Università Roma Tre

Course programme
THE COURSE IS GIVEN THROUGH A SYNERGY BETWEEN THREE DIFFERENT BUT COMPLEMENTARY DISCIPLINES SUCH AS RESTORATION, DESIGN AND STRENGTH OF MATERIALS THAT WILL ARISE IN RELATION TO A COMMON THEME: THE STUDY AND INTERPRETATION OF THE EXISTING CITY.
KNOWLEDGE OF THE CITY IS ACHIEVED BY MEANS OF QUESTIONS ABOUT ITS COMPOSITION, ITS HISTORY, ITS BECOMING; BY MEANS OF INTERDISCIPLINARY THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL RESEARCH ABOUT THE ENHANCEMENT OF THE EXISTING CITY.
IN THE COURSE WILL BE DISCUSSED ABOUT THE CHARACTER TRAINING, TYPOLOGICAL AND CONSTRUCTIONAL OF THE HISTORIC CITY AND THEN UP TO THE SCALE OF THE BUILDING AND ITS CONSTRUCTION CHARACTERISTICS, SO AS TO DEEPEN THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF TECHNOLOGICAL COMPONENTS AND STRUCTURAL OF THE PRE-MODERN HERITAGE.
THERE WILL BE A PRACTICAL EXERCISE ON A GIVEN TOPIC THAT WILL BE DEVELOPED AT DIFFERENT REPRESENTATION SCALES: IT WILL COVER INITIALLY THE ENTIRE HISTORIC CENTER OF ROME DOWN TO THE SIZE OF NEIGHBORHOOD AND A SINGLE STREET.
THROUGH THIS PROJECT, STUDENTS WILL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO TEST THE ABILITY OF INTERPRETATION AND READING OF HISTORICAL BUILDINGS: STARTING FROM THE ARCHITECTURAL SURVEY AND THE SUBSEQUENT CRITICAL AND PHILOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE HISTORIC CENTER OF ROME, IN ORDER TO ACQUIRE THE METHODOLOGY FOR A CORRECT INTERVENTION OF RECOVERY, TRANSFORMATION OR RESTORATION.

Didactic Methods
THE COURSE IS DEVELOPED WITH LECTURES EX CATHEDRA, VISITS AND INSPECTIONS, DEBATES.
DURING THE WEEKLY MEETINGS PART OF THE TIME AVAILABLE WILL BE DEVOTED TO A "LABORATORY" IN WHICH THERE WILL BE GRAPHIC TUTORIALS, REVIEWS, THEMATIC ANALYSIS IN THE PRESENCE OF TEACHERS WHO WILL PROVIDE PRACTICAL EXPLANATIONS FROM TIME TO TIME ON THE EXERCISES TO BE PERFORMED.
THE PERIODIC REVIEW OF THE PROJECTS, EXERCISES, TRIALS, IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE LEARNING PATH.
MID-TERM EVALUATIONS ARE FORESEEN TOGETHER WITH LECTURES AND LABORATORY. STUDENT'S ATTENDANCE IS REQUIRED.

Learning assessment procedures
THE EXAMINATION CONSISTS IN THE DISCUSSION AND EVALUATION OF THE ASSIGNMENTS AND DRAWINGS GRADUALLY DEVELOPED DURING THE COURSE AND THE PRESENTATION OF A "NOTEBOOK" CONTAINING ALL THE EXERCISES MADE IN THE CLASSROOM, AT HOME AND OUTSIDE.

G.CANGI: “MANUALE DEL RECUPERO STRUTTURALE ANTISISMICO”, EDIZIONI DEI, ROMA 2005.
A.GIUFFRÉ: LETTURE SULLA MECCANICA DELLE MURATURE STORICHE, EDIZIONI KAPPA, ROMA 1991.
A.GIUFFRÉ: LA MECCANICA NELL’ARCHITETTURA, LA NUOVA ITALIA SCIENTIFICA, ROMA 1986.