Course detail

Reconstruction and Renovation of Historical Buildings

FAST-NHB053Acad. year: 2020/2021

Cultural monuments and all the older or heritage 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.

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Ing. Lubor Kalousek, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Building Structures (PST)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Fundamental knowledge about the construction and project design process of building rehabilitation and reconstruction of historical buildings.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of constructions of vertical and horizontal building parts; constructions of roofs and roof trusses; interior finishing works; basics of the history of architecture; building constructional and historical survey; building chemistry and physics; drawing of building structures and their changes.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Not applicable.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Not applicable.

Course curriculum

1. Introduction to the subject; surveys and diagnostics of historical buildings.
2.–3. History of buildings and architectural styles in the Czech Republic.
4. 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.
5. Approaches to conservation and modification of individual building elements and structures of historical buildings and building monuments.
6. Historical building technologies: plasters of historic buildings; gypsum plasters and false vaults; stucco work.
7. Historical building technologies: painting technologies in historical eras; fresco paintings; gilding, patina coating, polychrome.
8. Historical building technologies: sgraffiti; stucco lustro; mosaic; wallpapers.
9. Vaults: fundamental overview, building technologies, faults and repairs.
10. Final lecture and summary; information on the examination.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Construction and technology of exterior and interior embellishment, wall surface finishings, decorative elements, development of fortification buildings, preservation of ruins, painting methods.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

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

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Not applicable.

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme NPC-SIS Master's 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
  • Programme NPA-SIS Master's 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
  • Programme NPC-SIS Master's 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Lubor Kalousek, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Introduction to the subject; surveys and diagnostics of historical buildings. 2.–3. History of buildings and architectural styles in the Czech Republic. 4. 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. 5. Approaches to conservation and modification of individual building elements and structures of historical buildings and building monuments. 6. Historical building technologies: plasters of historic buildings; gypsum plasters and false vaults; stucco work. 7. Historical building technologies: painting technologies in historical eras; fresco paintings; gilding, patina coating, polychrome. 8. Historical building technologies: sgraffiti; stucco lustro; mosaic; wallpapers. 9. Vaults: fundamental overview, building technologies, faults and repairs. 10. Final lecture and summary; information on the examination.

Exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Lubor Kalousek, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Introduction to practice classes; classification requirements; assignment of 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.–7. 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). 8.–9. Individual consultation; presentation of work results. 10. Submission of semestral work; credits.