOLOGY OF RECOVERY AND RESTORATION

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

The course ends with final oral examination and eventual discussion on the design exercises conducted in the laboratory of Restoration.

Exam schedule