Historic Building Conservation

Updated course

Level of qualification: Bachelor

ECTS credits: 6

Responsible partner: 
National University of Architecture and Construction of Armenia (NUACA), Armenia

Course overview / general description: Restoration, conservation, adaptation for new functions, maintenance, design conservation and planning of new projects. Introduction to modern conservation criteria. General concepts. Preventive and invasive conservation. Methods for stopping the processes of destruction and reducing risks in use: creating a favourable environment, monitoring the temperature and humidity conditions, measures to protect against natural and man-made emergencies, protection against bio defeats, atmospheric pollution, wetting, and weathering. Protection against vandalism, reducing the damage risk. Creating a favourable socio-cultural environment. Strengthening structural elements. Survey of the cultural heritage site, determination of the degree of reasonable intervention. Justification and evaluation of decisions made. Application of conservation criteria in practice. Diagnostics, safety assessment and intervention planning. The choice of new functions, the ratio of forms and content. Engineering systems in architectural monuments. Case studies. Analysis of conservation and restoration of heritage sites in practical design.