B015351 - RESTORATION WORKSHOP II

Italian

Italian

Italian

The course introduces the methodological aspects of architectural restoration, with particular reference to listed buildings, and aims to provide the students with basic knowledge on drawing up a restoration project.
Process of restoration design
- The Italian context. Legislative framework, public administration in charge, tools for architectural protection, e.g.;
Core elements on conservation project
- Uses and compatibilities with new functions;
Peculiarities of the work site on conservation

The course is aimed at providing the necessary knowledge to operate competently in the protection and restoration of the architectural heritage for the students the fundamental objectives of study as are as follows: sort of discipline of restoration; applications and methods of intervention for conservation of materials e for structural improvement; procedural process and drafting of specifications; organization of construction site for restoration; urban and archaeological restoration.

Beni culturali, Materiali lapidei naturali ed artificiali, Descrizione della forma di alterazione - Termini e definizioni, UNI 11182, aprile 2006;
G.Rocchi,Istituzioni di restauro architettonico dei beni architettonici e ambientali,Hoepli,Milano,1990;
G. Carbonara, Trattato di restauro architettonico, UTET, Torino, 1996;
C. Montagni, Materiali per il restauro e la manutenzione, UTET, Torino, 1999;
Manuale del Restauro Architettonico, Mancosu, Roma, 2002;
S.F.Musso, Tecniche di restauro architettonico, in II vol.,U.T.E.T.,Torino,2013;
And other texts in the course will be provided.

The reference is divided into two parts: A) Author’s educational handouts; B) Essential bibliography
A) Educational handouts
G.A. Centauro, Piano del colore del centro storico di Prato, Voll. 2 – Lalli Ed., Poggibonsi 1998.
G.A. Centauro (a cura di), Tecnologie e conservazione degli apparati pittorici e del colore nell’edilizia storica, Opus Studorium (da ora O.S.)/ 1, Poggibonsi, Lalli Ed., 2008.
G.A. Centauro, Il restauro delle pitture murali scoperte in palazzo Gini a Prato, Poggibonsi, O.S/ 2, Lalli Ed., 2008.
G.A. Centauro et alii,, Progetto Colore del Parco Nazionale delle Cinque Terre, OPUS ST. 3, Poggibonsi, Lalli Ed., 2008.
G.A. Centauro, Materiali e colori del centro storico di Firenze, Firenze- Milano 2008.
G.A. Centauro, Per il restauro del territorio e del paesaggio antropico dei Monti della Calvana. L’Architettura in pietra di San Leonardo in Collina, O.S./ 4, Poggibonsi, Lalli Ed., ,2010.
G.A. Centauro, L’Aquila. Studi e rilievi per la ricostruzione post-sisma del6 Aprile 2009, L’Aquila, Portofranco Ed., 2010.
G.A. Centauro et alii, Centro Storico di Firenze. Metodologie ed applicazioni di restauro nella manutenzione dei fronti edilizi urbani, O.S/ 5, Poggibonsi, Lalli Ed., 2011.
G.A. Centauro, Laboratorio Restauro. Scritti vari e lezioni (1977/83 –2012) DI Giuseppe A. Centauro, O.S./ 6, Poggibonsi, Lalli Ed., 2012. - G.A. Centauro, N.C. Grandin, Il restauro del colore in Architettura, Edifir, Firenze 2013.
G.A. Centauro, Sant’Orsola. Percorsi di ricerca per la valorizzazione, O.S./7, Poggibonsi, Lalli Ed., 2014.
G.A. Centauro, La Cappella dei Magi. Il colore per la conservazione museale, O.S./ 8, Poggibonsi, Lalli Ed., 2014.
G.A. Centauro et alii, Lineamenti per il restauro postsismico del costruito storico in Abruzzo, Piano di Ricostruzione di Casentino (AQ), DEI-Tipografia del Genio Civile, 2014.
G.A. Centauro, Gli studi per il recupero del Parco Pubblico delle Cascine di Tavola, in Recupero e valorizzazione del Parco delle Cascine di Tavola. Cascine Medicee di Prato. Conservazione e restauro. Attività di laboratorio per il restauro ambientale (2007/2015), a cura di G.A. Centauro, O.S/ 9”, Lalli Ed., Poggibonsi, 2015
G.A. Centauro, Conservazione e valorizzazione dei beni paesaggistici dell’Isola d’Elba, il Progetto Colore per la valorizzazione del Lungomare marinese, Il colore protagonista del paesaggio antropico, I processi di riqualificazione urbana di Marciana Marina. Il progetto “da torre a Torre”, in Conservazione e valorizzazione dei beni paesaggistici dell’Isola d’Elba. Progetto Colore del Lungomare di Marciana Marina. Piano Particolareggiato e Normativa Tecnica, a cura di G.A. Centauro, O.S/10, Lalli Ed., Poggibonsi, 2015.
G.A. Centauro, Un Parco per le Cascine Medicee di Prato. Conservazione e restauro, (volume monografico collettaneo), DIDA, Firenze 2016, Ivi, cfr. “Gli Studi per il recupero del Parco Pubblico delle Cascine di Tavola”, Pacini Ed. , Pisa pp. 13-37
G.A. Centauro, A. Bacci, Approccio conoscitivo e metodologie di lettura delle strutture architettoniche medioevali. Le indagini metrologiche per il Castello dell’Imperatore di Prato, in Atti del Convegno “RICerca REStauro”, Sez. 2A Conoscenza dell’edificio: metodo e contenuti (a cura di Alberto Grimoldi), Roma, Quasar, pp. 469-480, 2017
G.A. Centauro, L’Officina aretina del restauro, in “Brigata Aretina degli Amici dei Monumenti: Centodieci anni dalla fondazione” Bollettino d’Informazione, 99 - 2017 – Anno LIX, , Arezzo, Letizia Editore, 2017.
G.A. Centauro, Progetto HECO (Heritage Colors). Metodologie Analisi Sintesi Apparati. Valutazione d’impatto sul sito UNESCO “Centro Storico di Firenze”, (a cura di Giuseppe Alberto Centauro e Carlo Francini), Firenze DIDA Press, 2017.
G.A. Centauro, Esperienze di conservazione e restauro. Didattica, ricerca, gestione dati e progetto, (a cura di Giuseppe Alberto Centauro), Firenze DIDA Press, 2020.
B) Essential bibliography
Istituto Centrale del Restauro, Raccomandazioni NORMAL 20/85 Interventi conservativi: progettazione, esecuzione. Valutazione preventiva, Roma, 1985.
Istituto Centrale del Restauro, Raccomandazioni NORMAL 1/88 Alterazioni macroscopiche dei materiali lapidei, Roma 1988.
A. Conti, Storia del restauro e della conservazione delle opere d’arte, Electa, Milano1988.
M. Matteini, A. Moles, La chimica nel restauro. I materiali dell’arte pittorica, Nardini, Firenze 1989.
G. Rocchi, Istituzioni di restauro dei beni architettonici e ambientali, Hoepli, Milano 1985 (vedi 2a ed. Hoepli, Milano, 1990).
L. Marino, Il rilievo per il restauro, Hoepli, Milano, 1990.
G. Tampone, Il restauro del legno, 2 voll,, Nardini, Firenze 1990.
P. Roselli, Restaurare la città, oggi, in “Quaderni di studi e documenti per la storia e la conservazione delle strutture urbane e territoriali/7 (a cura di P. Roselli)”, Alinea, Firenze 1991.
F. Gurrieri, Restauro e conservazione. Carte del Restauro. Norme. Convenzioni e Mozioni sul patrimonio architettonico e artistico, Edizioni Polistampa, Firenze, 1992.
U. Menicali, I materiali dell'edilizia storica, tecnologia e impiego dei materiali tradizionali, Nuova Italia Scientifica, Roma, 1992. - G. Tampone, Il restauro delle strutture di legno, Hoepli, Milano 1996.
P. Marconi (a cura), Manuale del Recupero della Città di Palermo, Flaccovio, Palermo, 1997.
F. Giovanetti (a cura), Manuale del Recupero del Comune di Città di Castello, DEI, Roma, 1998.
G. Carbonara (a cura di), Trattato di restauro architettonico, voll. 9, UTET, Torino, 1996-2007.
G. Carbonara, Atlante del Restauro, 2 voll., UTET, Torino 2004.
AA.VV. Manuale per la riabilitazione e la ricostruzione post sismica degli edifici (a cura di F. Gurrieri), DEI, Roma 1999.
B. Zevi (a cura), Manuale del Restauro Architettonico, Roma 2000.
S. Franceschi, L. Germani, Manuale operativo per il restauro architettonico, DEI, Roma 2003.
F. Torrisi (a cura di), Manuale del Recupero. Centri storici della Provincia di Ascoli Piceno, Fast Edit, Acquaviva Picena (AP), s.d. (2005).
S. Musso, G. Franco, Guida agli interventi di recupero dell’edilizia diffusa nel Parco Nazionale delle Cinque Terre, Marsilio, 2006.

The course is aimed at providing the necessary knowledge to operate competently in the protection and restoration of the architectural heritage. In particular, for the students the fundamental objectives of the study are as follows.
Knowledge and understanding: the course focuses on providing the conceptual tools, the general framework of the methodological problems and of the technical-scientific means, which are useful in the disciplinary and interdisciplinary knowledge to approach historical buildings. In particular:
The Lab of Architectural Restoration aims at providing students with the methods and tools of analysis to operate in heritage buildings according to conservation principles.
Application of the knowledge and understanding achieved: the course is addressed to provide students with the following disciplinary skills: knowledge of the disciplinary fundamentals in an interdisciplinary framework, the ability to organise and to lead a campaign of investigation and specific surveys, the ability to produce exhaustive documentary materials; to apply the knowledge gained to the development of a diagnostic project on the historical building, both in the professional and in the study fields.
Capacity of independent judgment: the goal is to provide the critical tools needed to draw up a diagnostic praxis aimed at the intervention of conservation, which is aware of the specific features that each artifact has from large to small scale, from the problems of the decay of materials to those of the stability of the structures.
Learning skills: the course intends to ensure and verify the assimilation of the basic knowledge of the discipline, the ability to collect and to interpret data, and the ability to integrate knowledge and to direct the complexities independently, including those about interdisciplinary work environments.
Communication skills: to provide the students with the tools for transmission of the results using texts and drawings, especially in relation to the professional field.

To acquire knowledge of the culture of restoration, from the theoretical projects of 19th century via the declarations of principle of the Restoration Charters. To the latest expressions of restoration culture for the conservation of historic buildings, both ancient and modern, urban centres, historic gardens, archaeological heritage, territory and landscape. To learn techniques for surveying and graphical representation – manual and computerised – of buildings and places of historic and artistic interest, including the knowledge and use of highly advanced techniques (lase-scanner and similar).
To understand the importance of analysing buildings though historical research and the analysis of original sources, direct investigation of structures, structural surveying, conventional and digital photographic documentation, non-destructive surveys with a high technology content (Thermographic, georadar, etc.).
To learn to read the forms of degradation and impairment in buildings and in the territorial areas under examination codes, using traditional and computerised methods, as an integral part of conservation project.
To acquire skills for surveying the materials of historic architecture, how they are worked and used, and how they behave over time. Special emphasis is placed on analysing materials: stone, wood, simple and complex masonry and more recent reinforced concrete and modern meta materials.
To learn how to prepare a restoration project throughout all the phases of the project, from the survey to the potential restoration approaches, from structural consolidation to proposals for reusing disuses complexes. To prepare for checking regulations and laws governing the technological upgrading of historic architecture in a manner compatible with the existing structures and to learn the technical and bureaucratic procedures for drawing up a restoration project in modern times.
To be aware of the complexity and uniqueness of restoration issues, particularly in relation to the delicate balance between old and new architecture, old and new materials, and the general issue of contemporary addition while understanding a place’s identity, and the requirements of conservation versus free expression.
To acquire a knowledge and direct experience of the manifold topics and issues arising on a restoration site.

Have passed the examination of Restoration Workshop I

The lab is organised with a series of classroom lessons in which the above arguments are illustrated.
Both the project on the building which was studied in the Restoration Lab I and the specification works are planned. The designs of students will be checked in the Lab.
In addition to the lessons, visits to buildings and, when possible, visits to construction sites are planned, in order to introduce students to the problems caused by the concrete works in architectural restoration and by the organization of the worksite itself.

The teaching of the course involves, in addition to the normal ex-cathedra lessons, class exercises and to the Florentine buildings and monuments. In the context of the Lab, individually or in the small groups, a survey of the architecture is made by the students which is aimed at the restoration project, for conservation and functional rehabilitation into a Case Study.

the review of the works will take place online due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19)

For admission to the final examination the students must complete the project in continuity with the one already prepared for the Restoration Lab I, and the following documents:
- Photo documentation;
- Descriptive report of the intervention criteria adopted, in the legislative framework, the functions take into account their compatibility with the existing building;
- Drawings of the restoration project, with the survey and project;
- Thematic drawings on interventions for materials conservation;
- Surveys relating to specific solutions adopted for structural problems;
- Surveys relating to the specific plant engineering solutions;
- Specification work for planned interventions;
The final exam will consist in the discussion on the students work, written and drawn, which are made on the subject agreed with the teacher during the activities of Restoration Lab II; the topics dealt with in the institutional course will be faced in this test too. This test will be evaluated by a final mark.

The students must have completed the theoretical and practical training, and the exercise to get admittance to final exam, producing the papers of technical specifications into a Case Study, as well as the papers produced for Restoration Workshop I. The students works will be completed and delivered at fixed dates. The project documents will be provided during activities.

The course introduces the methodological aspects of architectural restoration, with particular reference to listed buildings, and aims to provide the students with basic knowledge on drawing up a restoration project.
Process of restoration design
- The Italian context. Legislative framework, public administration in charge, tools for architectural protection, e.g.;
- The parties involved, the procedures of the project, elements of the project;
- Presentation of the project to the protection authority;
Core elements on conservation project
- Uses and compatibilities with new functions;
- The operating limitations between building features and legislative protection;
- Diagnosis and intervention proposal for materials and structures: alternative solutions; invasiveness and reversibility;
- Modern materials in conservation;
Dampness: diagnosis and interventions
Peculiarities of the work site on conservation
- Provisional works and emergency interventions
The structural issue
- Investigations and improvement measures
- Earthquakes and seismic vulnerability
- The structures before and after working
The plan engineering adaptation
The maintenance programme
Evaluation and economic management of the restoration project
- Specification, accounting of the work, list of prices
Restoration of archaeological sites
Interventions in old towns

The issues of deepening concern the diagnostic of restoration design in architectural, setting the functional and structural project, conservation project and enhancement of cultural heritage.