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Tag: Recovery

  • Rebuilt the space using stone or brick vaulted systems: catching the contemporary challenge of construction tradition

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    In the recovery and restoration sites, as well as in the versatile word of university research about construction history, it’s not infrequent to study stereotomy for the re-proposal of stony or tiled vaulted systems, sometimes complex for their constitutive geometry, equipment, preliminary/subsidiary carpentry works. It represents a didactic study-key also in Engineering and Architecture Schools, through laboratories that teach to future designers a “know-how” that can be easily spent in their professional repercussions.

  • Timbrel vaults in Sicily. Constructive techniques and intervention methodologies

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    Almost totally ignored by the official historical and current technical culture, both locally and in the Italian ambit, thin brick vaults actually are mostly demolished or transformed in decorative ceilings. The detailed and comparative knowledge of many cases, encouraged also by building continuity in other countries, but also the partial and total reconstructions that have occurred in recent years, allow to properly assess potentialities and limitations, the real possibility or opportunity for their maintenance, rehabilitation or re-proposal, even preserving the structural function.

  • Mediterranean traditional architecture and tools for the recovery. The case study of Dellys in Algeria

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    This contribution shows the research work carried out within the pilot projects of the Rehabimed International Consortium, for the definition of guidelines for the recovery of the historical city of Dellys in Algeria, which was almost completely destroyed by a catastrophic earthquake in the early 2000s. In order to encourage re-population, the research was aimed at the study and recognition of the morphological, typological and constructive structure characters of the traditional architecture of the casbah, in order to direct the re-qualification actions for this significant traditional and historical heritage, also taking into account the seismic criticality of the area.

  • The buildings for the holiday in the 20 years. The “Vittorino da Feltre” colony in Matera

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    The study aims to present the first results of a wide research carried out on the holiday constructions made in Basilicata during the Fascism, in particular on the “Vittorino da Feltre” helioterapical colony in Matera; it was built in 1937 by a design of the engineer Vincenzo Corazza. It is the only helioterapical building present on Basilicata area until today, which has not been destroyed in the decades, after the collapse of the fascist regime because it was transformed and readapted in a public school. The analysis of the archival material, the study of the state of the art and the technological characterization of the building made it possible to highlight all the typicalities of this architecture.

  • Urban Infiltrations: recovery and reinterpretation of local constructive characters

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    A high thermal resistance and air tightness of the building envelope risk to create great internal moisture load with consequences for durability of materials and inhabitants’ comfort and health. The passive solution here proposed is a moisture buffering “active” device (MB-AD), to be integrated in the building envelope, which is able to measure the RH indoors and react by increasing the MB ability of a material forcing the passage of air inside it. The hygrothermal performance of the device has been experimentally tested and results showed that the Moisture Buffering Value measured in the “active” device increased until 29% more than the “passive” one.

  • Recovery and reuse of the architectural and urban heritage of Carbonia, materials for a Handbook

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    The research, currently underway, aims to outline the construction history of the company town of Carbonia, together with the satellite towns, Bacu Abis and Cortoghiana, in order to build the foundations and materials for a “Handbook for the Recovery”, focused primarily on the residential buildings and its urban fabric. It does not provide a catalogue of standardized solutions, but merely defines a knowledge base to guide the designers towards the recognition of the buildings’ invariant aspects and the understanding of the original architectural expression.

  • Architectural approaches for the enhancement of stone Alpine heritage

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    The purpose of this paper is to show some of the results of the international project Interreg-AlpStone, whose main objective is the conservation and enhancement of the stone building heritage located in the Alps between Italy and Switzerland. The recovery of this heritage requires their adaptation to the current safety and comfort regulations, while at the same time the conservation of its traditional features. The work method of the research team is composed by the phases of documentation and analysis, laboratory and in situ experimentation and definition of architectural solutions.

  • The recovery manuals as operational instruments for intervention on the built heritage

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    After a critical analysis of the context (by defining the state of the art and the conditions imposed by the environment), it could be
    possible set the project, identifying different steps in the design process, aiming to synergistically conjugation the technological,
    constructive and materical aspects, as well. The aim is to reconsider the definition of the possibility of intervention on the built
    environment to design recovery interventions a system in which the technical and cultural variables not neglect in a dichotomous relationship between them, but as a part of the same process.