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Papers on the Conservation of Ancient Monuments and Remains. John Ruskin, Gilbert Scott e la Carta inglese della Conservazione (Londra, 1865)
2019
Il contributo tratta l'evoluzione storico-teorica del Restauro nel Regno Unito durante il XIX secolo, rilevando i fondamentali contributi che condurranno per la prima volta alla diffusione di una carta del Restauro, ovvero i "Papers on the Conservation of Ancient Monuments and Remains", pubblicata a Londra nel 1865. La ricerca si avvia chiarendo il significato che Edward August Freeman aveva paradossalmente assegnato al termine "conservazione" e, attraverso il supporto di documenti originali e nuove traduzioni, evidenzia il contributo fondamentale di George Gilbert Scott nella riformulazione conservativa degli obiettivi del restauro degli antichi edifici, con molti riferimenti alle idee di …
RESTORING, REUSING RURAL LANDSCAPES. A CASE STUDY: THE AREA OF MENFI IN SICILY
2017
The contribution focuses on the potential of the rural landscape of Sicily, to cope with the depopulation of the smaller towns, by relying on an integrated conservation, which means not only the preservation of the endogenous territorial resource values, but also the production of surplus values. The Italian countryside is scattered with unknown and derelict “minor” heritage, this substantializes the European identity, and we should take action with a view to recovery and reuse it. However, in a time that sees a renewed interest in the potential of the agrarian landscape, it is believed that the current concept of restoration, which is now extended to the cultural and environmental heritage…
Theoretical construct, method and working tool of the “Preventive Restoration”
2014
A restoration may constitute a positive moment to guarantee the conservation, transmission and a compatible use of an historical architecture, but it is often the result of a long and guilty omission of care, attesting a lack of interest in the architectural heritage we are late forced to heal with extensive and inva-sive interventions that, in most cases, could be prevented. Clear maintenance programs and a correct and well-planned preventive action could be sufficient to avoid unexpected interventions when it is too late; such simple concepts - apparently shared by everyone - however, remain rele-gated to a level of brainy attitudes or protocols that do not produce any ad-vantage in terms…
Large-scale Posidonia oceanica restoration in a Site of National Interest using an innovative bio-plastic transplant system
2015
Along the Italian coasts there are many areas affected by industrial activities defined as "Sites of National Interest" (SNI), which require urgent and effective remediation and restoration actions. In the framework of TETIDE project (PON01_03112 www.progettotetide.it)a restoration program was developed in SNI Priolo(Sicily) in response to a dramatic decline and regression of Posidonia oceanicameadow, caused byseveral years of petrochemical industries dumping. In particular, a large scale P. oceanicarestoration plan was carried out in four steps: (1) habitat selection, by calculation of the Preliminary Transplant Suitability Index (PTSI); (2) field assessments and test-transplanting, to eva…
L'influenza di Gustavo Giovannoni a Palermo tra urbanistica e restauro dei monumenti
2019
The present essay intends to read the events of the PRG of 1939 of Palermo, already known for accurate essays made exclusively from within the urban planning discipline, with a look different intent to trace in them early, embryonic meanings of the culture of restoration that in those years Gustavo Giovannoni (1873-48), enunciated with his theory of 'thinning' expressed already in 1913. The projects presented, but not realized, which included the group headed by Edoardo Caracciolo, father of Sicilian urbanism, still felt the pressing needs of a sanitary nature. The lack in Palermo of a culture still felt on these issues, together with the war event that had just started, would have postpone…
Autenticità, materia, memoria
2012
Il capitolo è dedicato ai concetti di autenticità, materia e memoria; la trattazione richiama il pensiero di Walter Benjamin, Henry Focillon, Cesare Brandi, George Stainer, Jacques Le Goff e altri italiani contributi. Il tema della materialità è connesso alle opere d’architettura e ai loro valori di irriproducibilità e di autenticità. The chapter is dedicated to the concepts of authenticity, matter and memory. The discussion draws the thought of Walter Benjamin, Henry Focillon, Cesare Brandi, George Stainer, Jacques Le Goff and other Italian contributions. The issue of materiality is connected to works of architecture and their values of irreproducibility and authenticity.
Structural assessment of a reinforced concrete water tower
2019
The paper presents a structural appraisal of a reinforced concrete water tower at the Public Abattoir in Malta. The water tower was constructed in the first half of the 20th century and consists in a reinforced concrete thin shell structure supported on twelve columns. Detailed drawings and a refined 3D model were prepared based on detailed site measurements of the structure. The concrete was assessed through non-destructive tests and with reference to extracted concrete core samples from different parts of the structure and extracted steel reinforcement samples. Detailed deterioration mapping was conducted for the entire structure. This data was used to model the structure and analyse it t…
(Di)segni contemporanei
2018
Il contributo intende presentare criticamente alcuni interventi di restauro allineati alla più moderna ed evoluta cultura della conservazione. I due interventi sono compiuti in Sicilia sui resti di due monumenti distrutti dal terremoto che danneggiò la vallata del fiume Belice nel 1968. Il tema della reintegrazione della lacuna nei volumi strutturali degli edifici storici è realizzata attraverso il procedimento per "astrazione volumetrica", con esiti sorprendenti e d'elevata qualità conservativa. The contribution intends to critically present some restoration interventions aligned with the most modern and evolved culture of conservation. The two interventions are carried out in Sicily on th…
DIAGNOSIS FOR ARCHITECTURAL CONSERVATION. A synthetic report of a campaign of non-destructive and minimally invasive diagnostic tests performed in th…
2014
The paper presents the results of a campaign of non-destructive and minimally invasive tests that were conducted in the church of Santa Maria delle Stelle in Comiso (Ragusa, Sicily), which is the larger church in the Diocese of Ragusa. It includes a summary of the reflections that arose during the preliminary surveys and instrumental tests, and reasons that supported the choice of investigations to be performed and methods to be specifically applied for the consolidation of the architectural structures and plaster layers.
THE ROLE OF THERMOGRAPHY IN THE NON-DESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION OF HISTORICAL ARCHITECTURAL SURFACES. Some observation about the method and its purpose
2014
Infrared-Thermography (IRT) has become a supporting tool for the investigation of historical structures and facades. Using the non-destructive testing method for the detection can give a profound knowledge about the current status of the object and the state of decay, about different kinds of discontinuities at historical facades, of construction details and of thermal bridges in the facades. Different case studies of thermographic surveys on some Sicilian monuments are presented and discussed to illustrate how the method can offer applicable information about the investigated objects and demonstrate its reasonable integration into conservation projects.