Università Roma Tre

The course offers a methodological approach to deal with the restoration of buildings with historical and architectural or archaeological value. This will be done through individual and group exercises done on multi-layered buildings dating back to different historical periods (from Roman times up to the buildings of the Twentieth century).
Special attention will be placed on the preliminary investigation: historical and documentary research, with the aim to gain knowledge related to the materiality of the building and the factors of degradation. The course also regards different issues related to conservation, restoration, and the use of compatible materials and techniques: operations led by the architectural project, that does not rule out the contemporary architecture, understood as part of a historical process constantly evolving.
The course takes place through three practical exercises, to be drawn up in groups, accompanied by lectures by the teachers, useful for guiding the work.

C. Ceschi, Teoria e Storia del restauro, Bulzoni, Roma 1970.
G. Carbonara, Trattato di restauro architettonico, Utet, Torino 1996.
M. M. Segarra Lagunes, Restauración. Método y proyectos, Editorial técnica Avicam, Granada 2018.

The project of conservation requires diverse phases which are correlated to each other, such as: the metric and geometrical surveys made through photo maps, historical analyses, stratigraphies of materials, structures and the diagnosis of the conservation project. The course aims to give the student the basic tools to realise the entire project. This will be undertaken through theoretical classes and practical exercises. At the end of the course the student will be expected to be able to recognise the diverse materials needed both to define the correct architectural interventions and the most compatible ones. The course aims to sensitise the students to the maintenance and protection of the old materials of the buildings, limiting invasive changes until they become absolutely necessary. For that reason the lessons will go deeper into some of the essential concepts of the culture of restoration: authenticity, stratification, limits, compatibility and the wrong use of materials.

C. Feiffer, “La conservazione delle superfici intonacate; il metodo e le tecniche”, Milano, Skira, 1997.
C. Feiffer, "Il progetto di conservazione", Milano, Angeli, 1989
C. Feiffer,, “pensieriparoleopereomissioni”, Milano, De Lettera wp, 201

During the year, for each theme, you will be provided detailed bibliography.

The course is set in continuity with the didactic experience matured in the preceding years that it has the purpose to teach to the students the fundamental elements of the architectural restauration of an element of Roman historical building in a context with strong historical-architectural stratification.
The case of study for this year is the block included among via delle Botteghe Oscure, via Caetani, via dei Delfini, and via dei Polacchi, where today is the Museum of the Crypta Balbi.
A block whose complexity represents in exemplary way the historical stratification of the building fabric of the Rome historical center and offers the opportunity to decline the investigation under different points of view.
On the bases of the documentation provided by the teacher and of bibliographical and archival searches to be conducted under the teaching staff supervision, the students, organised in groups composed by a maximum of three people, are requested to pursue a cognitive and projectual process facing all the different disciplinary aspects.

 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.
 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.
 D. Esposito, Tecniche costruttive murarie medievali: murature "a tufelli" in area romana, L'Erma di Bretschneider, Roma 1998.
 R. Marta, Tecnica costruttiva a Roma nel Medioevo, Kappa Editore, Roma 1998.
 P. Marconi, Materia e significato. La questione del restauro architettonico, Bari (Laterza) 1999.
 C. Mezzetti (a cura di), La rappresentazione dell'architettura: storia, metodi, immagini, E. Kappa, Roma, 2000
 P. Marconi, Il recupero della bellezza, Milano (Skira) 2005
 M. Docci D. Maestri, Manuale del rilevamento architettonico e urbano, n.e. Laterza Editore, Bari 2009.
 F. Geremia, M. Zampilli, Casali della campagna romana. Esperienze di ricerca per la didattica, Aracne editrice Roma, 2013.

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 goal to be pursued is to ntrodurre knowledge of the architectural language of the Roman tradition and the use of art techniques to build pre-modern as practical for an active and consistent conservation of historic buildings.

General texts
P. Marconi, Materia e significato. La questione del restauro architettonico, Bari (Laterza) 1999.
P. Marconi, Il recupero della bellezza, Milano (Skira) 2005
M. Zampilli, Introduzione alla conoscenza dell’edilizia pre-moderna ed al suo restauro; in: F. Geremia, M. Zampilli, Casali della campagna romana. Esperienze di ricerca per la didattica, Roma (Aracne) 2013.

Recovery manuals and codes of practice
F. Giovanetti (a cura di), Manuale del Recupero del Comune di Roma, Roma (DEI), 1989.
F. Giovanetti (a cura di), Manuale del Recupero di Città di castello, Roma (DEI), 1992
F. Giovanetti (a cura di), Manuale del recupero del Comune di Roma II edizione, Roma (DEI) 1997.
F. Giovanetti (a cura di), Manuale del Recupero del Centro Storico di Palermo, Palermo (Flaccovio) 1997.
A. Giuffrè (a cura di), Sicurezza e conservazione dei centri storici. Il caso Ortigia, Bari (Laterza) 1993.

Method and technique
G. Caniggia, Strutture dello spazio antropico, Firenze (Alinea) 1972.
G. Caniggia, G.L. Maffei, Composizione architettonica e tipologia edilizia. 1. Lettura dell’edilizia di base, Venezia (Marsilio) 1979.

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 goal to be pursued is to ntrodurre knowledge of the architectural language of the Roman tradition and the use of art techniques to build pre-modern as practical for an active and consistent conservation of historic buildings.

General texts
P. Marconi, Materia e significato. La questione del restauro architettonico, Bari (Laterza) 1999.
P. Marconi, Il recupero della bellezza, Milano (Skira) 2005
M. Zampilli, Introduzione alla conoscenza dell’edilizia pre-moderna ed al suo restauro; in: F. Geremia, M. Zampilli, Casali della campagna romana. Esperienze di ricerca per la didattica, Roma (Aracne) 2013.

Recovery manuals and codes of practice
F. Giovanetti (a cura di), Manuale del Recupero del Comune di Roma, Roma (DEI), 1989.
F. Giovanetti (a cura di), Manuale del Recupero di Città di castello, Roma (DEI), 1992
F. Giovanetti (a cura di), Manuale del recupero del Comune di Roma II edizione, Roma (DEI) 1997.
F. Giovanetti (a cura di), Manuale del Recupero del Centro Storico di Palermo, Palermo (Flaccovio) 1997.
A. Giuffrè (a cura di), Sicurezza e conservazione dei centri storici. Il caso Ortigia, Bari (Laterza) 1993.

Method and technique
G. Caniggia, Strutture dello spazio antropico, Firenze (Alinea) 1972.
G. Caniggia, G.L. Maffei, Composizione architettonica e tipologia edilizia. 1. Lettura dell’edilizia di base, Venezia (Marsilio) 1979.

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 goal to be pursued is to ntrodurre knowledge of the architectural language of the Roman tradition and the use of art techniques to build pre-modern as practical for an active and consistent conservation of historic buildings.

General texts
P. Marconi, Materia e significato. La questione del restauro architettonico, Bari (Laterza) 1999.
P. Marconi, Il recupero della bellezza, Milano (Skira) 2005
M. Zampilli, Introduzione alla conoscenza dell’edilizia pre-moderna ed al suo restauro; in: F. Geremia, M. Zampilli, Casali della campagna romana. Esperienze di ricerca per la didattica, Roma (Aracne) 2013.

Recovery manuals and codes of practice
F. Giovanetti (a cura di), Manuale del Recupero del Comune di Roma, Roma (DEI), 1989.
F. Giovanetti (a cura di), Manuale del Recupero di Città di castello, Roma (DEI), 1992
F. Giovanetti (a cura di), Manuale del recupero del Comune di Roma II edizione, Roma (DEI) 1997.
F. Giovanetti (a cura di), Manuale del Recupero del Centro Storico di Palermo, Palermo (Flaccovio) 1997.
A. Giuffrè (a cura di), Sicurezza e conservazione dei centri storici. Il caso Ortigia, Bari (Laterza) 1993.

Method and technique
G. Caniggia, Strutture dello spazio antropico, Firenze (Alinea) 1972.
G. Caniggia, G.L. Maffei, Composizione architettonica e tipologia edilizia. 1. Lettura dell’edilizia di base, Venezia (Marsilio) 1979.

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.

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.

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.
Daniela Esposito, Tecniche costruttive murarie medievali: murature "a tufelli" in area romana, L'Erma di Bretschneider, Roma 1998.
R. Marta, Tecnica costruttiva a Roma nel Medioevo, Kappa Editore, Roma 1998.
P. Marconi, Materia e significato. La questione del restauro architettonico, Bari (Laterza) 1999.
P. Marconi, Il recupero della bellezza, Milano (Skira) 2005
M. Docci D. Maestri, Manuale del rilevamento architettonico e urbano, n.e. Laterza Editore, Bari 2009.
F. Geremia, M. Zampilli, Casali della campagna romana. Esperienze di ricerca per la didattica, Aracne editrice Roma, 2013.
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