Università Roma Tre

The course aim is to teach students the basic elements of architectural restoration, as applied to a historic Roman structure situated in a complex historic-architectural context.
The didactic approach has been applied and perfected over a number of years. The objectives are divided in two parts:
a) To develop knowledge and familiarity with traditional Roman architectural language and techniques in pre-modern construction arts as a basis for rational and active conservation of historic structures;
b) To prepare students for the aspects of a future career in architectural restoration which will regularly call on them to make rapid decisions concerning the fabric of historic buildings, without being able to draw on significant finances or resort to long or complex analyses.
In keeping with the teaching context, the study structure selected will be one of architectural-historical significance (but not a major designated monument), with past inappropriate alterations, situated in a low-visibility location and in current use as residences.

The didactic materials provided to the students include measured drawings of the case study structure in .dwg or .jpg format and general and subject-specific bibliographies.
The basic reference text is Manuale del Recupero del Comune di Roma, edited by F. Giovanetti, Edizioni DEI, Rome 1997.

The course proposes the study of an historical building or landscape, urban or extra urban.
Through ex-cathedra lectures, seminars and weekly reviews, the students will be led during the different phases of critical interpretation and philological analysis (knowledge and study of the literature, research in the relevant archives, exegesis of the textual and iconographic sources, direct observation and survey, drawings of the transformation phases, reading of permanence and transformation, interpretative sketches etc.).
Individual or group research is suited to being used as a project tool, useful to build guide lines and specific restoration and enhancement projects.
Lectures and design exercises are carried out with the support of specialized external collaborations (officials of public institutions, businesses and restorers).

- P. Marconi, F. Giovanetti, E. Pallottino (eds.), "Manuale del Recupero del Comune di Roma", DEI, Roma 1989.
- Francesco Giovanetti (ed.), "Manuale del Recupero del Comune di Roma", II edizione ampliata, DEI, Roma 1997.
- S. Poretti (ed.), “Il restauro delle Poste di Libera”, Gangemi, Roma 2005.
- P. Marconi, "Materia e significato. La questione del restauro architettonico", Laterza, Bari 1999.
- E. Pallottino (eds.), "Architetti e archeologi costruttori d’identità", «Ricerche di storia dell'arte», 95, 2008.
- D. Manacorda, R. Santangeli Valenzani, L. Franciosini, E. Pallottino, R. Volpe, S. Picciola, A. Carlini, P. Porretta (eds.), "arch.it.arch - dialoghi di Archeologia e Architettura" - seminari 2005-2006, Quasar, Roma 2009.
- F.R. Stabile, "La Garbatella a Roma. Architettura e regionalismo", Editrice Librerie Dedalo, Roma 2012.
- E. Pallottino (ed.), “Roma, Torre dei Conti. Ricerca, formazione, progetto”, «Ricerche di storia dell'arte», 3, 2012.
- «Territorio», 62, 2012.
- E. Pallottino (ed.), “Sicurezza e identità. Architetti del patrimonio”, «Ricerche di storia dell'arte», 122, 2017
- P. Porretta, “L'invenzione moderna del paesaggio antico della Banditaccia: Raniero Mengarelli a Cerveteri”, Quasar, Roma 2019.

Further bibliographical references related to the main research topics will be suggested during the course.

The course aims to teach students the basic elements of architectural restoration of an element of the Roman historical building fabric in a context with strong historical-architectural stratification.
Students will be offered a case study suitable to represent the historical stratification of the building fabric of the center of Rome and offer the opportunity to decline the analysis from different points of view.
Based on the documentation provided by the course and bibliographic and archival research to be conducted under the guidance of the teaching staff, students, individually or in groups of up to three people, are called to conduct a cognitive/design process including different disciplinary aspects.
Critical-historical analysis - Preliminary activity indispensable to the design is the knowledge of the architectural complex, this consists of three phases: reconstruction of the historical phases of the area on the basis of comparative reading of historical cartography and archival documents; reconstruction of the most significant historical phases in plan and axonometry; "critical" relief with the mapping of materials and "signs" of historical stratifications.
Philological restoration project - The design project will have to provide typological, architectural and functional reorganization on the basis of the consolidated transformation phenomena of Roman historical urban fabric for the purpose of reuse aimed at a compatible destination.
Structural adjustment, with the use of techniques belonging to the pre-modern construction tradition detected in the case of study and compared with those documented by the Manual of Recovery of the City of Rome.

A.P. Frutaz, Le piante di Roma, Istituto di Studi Romani, Roma 1962.
F. Giovanetti (a cura di), Manuale del recupero del Comune di Roma, Roma (DEI) 1997.
F. Doglioni, Stratigrafia e restauro – Tra conoscenza e conservazione dell’architettura, Trieste ED. LINT, 1997.
P. Marconi, Materia e significato. La questione del restauro architettonico, Bari (Laterza) 1999.
F. Geremia, M. Zampilli, Casali della campagna romana. Esperienze di ricerca per la didattica, Aracne editrice Roma, 2013.

The Survey module aims to provide the theoretical and practical knowledge necessary to realize a correct survey of the built: at the scale of the artefact, architecture and the city. The different survey methods - direct, indirect and integrated - and the techniques to be adopted to ensure the correct use of measuring instruments will be exposed. It will also deal with the theory of measurement, methods of analysis of graphic sources and their integration with the information derived from historical documentation.
In order to achieve these objectives, the module provides, together with the activities of the Restoration module, the realization of exercises concerning: the visual survey and the realization of the eidotypes for the survey project, the direct survey and the indirect survey through photogrammetric techniques.

A.P. Frutaz, Le piante di Roma, Istituto di Studi Romani, Roma 1962.
M. Docci, G. Maestri, Storia del rilevamento architettonico e urbano, Laterza, Bari 1993.
R. Migliari, Disegno come modello, Edizioni Kappa, Roma 2004.
M. Docci D. Maestri, Manuale del rilevamento architettonico e urbano, n.e. Laterza Editore, Bari 2009.
L. De Luca, La Fotomodellazione Architettonica, Dario Flaccovio Editore, Palermo 2011.

The integrated course of Survey within the Restoration Laboratory is aimed at providing the basis for the measurement and knowledge of the architectural artefact.

The survey is an indispensable phase to understand and study the architecture to be restored, to touch the wall facings, to check its conservative status through photographic campaigns and analysis on the raised prospectuses.

It is indispensable when it comes to historic buildings the knowledge of construction techniques and of geometric information on the molded and ornamentation apparatus as well. Through direct surveying by means of trilaterations and shooting techniques, students will be able to return the work in question, with particular attention to the accessible areas for direct measurements.

The course will therefore be divided into two phases, the first phase aimed at the knowledge and use of the tools for direct metric survey; the second through photomodeling, a direct heir to photogrammetric survey.

Exercises are planned, with deliveries during the course.

Topics covered:

The detection at sight. The eidotypes and the Relief project.

Direct Tracking Techniques.

RDF for photo-straightening.

Relief aimed at restoration.

The instrumental survey. Techniques and tools.

Use of Photography. The relief from photos.

Introduction to Photoscan

G.Guidi, J.-A. Beraldin, Acquisizione 3D e modellazione poligonale - Dall'oggetto fisico al suo calco digitale, Poli.Design, Milano, 2004.