Rehabilitation technology of traditional architecture: managing coexistence between conservation and innovation

Abstract

The study presented in this abstract focuses its attention on the rehabilitation by the technological point of view of traditional architecture that belongs to historical city nucleus. Which building technology characteristics are considered as constant, and which ones are considered as changeable, in today rehabilitation practice, with respect to the problem of managing the coexistence between conservation of the cultural values and innovation to respond to contemporary exigencies? This study tried to answer this question by applying a comparative case study strategy.