Università Roma Tre

The course, intended for students of the Master's Degrees in Architectural Design, Urban Design, Architecture - Restoration, illustrates the methodology and cultural and technical tools for quality design in the restoration of ancient, medieval and modern architecture.
The course, therefore, includes an introduction on the analytical method, the normative reference scenario, and focuses on the operational synthesis of the design and execution process of architectural restoration in the philological genre. The teaching, therefore, will develop the comparative study of the Constructive Characters of Historical Building and on this basis illustrate the method of Architectural Design of Restoration.
The design and execution process of architectural restoration of the philological genre will be illustrated in its methodological development, from analytical preliminaries to operational syntheses that coherently motivate the technical choices of intervention and their cantieristica realization.
The subject of design is the Heritage of architectures and sites worthy of preservation; said Heritage is considered, for the purposes of enhancement, in its relationship with the Landscape that hosts it. Therefore, 'organized forms of knowledge' useful for the documentation, critical reading and dissemination of the historical, aesthetic, cultural values and meanings that connote our living environment will be illustrated, with a view to their transfer to the future and the enhancement of the territory. The design process described will be documented through the presentation of specially selected examples and, if possible, through the contribution of Experts and with site visits and/or exercises.
General Course Topics:
Tools and methods of the design and execution of 'restoration for enhancement';
Discussion of examples and realizations; their possible deepening through exercises and/or site visits.
The course is related to the Architectural Restoration Laboratory of the Master's Degree in Architecture-Restoration, which takes place in the same semester; of the Laboratory it shares some contents, some initiatives and part of the teaching staff; therefore, the usefulness of attending the course for the students of the Architectural Restoration Laboratory is noted.
Lecture Topics.
Introduction to the Course.
Tools and Methods of Restoration for Enhancement.
- Hints at the regulatory landscape in the operation of restoration and enhancement.
- Methods and tools for quality design: the constructive lexicon of traditional architecture and digital culture (historical treatises and contemporary manuals, from the Vitruvian tradition to the Restoration Manuals and Codes of Earthquake Practice).
- Restoration and Enhancement. Knowledge initiatives about architectures and their contexts of reception and relationship. The role of University Research (the Mibact-Iccd Thesaurus; the Dynamic Atlas of Rome3).
- Restoration for enhancement in archaeological settings.
- Restoration for enhancement in the areas of 'living' architectures and sites.
Case study of project examples and realizations with unity of method.
- House of the Silver Wedding in Pompeii.
- Maggiore Fountain in Perugia.
- Chigi Palace in Ariccia.
- Clock tower of the Filippini convent in Rome.
- Establishment of the zootermic baths in the former Slaughterhouse of Testaccio.
- The frescoes of the church of San Nicola dei Lorenesi, Rome
- Digital culture for the planned conservation and enhancement of the historical territorial and urban landscape: (Ostia Antica, Rome, Tivoli)
Ev. Exercises /surveys
Survey and restitution of material and technological components.
Elaborations to be discussed in the exam.
Chronological reading and procedural synthesis in textual and graphic environment, of the historical development of a building or its particularly significant technological component chosen and proposed by the Student

- F. GIOVANETTI [a cura], Manuale del Recupero del Comune di Roma, II edizione ampliata, DEI, Roma 1997 (in appendice
- P. MARCONI, Materia e significato. La questione del restauro architettonico, Laterza, Bari 1999.
- L. ZEVI [a cura], Manuale del Restauro Architettonico, Mancosu, Roma 2001.
- A. PUGLIANO, Il Riconoscimento, la Documentazione, il Catalogo dei Beni Architettonici. Elementi di un costituendo Thesaurus utile alla Conoscenza, alla Tutela, alla Conservazione dell’Architettura, 2 voll. Prospettive edizioni, Roma 2009.
- P. MARCONI, Restauro dei monumenti – Cultura, progetti e cantieri 1967-2010, Gangemi, Roma 2012.