Restoration is a discipline that sees the ‘building site of knowledge’ as an essential methodological premise of every design and execution activity.
Today, this approach requires wide-ranging and diversified knowledge from operators in the sector: from historical research to direct knowledge of the assets, from the application of scientific technologies for analysis and advanced modelling and management methodologies to diagnostics, structural and energy models, and from evaluation and management issues to anthropological and social ones.
Research on restoration design and its concrete outcomes in terms of sustainability has broadened the field of interest of the subject both in a spatial and temporal sense.
It is therefore not limited to historic buildings and monuments. Still, it extends to the fabric of minor buildings, disused industrial heritage, rural architecture, degraded areas, works of modern and contemporary architectural creativity, the cultural landscape, and all those artistic works that witness collective identity and civilisation.
In this sense, the Laboratory of Diagnostics and Restoration of Architectural and Cultural Heritage operates in support of the activities of protection and enhancement of the wide range of assets belonging to our cultural heritage: a strategic sector in the Italian system and internationally.
In particular, it aims to analyse the metric, static and material consistency of the immovable and movable heritage, to identify the pathologies of degradation and their causes, to identify the correct methodologies and techniques for conservation work, to design and verify the compatibility of use, fruition and/or exposure in safety, to propose communication, dissemination and awareness strategies.
The Laboratory of Diagnostics and Restoration of Architectural and Cultural Heritage is mainly a service structure that collaborates with the teaching activities of the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture.
Restoration is, in fact, an essential part of the training of the architect, today in Italy, the only professional figure authorised by law to deal with conservation and restoration work, both in design and in works management.
It, therefore, operates as a research and experimentation structure with the triple function of:
To this end, the Laboratory of Diagnostics and Restoration of Architectural and Cultural Heritage operates in the following three research areas:
a) Methods and technologies for architectural, urban and landscape recovery and restoration
b) Surveying and diagnostics of architectural and artistic heritage (in synergy with the {2][3}with the Laboratory of Relief and Representation){4]
c) Management and enhancement of tangible and intangible cultural heritage
Cardaci A., Versaci A.
(2018).
Relief and Restoration an indispensable combination.
Methodological approaches and operational applications aimed at the knowledge and conservation of the cultural heritage of the Enna area.
Rome,
Aracne editrice, 160 p., ISBN:
9788825513271
Versaci A., Lo Cascio A., Fauzìa L. R., Cardaci A.
(2020).
Studies for the conservation and valorisation of the archaeological rock heritage of Calascibetta in Sicily, Italy.
In:
ISPRS – The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote sensing and Spatial information sciences, vol.
XLIV-M-1-2020, pp.
311-318, ISSN:
1682-1777, doi:
10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIV-M-1-2020-311-2020
Versaci A., Fauzìa L. R., Russo M., Cardaci A.
(2020).
The integrated fast survey for the risk assessment.
A proposal for the safeguarding of the Medieval castles in Central Sicily.
In:
ISPRS – The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote sensing and Spatial information sciences, vol.
XLIV-M-1-2020, pp.
893-900, ISSN:
1682-1777, doi:
10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIV-M-1-2020-893-2020
Cardaci A., Versaci A.
(2019).
Research and technological innovation for the knowledge, conservation and valorisation of cultural heritage in Sicily.
In:
ISPRS – The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote sensing and Spatial information sciences, vol.
XLII-2/W15, pp.
247-254, ISSN:
2194-9034, doi:
10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W15-247-2019
Cardaci A., Mirabella Roberti G., Versaci A.
(2019).
The integrated 3D survey for planned conservation: the former church and convent of Sant’ Agostino in Bergamo.
In:
ISPRS – The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote sensing and Spatial information sciences, pp.
1-8, ISSN:
1682-1777, doi:
10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W9-235-2019
Versaci A., Cardaci A., Fauzìa L.R., Russo M.
(2019).
The castle of Assoro: the integrated survey for the knowledge and conservation of ruins.
In:
ISPRS – The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote sensing and Spatial information sciences, vol.
XLII-2/W11, pp.
1127-1135, ISSN:
1682-1777, doi:
10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W11-1127-2019
Arrighetti A., Cardaci A., Gallina D., Versaci A.
(2017).
New data for the reinterpretation and knowledge of a ‘monumental ruin’: the ‘Longobard’ church of Sant’Eusebio in Pavia.
In Archaeology of Architecture, ISSN 1126-6236
Versaci A., Cardaci A.
(2017).
Contemporary architecture and conservation in the experience of the MAXXI Museum in Rome.
In:
ANANKE, vol. special issue GeoRes, pp.
105-110, ISSN:
1129-8219
Cardaci A., Versaci A.
(2016), Methodological approaches and design directions for the restoration of the Doge’s Palace in Antivari, Montenegro.
In:
Archaeological restoration, vol.
25, pp.
40-59, ISSN:
1724-9686, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13128/RA-19318
Versaci A.
(2015).
A theatre for the Castello di Lombardia.
Criteria and opportunities between restoration, reuse and sustainability.
In:
Confronti, vol.
IV, pp.
216-226, ISSN:
2279-7920
Cardaci A., Versaci A., Fauzia L.R.
(2015).
3D documentation for archaeological conservation: some case studies in Central Sicily.
In:
SCIRES-IT, vol.
5; pp.
49-70, ISSN:
2239-4303, doi:
10.2423/i22394303v5n2p498
Versaci A., Cardaci A, Mirabella Roberti G.
(2011).
From the continuous to the discrete model: a laser scanning application to conservation projects.
In:
ISPRS – International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, vol.
XXXVIII-5/W16; pp.
1-8, ISSN:
1682-1777, doi:
10.5194/isprsarchives-XL-5-W2-155-2013
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