Course detail

Reconstruction of monuments and methods of their preservation

FAST-DH78Acad. year: 2024/2025

Buildings under special protection must be remedial work in technologies and construction rules corresponding his age of birth. For this purposes is necessary to know creation of details, functions and way of using. Most of bigger historical building have complementary building with aesthetical and architectonic meaning, whose construction and improvement is different in various cases. Also ruins, which are on a large scale in our country ,have own principles of improvement and conservation.

Language of instruction

Czech

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. Milan Vlček, CSc.

Department

Institute of Building Structures (PST)

Entry knowledge

Theory of engeneerig structures, physical and chemical characters of constructional materials, behaviours of degradation of constructional materials, history of architecture.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Aims

Rules of monuments protections, torsional architecture, solitaires, tower roof trusses, bells and bell towers, chimneys and combustion chumber, historical paintings technics, projects of maintenance measures.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Not applicable.

Recommended literature

Not applicable.

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

39 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Milan Vlček, CSc.

Syllabus

1. Principles by historical monuments reconstructions 2. Modern methods of technical-structural exploration 3. Technical-structural and archive exploration 4. Special works on historical monuments 5. Ruin restoring – phylosophy of approach, maintenance and conservations of coronas 6. Bell towers, bells – types, bell idlers, static effets of bell on constructions 7. Man-sized chimneys, tile stove, fires, combustion chambers 8. Historical painting technics - batikování, šumrování, tupování, ilusiv paints 9. Constructions of tower roofs 10. Maintenance of historical wooden constructions 11. Diagonal web 12. Park solitaires, their construction and enrichment 13. Details of controlling elements and their evolution