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Conservazione o sostenibilità: priorità o compromesso? Proposta per un approccio metaprogettuale.
No full textThe discipline of conservation is not able to leave out of consideration some needs that are become fundamental in the contemporary society.
Among these, environmental and economic sustainability are basic necessities, however the actions to “make sustainable” a cultural property often conflict with the “orthodox” rules of the conservation discipline. Furthermore, in restoration activities are employed chemical products that could have harmful effects both on workers and on environment and that also could produce negative effects in the long time (e.g. interactions with atmosphere and pollutants).
The discipline of the restoration has taken the postulate of "case by case", according to which every action, even if similar, should be modeled on the case of the specific subject, producing very different judgments and solutions. However, such relativism can produce a real anarchy of principles and a difficulty in finding a real solution that meets the new current needs.
The paper aims to reflect on the possibility of interaction between “preserve” and “sustainable acting”, analysing methodological aspects of conservation techniques and proposing a metadesign approach. This approach permits to predict the environmental impacts and the risks for workers at the origin of the restoration process.
The paper aims to reflect on the possibility of interaction between “preserve” and “sustainable acting”, analysing methodological aspects of conservation techniques and proposing a metadesign approach. This approach permits to predict the environmental impacts and the risks for workers at the origin of the restoration process
La conservazione del patrimonio ecclesiastico diffuso
No full textThe development of efficient preventive and planned maintenance's plans,
about ′coherent groups′ of built Heritage (castles, villas, churches, monumental
cemeteries, etc.), is becoming increasingly necessary.
Ecclesiastic Heritage represents a large share of built cultural assets, that
shows a growing difficulty of management, because of the substantial number
of oratories, chapels, parish churches, widespread on Italian territory and the
inadequate available resources. They belong to the ′minor′ cultural heritage, the
most weak category in term of preservation: they have less visibility and possibility
to receive public funding.
In contrast to civil architecture, both popular (hamlets, rural villages) and
noble (castles, villas), the ecclesiastical built Heritage cannot often easily be reused
with another destination and this could lead to a scarcity of interest in it.
Monumental cemeteries also are at risk, because they present critical situations
like the lack of heirs, who take care of graves, and employees not adequately
educated in order to improve maintenance and preservation. However, their relation
with historical, artistic and religious routes permits their valorisation.
At last, if the lack of adequate funding does not facilitate restorations, the
development of guidelines and the fulfilment of recommendations of maintenance
represent a sustainable approach to the preservation of a large part of architectural
heritage, reducing management costs and maintaining constant
buildings performances
Evaluation of sustainability of restoration practices and of techniques of historical know-how
No full textThe term sustainability was first defined by G.H. Brundtland in 1987 in the UN report Our Common Future and it is soon become a central key – word of the technical debates of the last decades and those related to the conservation of Cultural Heritage are not excluded.
The activity of conservation itself is sustainable, at least for the environmental aspect, since the reuse of the existent avoids the spending of resources to put up new buildings. In the past it has often been considered acceptable the non-sustainability of the restoration against the recognized value of a cultural asset. While this reasoning may still be acceptable for certain outstanding heritage property, it cannot be extended to the widespread ‘minor’ BH: often not declared of cultural interest by Italian legislation and rarely object of public funding.
Moreover, in the principal restoration activities of cultural heritage are usually employed chemicals that can have harmful effects both on workers and on environment: the product selection is often affected by economic interests or sectoral advertising. In addition to the toxicity, in the long run these products can produce unexpected negative effects (eg. interactions with atmosphere and pollutants), so the result is a pejorative transformation, in spite of a condition of balance which minimizes the development of the decay phenomena.
In order to safeguard both the materials and the operators there is a need of acting on the quality of interventions and on the research of products with low environmental impact.
About the quality design it is useful to reminder the maintenance approach whose beginnings are usually identified in the theories of J. Ruskin while about the low environmental impact the application of LCA approach is suggested.
As reflection, many ancient goods are still usable thanks to interventions of daily care implemented by the users of the past, so it is also important the revival and experimentation of traditional techniques based on empirical knowledge of natural products readily available (eg vinegar with juice lemon used as a herbicide). The use of these practises appears simple but it must not be taken in a simplistic way: it is necessary to study the scientific reasons at the basis of the functioning of the natural products, in order to use them in the proper manner (eg. the cited mix can cause serious damage to carbonate rocks due to its acidity).
In conclusion, the contribute will analyze the sustainability from different point of views of the methodological aspects of different techniques of conservation before and after the advent of the high industrialized processes that took place after World War II, without disclaiming the validity of some applications. Finally the research aims to propose powerful instruments like the LCA approach that could ponders all aspects of social and environmental sustainability and impacts balancing in the long run positive and negative contributions in the entire life of the asset
Prevenire per conservare. Vademecum per la conservazione preventiva del patrimonio ecclesiastico diffuso
Full text linkCultura responsabile della manutenzione, individuazione e trasferimento di buone prassi per la conservazione programmata, diffusione di nuove metodologie e tecnologie di indagine diagnostica rappresentano solo alcuni degli elementi chiave del progetto, che, pur riguardando nello specifico la chiesa della B.v. Annunciata di Serle, può essere esteso a molti altri beni ecclesiastici diffusi sul territorio regionale.
La realizzazione di questo vademecum risponde in particolare alla necessità di sensibilizzare e rendere consapevoli i gestori dei beni culturali delle potenzialità che corrette strategie di conservazione programmata apportano dal punto di vista della sostenibilità economica e funzionale del patrimonio. Il vademecum è da intendersi come una breve guida contenente suggerimenti e raccomandazioni per un'adeguata prevenzione del degrado degli edifici storici di tipo ecclesiastico
The sustainable management of historical buildings
No full textThe sustainability is an essential topic in the field of building planning and it became also a necessary requirement of the Cultural Heritage preservation.
It’s a long time since the STEP laboratory, of the University of Pavia, deals with researches on the themes of recovery and restoration of Interdepartmental Research Centre on Cultural Heritage Conservation (CISRiC). The STEP laboratory has worked on the development of analysis and energy assessment methodologies and on the sustainable management of historical buildings. In this area, a research was conduct and experimented on the southern wing of the royal palace of Monza, in Lombardy (north of Italy). Another project was focused on the creation of assessment models aimed at planning the conservation and the Life Cycle Assessment of “Minor” monuments, such as the sanctuary of the Beata Vergine Annunciata in Serle (province of Brescia), also in Lombardy.
The methodological features delineate a unified approach for the sustainable management of the Cultural Heritage, through the conducted case-studies
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