Restoration is a discipline that sees the 'knowledge construction site' as an essential methodological premise for every design and executive activity. An approach that nowadays requires operators in the sector to have broad and diversified knowledge: from historical research to direct knowledge of the assets, from the application of scientific analysis technologies and advanced modeling and management methodologies to diagnostics to structural and energy models, from evaluation and management issues to anthropological and social ones.
Research on the restoration project and its concrete outcomes in terms of sustainability has broadened the field of interest of the subject both in a territorial and temporal sense. It is therefore not limited to only historical and monumental buildings but extends to the minor building fabric, to the abandoned industrial heritage, to rural architecture, to degraded areas, to works of modern and contemporary architectural creativity, to the cultural landscape, as well as to all those artistic works that are evidence of collective identity and civilization.
In this sense, the Laboratory of Diagnostics and Restoration of Architectural and Cultural Heritage works to support the protection and enhancement activities of the large set of assets belonging to our cultural heritage: a strategic sector in the Italian system and at an international level. In particular, it aims to analyze the metric, static and material consistency of the immovable and movable heritage, to identify the degradation pathologies with the related causes, in order to identify the most correct methodologies and techniques for the conservation intervention, design and verify the compatibility of use, enjoyment and/or safe exposure, propose communication, dissemination and awareness strategies.
The Laboratory of Diagnostics and Restoration of Architectural and Cultural Heritage is a mainly service structure that collaborates with the teaching activities of the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture. Restoration represents, in fact, an essential moment in the current training path of the architect, today in Italy, the only professional figure authorized by law to deal with conservation and restoration interventions, in design, as in the management of works.
It therefore operates as a research and experimental structure with the triple function of:
To this end, the Laboratory of Diagnostics and Restoration of Architectural and Cultural Heritage operates in the following 3 research areas:
The LEA Laboratory offers specific services on behalf of third parties (consulting in the field of territorial energy planning, energy production and conversion systems and their impact) and applies the rates approved and published by the Sicilian Region in relation to certification tests. Any percentage reductions in unit prices for individual analyses or services can be applied in relation to the number of tests requested through specific agreements. In the case of tests and/or services not included in the price list, items from a list specifically defined by the Laboratory Manager will be formulated.
Prof. Antonio Messineo
antonio.messineo@unikore.it
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