Università Roma Tre

Course programme
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.

Project exercise
The structure selected for the case planning studies will be a pre-modern residential building in the historic centre of Rome or a major residence (manor house, casale) of the agricultural regions near Rome (the Campagna Romana).

Documentation relative to the structure will be provided at the course outset. Course instructors and teaching assistants will guide an appropriate series of survey visits for single students and small groups (maximum 3 individuals). The students will be responsible for preparation of a Project for Reuse, including the following components:
a) Sets of overall measured and analytical drawings showing the most significant construction phases;
b) Drawings and demonstrated comprehension of the pre-modern construction techniques for walls, horizontal structural elements, roofs, exterior and interior finishes;
c) A project for architectural-functional reorganisation and compatible reuse of the historic Roman building, taking an approach of consolidative formation/transformation;
d) Structural plans suited to achievement of the project, including the application of pre-modern construction traditions as identified during the documentation phase of the study.

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 GOAL OF THE WORKSHOP IS TO RESTORATION B to mature IN STUDENT ARCHITECT THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF PROJECT OF CONSERVATION
STUDENTS OR GROUPS OF STUDENTS WILL DEVELOP A PLAN OF CONSERVATION AND USE OF ARCHITECTURAL MONUMENT
THE EVALUATION OF THE PROJECT WILL BE 'MADE DURING THE COURSE OF INDIVIDUAL PHASES Judging (SURVEY ANALYSIS HISTORICAL PRESERVATION PROJECT OF MATERIALS AND CONSOLIDATION OF STRTTURE) THE TRIAL WILL END OF YEAR' ISSUED ON ALL THE PROJECT TOGETHER.
THE PRESENCE IS REQUESTED TO LESSONS AND THE KNOWLEDGE OF BASIC BIBLIOGRAPHY

C. FEIFFER, "LA CONSERVAZIONE DELLE SUPERFICI INTONACATE; IL METODO E LE TECNICHE", MILANO, SKIRA, 1997.
C. FEIFFER, "IL PROGETTO DI CONSERVAZIONE", MILANO, ANGELI, 1989.

The course aims to provide students with a methodological path to face, with full awareness, the restoration of buildings with historical-architectural or archaeological value. This will be done through single or group exercises carried out on multi-layered buildings dating back to different historical periods (from Roman times to twentieth-century buildings).
Particular attention will be given to preliminary investigations: from historical and documentary analysis, to researches aimed at understanding both the materiality of the building and the factors of decay. Topics related to the choices - inherent to the conservation of the material, the restoration, the reintegration of the image, the use of compatible materials and techniques - will also be addressed: all operations guided by a project that does not exclude contemporary addition, understood as part of an historical process not concluded but, on the contrary, in continuous evolution.

C. Ceschi, Teoria e Storia del restauro, Bulzoni, Roma 1970.
G. Carbonara, Trattato di restauro architettonico, Utet, Torino 1996.

theoretical lessons and project exercises will be aimed at the understanding of the pre-moderne constructive techniques and technologies and to the their possible re-use within the project of restauration

F.Giovanetti (ed.): Manuale del recupero del comune di Roma, edizioni dei, Roma 1997.
F. Geremia, M. Zampilli, Casali della campagna romana. Esperienze di ricerca per la didattica, Aracne editrice Roma, 2013.

The module addresses the issues related to the study of the architectural study with historical-critical.
The module is the deepening of the methodology of analysis of pre-existing historical preparatory to the restoration.
The historic building will be studied through the direct analysis and archival research, documentary and bibliographical and historical iconography.
We will therefore pay particular attention: the technical character of historical buildings , the different phases of construction, the metrological analysis, typological comparisons.
Illustrative examples will be shown to the students acquire the basic vocabulary and analytical method in reading of architecture, most useful for a correct restoration and conservation project.

G. Carbonara, Trattato di restauro architettonico, voll.4, Utet, Torino 2001; in particolare vol. 1-2.
C. Feiffer, Il progetto di conservazione, Angeli, Milano 1989.
Some chapters of:
L. Baratin, O. Muratore, M. Acierno (edited by), Instruments and methods for Cultural
Heritage conservation and valorisation, presentation G. Carbonara, Gabbiano edizioni, Ancona 2012.
C. Bellanca (edited by), Methodical approach to the restoration of historic architecture, Alinea, Firenze 2011.
For individual topics will be given specific bibliography.

TECHNIQUES AND INSTRUMENTS BASIC FOR ARCHITECTURAL SURVEY AND ITS GRAPHICAL RESTITUTION FOR THE KNOWLEDGE OF BUILDINGS, THEIR LANGUAGE AND STATE OF PRESERVATION. SURVEY, THEN, AIMS TO IDENTIFY THE ORIGINAL FORMAL DESIGN WORK AND ITS PARTS, ITS MEASURES, AND LINGUISTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF COLOR THAT COMPOSE IT, THE BUILDING TECHNIQUES USED, THE POSSIBLE CHANGES THAT THE LAYERS AND THE HISTORICAL TIME HAS MADE, DECORATIVE AND CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS PRESENT AND THEIR DEGREE OF DETERIORATION .... BASIC PRINCIPLES: OBSERVATION, MEASUREMENT, ANALYSIS AND REPRESENTATION OF ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENTS. ORDERS, ARCHITECTURAL MOULDINGS, FORM, PROPORTION, GEOMETRY, UNITS OF MEASURE IN ARCHITECTURE .... TOOLS AND METHODS FOR DIRECT AND INDIRECT SURVEYING. TRILATERATION AND TRIANGULATION FOR THE PLANIMETRIC AND ELEVATION DETECT....

C. BEDONI, I LUOGHI DEL DISEGNO, CITTÀ STUDI EDIZIONI, MILANO 1996;
M. DOCCI, D. MAESTRI, STORIA DEL RILEVAMENTO ARCHITETTONICO E URBANO, LATERZA, ROMA BARI 2008;
M. DOCCI, D. MAESTRI, MANUALE DI RILEVAMENTO ARCHITETTONICO E URBANO, LATERZA, ROMA BARI 2008;
THE LITERATURE ON VARIOUS TOPICS OF THE LECTURES AND EXERCISES WILL BE SUGGESTED DURING THE COURSE.

The module aims to provide students with the theoretical bases / practices to develop a major project and address the survey operations recognizing, for different contexts, such as operational methods are more suitable. The survay, in fact, intended as a form of knowledge of an architectural work in all its aspects (formal, constructive, spatial), it will be time discretization of the existing and must make use of different methods of investigation.It will focus also on the verification of the acquisition of the ability to comparison / integration of data resulting from operations of measure and the historical record.

M. Docci, D. Maestri, Storia del rilevamento architettonico e urbano,LATERZA, Roma Bari 2008
M. Docci, D. Maestri, Manuale di rilevamento architettonico e urbano, LATERZA, Roma Bari 2008

During the course we will be given specific books according to the depth chosen

We will investigate topics relating to the measure theory and main episodes in the history of the survey will mentioned. Different methods of survey (direct, indirect, integrated) will be discussed, pointing up that the choice of any method should be based on the type of structure, on the period of construction and on final aim of the survey.
All issues concerning the drawing of the data emerging from the survey will be discussed.
In relation to the topics of the “Laboratorio di Restauro”, the module will consist of lectures and practical activities on-site.

M. Docci, G. Maestri, Manuale di rilevamento architettonico e urbano, Laterza, Bari 2009.
C. Mezzetti (a cura di), La rappresentazione dell'architettura: storia, metodi, immagini, E. Kappa, Roma, 2000
M. Docci, G. Maestri, Storia del rilevamento architettonico e urbano, Laterza, Bari 1993.
C. Cundari (a cura di ), L'immagine del rilievo, Roma, Longanesi Ed., 1992