Authors:Pietro Matracchi, Gianmarco Agnoloni, Paolo Bruschetti, Elena Caldini, Deborah del Dottore, Ada Salvi Pages: 4 - 31 Abstract: About fifteen years after the “Parco Archeologico” of Cortona was opened, it was deemed necessary to launch an accurate and extensive campaign of study and documentation of the sites from which it consists. The study and the survey were started from the tumuli of Sodo and the tumulus of Camucia; the work was conducted with the aim of deepening the construction techniques and the state of conservation of these artifacts. Two main areas of decay emerged, one related to the not always effective control and protection from rainwater; the other concerns the structural problems of parts in condition of ruin, but also of intact rooms apparently in good state of conservation. In some cases, possible intervention solutions were also outlined. This research also aims to lay the foundations for the future development of a planned conservation, which is a key theme in archaeological sites. PubDate: 2024-01-15 DOI: 10.36253/rar-15175
Authors:Giuseppe Sanna Pages: 32 - 61 Abstract: In literature, the nuraghi, megalithic towers, are studied as separete cases. The proposed study aims instead at analysing them as a whole taking as a empirical reference in the case of Sinis, within the territory of Cabras (central-western Sardinia). By means of a visual connection between the various nuraghi, it is possible to trace 'paths' of information exchange with which it is hypothesised that the ancient architectures interacted in synergy in order to protect their mother city, currently under the waters of the Cabras pond, in the Conca Illonis area. The results of the analysis allow us to imagine a new possible analysis model that illustrates the functioning of the nuraghi and a nuragic dwelling settlement of considerably larger dimensions than any known to date in Sardinia. PubDate: 2024-01-15 DOI: 10.36253/rar-14491
Authors:Maddalena Branchi Pages: 62 - 75 Abstract: This contribution recounts the eighteenth-century restoration interventions relating to the oratory dedicated to San Sebastiano, belonging to the monumental complex of the SS. Annunziata of Florence and historically under the patronage of the Pucci family. In order to reconstruct the historical events of the oratory, some unpublished documents relating to the historical restoration and maintenance interventions of the eighteenth century will be examined. Preserved mainly in the private archive of the Pucci family, the documents are materials of great importance for the study of the constructive events of the Oratory, but also as evidence of the cultural evolution of the relationship with the ancient and reflections on the concepts of restoration and conservation. PubDate: 2024-01-15 DOI: 10.36253/rar-15074
Authors:Alessandro Merlo Pages: 76 - 89 Abstract: The international cooperation project between Italy and Cuba, ¡Que no baje el telón! is aimed at the restoration and functional recovery of the Facultad de Arte Teatral of the Universidad de las Artes in La Havana (Cuba). The project has made possible to address the delicate issue of relationship between the work of the conservator, the will of the author of the work and the artefact itself. Despite the existence of specific provisions of the law, the formal protection of modern and contemporary architecture (in the absence or in the presence of restrictions) is a delicate operation. Those people called to intervene must have the capability to manage an articulated set of premises, from the state of conservation of the building to the needs of the community that uses it. PubDate: 2024-01-15 DOI: 10.36253/rar-14950
Authors:Gaia Lavoratti Pages: 90 - 101 Abstract: The paper, through the analysis of the case study relating to the morphometric and chromatic documentation of the Facultad de Arte Teatral of the ISA (La Habana), aims to highlight the essential role that the survey of architecture plays in the process of enhancement and protection of Cultural Heritage. The survey is the critical investigation tool by definition: when it’s understood in the broadest sense of the term, it constitutes the necessary cognitive premise at the basis of any design action. This is even more true when the intervention involves the restoration of a cultural artefact aimed at its conservation and management, an operation that assumes a careful analysis of the existing state and the correct reading of the architectural organism in all its parts. PubDate: 2024-01-15 DOI: 10.36253/rar-14945
Authors:Sofia Celli, Andrea Garzullino Pages: 102 - 117 Abstract: This paper contributes to the ongoing debate on methods and tools for the preservation and management of architectural heritage, and presents the Conservation Management Plan developed between 2018 and 2020 for the National Schools of Arts of Havana. The authors focus on the GIS based tools created to manage information collected by the different work groups who contributed to the drafting of the Plan. The outcome is an articulated and flexible system which aims to describe the complexity of the schools, as well as to actively involve interested actors in order to share cultural values, operational needs and priorities of intervention. Indeed, the objective of a Conservation Management Plan is to clarify the significance of a place, and define in which ways such significance will be maintained in future transformations. The GIS developed for the National Art Schools enabled to archive, systematize, and analyze data according to the double-scale approach which characterized the entire research (the territorial and the architectural one), thus becoming an essential tool for the implementation of the CMP. PubDate: 2024-01-15 DOI: 10.36253/rar-14946
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