Building Rehabilitation
The objectives of the course unit are: to raise awareness of the need to preserve and rehabilitate the built heritage; to highlight the most common causes of pathologies associated with poor project definition and deficiencies in construction or use; and, finally, to support the development of skills in analysis, diagnosis, and the formulation of rehabilitation solutions.
Objectives:
1. Building anomalies
Methodology for analysis, diagnosis, and intervention. Basic terminology.
Diagnostic support tools.
Identification of causes, symptoms, and methods of correction or concealment.
2. Building rehabilitation: framework
Evolution of concepts related to intervention in the built environment: Monumental heritage and ordinary heritage
Historical perspective on intervention in the built environment. Defining a lexicon
Theoretical discourse and international charters
Methodologies for analysis, diagnosis, and intervention
Quality and sustainability in construction
Case study
3. Rehabilitation of Building Elements: characterization of their functioning, diagnostic methods, and intervention techniques.
Structural elements: foundations, vertical and horizontal load-bearing structures. Stone and brick masonry, timber, steel, concrete, or mixed structures
Roofing systems
Closure and partition elements: opaque and translucent envelopes
Finishing materials