Costruire in zona sismica. Studi e considerazioni di alcuni ufficiali del Genio militare all’inizio del Novecento

La rovina del Collegio militare di Messina, a seguito del terremoto di messina del 1908, fu causata principalmente dalla mancanza di collegamenti strutturali. I militari del Genio, attivi sul posto, segnalarono la carenze delle costruzioni rispetto alle azioni sismiche ed elaborarono proposte per nuove costruzioni antisismiche

Technique at the service of a new liturgical model: the timber roof of the church of Saints Marcellino and Pietro in Cremona

At the turn of the 17th century, the Jesuit order settled in the city of Cremona, where, thanks to the support of Bishop Speciano and some notable families, it started the construction of the church of Saints Marcellino and Pietro (1606-1620), the Schools and the College. The church model of the aisleless rectangular hall – large enough to accommodate a large number of faithful – forced the fathers to resort to unusual solutions for the area of Cremona, which, over the centuries, also led to instability and structural problems. The careful archival and bibliographic research made it possible to investigate the wooden roof with wide-span “Palladian” trusses (about 15.20 m), directing the diagnostic analyses, identifying the peculiarities of the technical solutions adopted, in a continuous comparison between indirect sources and in situ investigations. The construction events of the trusses and secondary framing were investigated over a long period of time, to include the succession of minute maintenance and repairs, also carried out in the last two centuries; the complexity and stratification of works carried out in phases and singular interventions, linked to the chronological succession of events, is the basis for the interpretation of the current state of the structure, therefore for a restoration intervention aimed at protecting the building palimpsest

Italy. Restoration of serial buildings: the barracks

Due to the progressive abandonment of Italian military buildings, a heterogeneous whole distributed all over the national territory, it makes deep sense to study this considerable heritage, in order to re-function them and re-adjust the principal local and territorial realities. Object of study are the barracks built from the unity of Italy (1861) until the Second World War (1945), those show high quality in construction and serial characteristics in morphology, layout, structural planning and constructional techniques. These aspects make the barracks an interesting subject of study to define a rational process of reconversion, through a methodological meta-project approach, capable of transcending the specificity of each individual barracks’ structure