Building engineering and architecture

The course of "Projects for Building Renovation and Restoration" is aimed at preparing students to understand and manage the various problems that characterize building-architectural intervention on the historical building heritage. These problems are: on the one hand, those related to the use and maintenance of buildings, and on the other hand, those pertaining to the recovery and renovation of the building organism in cases of decay of use or advanced physical deterioration. From the perspective of the building process and the life cycle of buildings, one engages in prefiguring and evaluating the resources to be expended and the actions to be taken to conserve and enhance resources already expended at other stages of the process, either at the time of construction or in the transformations already undergone by the building object. The teaching is geared toward providing the student with methodologies and notions that will enable him or her to approach the project of building rehabilitation with critical capacities towards the choices to be made in the conservation/modification of the existing building heritage. the course, included among the teachings of the final year, making use of the foundations already acquired by the students in previous courses (particularly the courses in technical architecture, architectural surveying, architectural history and building technology), first and foremost guides them to the analysis and understanding of the historic building organism, with a field of interest ranging from the minor architecture that makes up the diffuse building fabric of historic city centers to the now-historicized architecture of 19th- and 20th-century industrial settlements. In order to do this, the course, which is included among the teachings of the final year, making use of the foundations already acquired by the students in previous courses (particularly the courses in technical architecture, architectural surveying, architectural history and construction technology), first and foremost guides them to the analysis and understanding of the historic building organism, with a field of interest ranging from the minor architecture that makes up the diffuse building fabric of historic centers to the now historicized architecture of the industrial settlements of the 19th and 20th centuries. The proposed methodology is that of design that makes use of an inductive-deductive procedure; it is a design line, therefore, that proceeds from the particular to the general and then descends again to the particular having identified the logics and rules that will govern the new arrangement of the building organism. The lectures are therefore directed to explore on the one hand the renovation project and the recovery process on the other hand the materials and techniques of tradition, their degradation and rehabilitation interventions. The lectures are therefore divided into four sections: Sec. I_ INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY AND INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE. Methods and techniques for the rehabilitation of brownfield sites. Critical building, environmental, urban and spatial issues Levels of rehabilitation: from maintenance to renovation Pre-modern and modern techniques in industrial and basic construction Sec. II_Techniques and problems of industrialized construction. Building systems, procedures and components. Residential construction Historic masonry Steel Historic reinforced concrete Sec. III_The Rehabilitation Project. Tools and procedures for diagnosis. Intervention techniques for the rehabilitation and consolidation of masonry and reinforced concrete. Sec. IV_The Building Renovation Project. Structure and architecture The building renovation project

The course, which is included among the teachings of the final year, making use of the foundations already acquired by the students in previous courses (particularly the courses in technical architecture, architectural surveying, architectural history and building technology), first and foremost guides them to the analysis and understanding of the historic building organism, with a field of interest ranging from the minor architecture that makes up the diffuse building fabric of historic centers to the now-historicized architecture of 19th- and 20th-century industrial settlements.

PRRE: Slides of the lessons, Resumes of the professor, Giorgio Torraca, Lectures on materials. Science for architectural restoration. 2015 US the Getty Institute Francesco Giovannetti Manuale del recupero di Città di Castello, DEI: Roma, 1992

The frequency of attendance is not mandatory. Intermediate assessments are scheduled A written-graphic study paper is scheduled to be brought to the exam.

Atelier of building design, Multiple choice testing, drawings discussion