CARATTERI COSTRUTTIVI DEGLI EDIFICI STORICI
Academic Year 2024/2025 - 4° Year
Teaching Staff: Caterina CAROCCI
Credit Value: 6
Scientific field: ICAR/19 - Architectural restoration
Taught classes: 48 hours
Term / Semester: 2°
Credit Value: 6
Scientific field: ICAR/19 - Architectural restoration
Taught classes: 48 hours
Term / Semester: 2°
Expected Learning Outcomes
The purpose of the course is to provide students with the theoretical and practical notions to understand the historical dimension of buildings of the past through the illustration of methodologies and procedures, including instrumental ones, to correctly address the cognitive and operational problems inherent to the conservation and restoration of architectural heritage.
Course Structure
Lectures are combined with field exercises in application to the topics covered. The specific field of observation is Ortigia in relation above all to the chronological recognition of wall textures, disruptions and stratifications. Students will be called upon to study directly (observation and survey) some portions of buildings, both simple and complex.
Required Prerequisites
Knowledge of architectural history from antiquity to the pre-industrial age
Attendance of Lessons
Attendance, while not compulsory, is highly recommended
Detailed Course Content
Basics of historical building research: archives and sources. Technical masonry culture in pre-modern treatises. The masonry organism: basic buildings, special buildings. Behaviour of masonry construction to the transformations over time (evolution vs. stratifications) and to natural actions (decay and instability). Mechanical interpretation of historical masonry textures. Tools and methods for the study of historical masonry construction
Textbook Information
Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | critical reading of a masonry palimpsest | 5. F. Doglioni |
| 2 | methods for assessing the quality of masonry structures | 4. Giuffrè, C. Carocci, |
| 3 | organism, elements and connections | 3. 1. Cairoli Giuliani; 2. J.B. Adam; C. Carocci |
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
The individual interview aimed at passing the final examination focuses on the verification of learning of the topics covered and the discussion of the exercises carried out.
Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises
- critical reading of a masonry palimpsest;
- methods for assessing the quality of masonry structures;
- concepts of organism, elements and connections in masonry architecture;
- decay and distresses: causes and typical forms;