The Summer School presents the opportunity to discover the design's issues behind the historic built environment by investigating the relationship between restoration issues and those related to the structural aspects of pre-existence. The activities are calibrated to guide a critical reflection on contemporary operations in the field of restoration through discussion and dialogue among internationally renowned engineers, architects, experts and designers, in order to offer an educational experience in an extraordinary innovative and interdisciplinary key. Design practice in the field of heritage restoration and conservation requires articulated readings at different scales, with a horizontal view capable of governing, in the design process, the different specificities from the structural and architectural to those of the historic urban landscape, feeding the vertical sense of disciplinary insights. The complexity of cultural heritage therefore requires a development of the culture of engineering and architecture in a transversal sense as well, permeable to the contributions of other disciplines, seemingly distant, but also internal to heritage, according to an innovative approach of dialogue between STEM disciplines and the humanities. The Summer School Structure&Appearance 2024, reserved for 30 participants, is open to architects, engineers, as well as students, and CFP and CFU recognition is provided.  The contribution of the lectures, carried out by university professors and architects and designers, aims to update and provide participants with critical and operational tools on some of the main themes of intervention on the built heritage: the role and forms of knowledge, innovative techniques of structural intervention, the criteria of restoration's culture, and the different guidelines on the subject, with a perspective sensitive to the relationship with technology, energy sustainability and the requirements of planned conservation to increase the quality of the project. In the designated location, Villa Favorita, confronting a monumental heritage of international relevance, activities will be carried out on an emblematic case, such as the Sacred Area of the archaeological site of Herculaneum, in order to structure theoretical-operational reflections and elaborate compatible design solutions. To publicise the value of the activities conducted, an exhibition open to the public will be held at the end of the initiative, and the work produced will flow into a scientific publication.

• Registration by 28 May 2024 (closed)
• Registration confirmation by 30 May 2024
• Payment deadline: 3 June 2024
• Course: 16-21 June 2024

• Reduced registration fee for students and undergraduates: 218.00 € (200.00 € +18.00 € revenue stamp required by Italian Taxation Law)
• Full registration fee for architects, engineers, archaeologists, doctoral and postgraduate students: 368.00 € (350.00 € +18.00 € revenue stamp required by Italian Taxation Law)
• The registration fee must be paid only by bank transfer to Dipartimento di Strutture per l'Ingegneria e l'Architettura | IBAN: IT77C0306903497100000046044 | BIC/SWIFT: BCITITMM | Bank: Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A. | Cause: DiSt Summer School S&A registration by "full name".
• Entrance tickets, coffee breaks and lunches are all included in the registration fee.

Coordination

• Bianca Gioia Marino

Promoting Committee

• Domenico Asprone | Antonello De Luca | Bianca Gioia Marino | Andrea Prota | Luciano Rosati

Scientific Committee

• Domenico Asprone | Antonello De Luca | Filippo De Rossi | Raffaele Landolfo | Bianca Gioia Marino | Emidio Nigro | Andrea Pane | Renata Picone | Francesco Pirozzi | Andrea Prota | Luciano Rosati | Michelangelo Russo | Valentina Russo | Giulio Zuccaro

Organizing Committee

• Corrado Castagnaro | Rossella Marena | Sonia Musella | Iole Nocerino | Daniela Pagliarulo | Annamaria Ragosta

Administrative Secretariat

• Immacolata Diez | Anna Rita Manzi | Valeria Peluso | Alessandra Sciarrino | Maurizio Ranieri Tenti

Lecturers

• Aldo AVETA | Carlo BIASI | Vincenzo CALVANESE | Giovanni CANGI | Massimo CARMASSI | Alessandro CASTAGNARO | Massimo CLEMENTE | Edoardo COSENZA | Riccardo DALLA NEGRA | Filippo DE ROSSI | Maurizio DE VITA | Marco DI LUDOVICO | Antonella DI LUGGO | Donatella FIORANI | Alessandro FLORA | Paolo GIORDANO | Alessandro IPPOLITI | Esin KULELI | Raffaele LANDOLFO | Alessandra MARINO | Paola MARONE | Camilla MILETO | Pietro MORETTI | Andrea PANE | Renata PICONE | Francesco PIROZZI | Marco PRETELLI | Michelangelo RUSSO | Valentina RUSSO | Fernando VEGAS | Simona SCANDURRA | Claudio VARAGNOLI | Giulio ZUCCARO

Audience

• Graduates and graduating students in Architecture, Engineering and Archaeology and Italian and foreign university institutions
• PhD students
• Professional Architects and Engineers
• Specialists and trainees at the Schools of Specialization in Architectural and Landscape Heritage

The organization of the Summer School Structure&Appearance 2024, rather than on the duplicity that may appear when looking at the structure-appearance pair, will be based on the biunivocity, between, technical needs and value needs, dealing with some macro-themes in their relative specificity, but making the confrontation for solutions work in the place of their encounter and fruitful integration. It does not pretend to be exhaustive, but through a cross-method of the different backgrounds of the candidates and through cases and sub-themes, it is intended to update and open to the issues that, by experimenting with a synthesis activity between a perceived culture of engineering and an advanced culture of restoration, can increase the educational quality of the operator and thus that of the project result.

• Geotechnics | Cultural landscape

Cultural landscape is a landscape in which nature bears the marks of man's work and tells its story, loading itself with memories and meanings. Italy is a country with coasts, valleys and mountain ranges; it involves the historical and value dimension of the territory. Risks of multiple natures require an engineering design, which is faced with a complex issue that must reconcile aspects of safety with ad hoc interventions and sensitivity to the system of historical and landscape values, trying to balance the reasons and methods of engineering, sensitive to the dynamics of soils and waters, with those of cultural landscapes. The section intends to bring attention to interventions and methods to elements with landscape impact (bridges, excavation fronts, consolidation of rocks/ cliffs) emphasising the active and constant dialogue between engineering culture and conservation culture, with case studies that stimulate the interest and design skills of the participants.

• Consolidation | Architectural restoration

The session intends to investigate the relationship that exists between consolidation, seismic improvement and architectural restoration and bring to light the most innovative intervention techniques in the field of consolidation and structural monitoring for the architectural heritage, stressing the need for the combined work and approach, in the design activity, between the structural and the more properly humanistic spheres with a view to the enhancement of the historical and figurative instances of the pre-existing artifact. The session addresses both interventions concerning structural parts (vaults, floors, roofs and traditional masonry) and historical complexes, addressing cases and examples on the use of innovative materials of the historical building considering the respect of the criteria of compatibility, distinguishability and minimum intervention. The dialogue between appearance and structure can also be argued by cases regarding problems of restoration of the modern reinforced concrete as well as with reference to the limits and potential of innovative materials.

• Heritage BIM | Diagnostics sustainability and planned preservation

The session aims to review and explore the contribution of new technologies, related to BIM for Heritage, connected to the diagnosis and knowledge of the architectural factory. A knowledge that is also interpretation of the data and that, for the purposes of design responses to the multiple instances of heritage, including those of energy sustainability and planned conservation, requires the joint work of IT experts, architects and engineers. Examples, applications and outcomes on design patrimony will be argued by investigating the latest frontiers of research in this area and highlighting its limitations and further potential.

16 June, Sunday

• Welcome greeting to participants
• Site visit e MAV

17 June, Monday

• Institutional Greetings
• Introduction and presentation

1.1 - Geotechnics | Cultural landscape

9h30-11h00

• Bridges restoration and cultural landscape
• Geotechnical engineering and safety
• Coffee break

11h30-13h00

• Excavation fronts and archaeological sites issues
• Sites and villages earthquake, etc.
• Lunch

1.2 - Workshop activities

14h30-18h00

• Atelier with the participation of experts and professors

18 June, Tuesday

2.1 - Reinforcement | Architectural conservation

• Introduction

9h30-11h00

• Structure and restoration issues
• Coffee break

11h30-13h00

• Structure and restoration issues
• Lunch

2.2 - Workshop activities

14h30-18h00

• Atelier with the participation of experts and professors

19 June, Wednesday

3.1 - H-BIM | Sustainability and planned conservation

• Introduction

9h30-11h00

• H-BIM diagnostic sustainability and monitoring
• Coffee break

11h30-13h00

• Sustainability and monitoring
• Lunch

3.2 - Workshop activities

14h30-18h00

• Atelier with the participation of experts and professors

20 June, Thursday

4.1 - Workshop activities

9h30-18h00

• Atelier with the participation of experts and professors

21 June, Friday

• Final interdisciplinary jury
• Round table and conclusions
• Preview exhibition/presentations
• Visit: Herculaneum excavations, Portici Palace Museum and Vesuvian Villa
• Conclusions and greetings

• Organizing issues: summerschool.sa2024@gmail.com
• Administrative issues: valeria.peluso@unina.it

Villa Favorita - Via Gabriele D'Annunzio, 36 (80056 Ercolano, Naples, Italy)

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