Rehabilitation of Historical and Modern Buildings
Teaching activities
The teaching activity aims at enhancing various research focuses of different areas on rehabilitation, structural engineering, materials, history of architecture and history of architectural techniques, restoration, building architectural engineering, energy refurbishment, architectural composition, geotechnics and topography.
It is articulated both with basic courses on building technology, geotechnics, restoration, history, architectural composition,building architectural engineering, topography and restoration, and with advanced courses on structural and energy modelling, structural analysis, intervention techniques, construction techniques and the restoration of historical and modern buildings.
Particular attention is paid to historical buildings in a broad sense, including structures and infrastructures.
The training programme includes monographic courses, cycles of seminars held by internal and external speakers, and laboratory activities and is aimed at providing a basic preparation for highly qualified research activities.
Research activities
This curriculum, in addition to the research activities previously reported for all curricula, is characterized by the involvement of doctoral students in the following specific areas of both national and international interest:
- conservation of the built environment;
- diagnostic and monitoring investigations of the built environment;
- history of architecture and of architectural techniques;
- evaluation of the load-bearing capacity and seismic vulnerability of existing buildings;
- reinforcement interventions for historical and contemporary buildings, infrastructures and structures;
- theoretical, experimental and numerical modeling of cracking and instability phenomena in historical and contemporary buildings, infrastructures and structures;
- accessibility of cultural heritage;
- assessment of building performance technologies for components for the sustainable design and energy efficiency of the built environment;
- architectural design for the enhancement and reuse of historical and contemporary buildings.
Academic Disciplines
CEAR-04/A (formerly ICAR/06) – Topography and Cartography
CEAR-05/A (formerly ICAR/07) – Geotechnics
CEAR07/A (formerly ICAR/09) – Structural Engineering
CEAR-08/A (formerly ICAR/10) – Building Architectural Engineering
CEAR-08/B (formerly ICAR/11) – Building Production
CEAR-09/A (formerly ICAR/14) – Architectural and Urban Design
CEAR-11/A (formerly ICAR/18) – History of Architecture
CEAR-11/B (formerly ICAR/19) – Restoration of Architecture
Main Advisor
Prof. Giovanni Plizzari
Program Assistant
Prof. Fausto Minelli
Current PhD Students