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FAST-CH055Acad. year: 2024/2025
Cultural monuments and all the older buildings need to be renovated in a specific way. It is necessary to acquaint with historical building technology and used means creating their construction, architecture and embellishment. The course content is aimed right at this so that students can familiarize with traditional technologies, construction and craft industry. Last but not least they also learn how to deal with employees of conservation institutes.
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Entry knowledge
Basic knowledge of constructions of vertical and horizontal building parts; roof trusses and roof structures; interior finishing works; basics of the history of architecture; building structural and historical survey; building chemistry and physics; drawing of building structures and their changes.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Successful passing of the course requires attendance, getting credit by submitting and presenting of the semestral project and passing an exam.
Aims
Principles of care for architectural monuments and historic buildings. Development of building structures and architecture. Historical building structures, technology of exterior and interior decoration, surface finishes, decorative elements, painting techniques, vaults. The legal requirements on the protection of cultural heritage in the Czech Republic.
The graduate obtains fundamental knowledge about the construction and project design process of building rehabilitation and reconstruction of historical buildings. The graduate is able to:– describe the history of buildings and architectural styles in the Czech Republic;– design the reconstruction of particular structures of historical buildings and building monuments;– conduct the detailed building survey: basic structural and static survey, moisture survey and bio-corrosion evaluation, including a preliminary assessment;– conduct the fundamental architectural analysis of the building;– conduct the fundamental historical survey.
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1. Introduction to the subject; monument care: development and contemporary legal requirements on the protection of cultural heritage in the Czech Republic; methods of protection and presentation of building monuments; surveys and diagnostics of historical buildings. 2. Architectural styles in the territory of the Czech Republic. 3. Historical development of building structures in the territory of the Czech Republic. 4. Approaches to the conservation and interventions in individual building elements and structures of historic buildings and building monuments. 5. Historical building technologies: stonemasonry; plastering of historic buildings; gypsum plasters and false vaults; stucco work. 6. Historical building technologies: painting techniques in historical eras; fresco paintings; sgraffito decoration; stuccolustro. 7. Historical building technologies: mosaic; wallpapers; gilding, patination, polychrome. 8. Vaults: fundamental overview, building technologies, faults and repairs of vaults; exam instructions.
Exercise
1. Introduction to practice classes; credit granting conditions; assignment of input documents for semestral work. 2. Individual consultation of the assignment and field work: preliminary survey, measurement of current state, photodocumentation, collection of the necessary information. 3. Historical survey of the given building: work with archive and literary sources. 4. Architectural analysis of the building and art history review: architectural style and detail; monument evaluation of the building. 5. Building survey: basic structural and static survey, moisture survey and bio-corrosion evaluation, including a preliminary assessment of the current state. 6. Design of the refurbishment of particular structures: processing the problems of reconstruction, rehabilitation or renovation procedures of selected building defects and failures (special technological procedures for the restoration of monuments are preferred). 7. Individual consultation; presentation of work results. 8. Submission of semestral work; credits.