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

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 takes place in the early part of the year, with ex cathedra lessons, which can be integrated with specialized seminars. In the second half of the year the acquired knowledge they are put into a system, along with other teachings of the second year of the Graduate School, for the preparation of a project for the restoration and re-use on the case-study.

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.

Other references are given during the lessons

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

LUCINA NAPOLEONE (President)

GIOVANNA FRANCO

LESSONS

LESSONS START

Novembre 2016

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy