MATERIAL PROBLEMS IN HISTORIC BUILDINGS AND TECHNIQUES FOR CONSERVATION
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MIMY0316
MATERIAL PROBLEMS IN HISTORIC BUILDINGS AND TECHNIQUES FOR CONSERVATION
3/0/0
DE
Turkish
5
Course Goals
The aim of this course is to provide the students the general knowledge on historic building materials, the methods used in diagnosis and documentation of historic building materials due to their types and location, theoretical knowledge on techniques and methods in material conservation, to teach the students how to do the general analyses for identification of materials and their problems in laboratory and to introduce material conservation techniques by practices, to provide the students the knowledge and skills to interpret and evaluate the methods of material diagnosis and conservation methods and to continue and complete an independent research on the subject.
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Teaching Methods and Techniques
Lecture, Laboratory, Site Trip, Term Paper.
Principle Sources
Ashurst, J., 2006, Conservation of Ruins (Butterworth-Heinemann Series in Conservation and Museology), Butterworth-Heinemann
Ashurst, J.; Ashurst, N., 1988, Practical Building Conservation, English Heritage Technical Handbook (v.1-5), Gower Publishing Ltd
Dimes, F.G.; Ashurst, J., 1998, Conservation of Building and Decorative Stone (Butterworth-Heinemann Series in Conservation and Museology), Butterworth-Heinemann; 2nd edition
Ersen, A.; Güleç, A.; Alkan, N. (danışmanlar), 2008, KUDEB Yönetmeliği ve Evrensel Koruma İlkeleri Çerçevesinde Bakım-Onarım İzinleri, Kriterleri-Önerileri, İBB KUDEB Restorasyon ve Konservasyon Laboratuvarı Yayınları:1
Feilden, B., 2003, Conservation of Historic Buildings, Third Edition (Conservation of Historic Buildings), Architectural Press, 3rd edition
Forsyth, M., 2007, Structures & Construction in Historic Building Conservation (Historic Building Conservation), Wiley-Blackwell
Forsyth, M., 2007, Understanding Historic Building Conservation (v. 1), Wiley-Blackwell; 1st edition
Forsyth, M., 2008, Materials & Skills for Historic Building Conservation (v. 3), Wiley-Blackwell
Jokilehto, J., 2002, History of Architectural Conservation (Conservation and Museology), Butterworth-Heinemann; 1st edition
Torraca, G., 1988, Porous Materials Building: Materials Science for Architectural Conservation, ICCROM; 3rd. ed edition
Weaver, M., 1997, Conserving Buildings: Guide to Techniques and Materials, Revised Edition (Paperback), Wiley; 1st edition
Other Sources
Course Schedules
Week
Contents
Learning Methods
1. Week
Introduction to the course
Lecture
2. Week
Use of materials in historic buildings, characteristics and sources of historic building materials
Lecture, Laboratory
3. Week
The process of sample collection from a historical building and introduction to lab analyses: porosity, durability, mortar ingredients analyses
Lecture, Laboratory
4. Week
The reasons for deterioration of historic building materials and structural systems: climatic causes, earthquakes, biological and microbiological causes, pests and other organisms, causes of decay of human origin, internal structure of materials
Lecture, Laboratory, Distribution of term papers
5. Week
Responsibilities of conservation architect: diagnosis, report writing, research, analysis and recording, preventive maintenance, fire and safety, rehabilitation of historic buildings
Lecture, Laboratory
6. Week
Building and material conservation techniques: removal of excess water and moisture, repointing, plaster conservation, roof and chimney repairs, diagnosis and treatment of problem sources around the building
Lecture, Laboratory
7. Week
Building and material conservation techniques: carpentry and blacksmithing works
Lecture, Laboratory
8. Week
Technical trip to successful material conservation practices in historic buildings
Technical trip, Submission of trip reports
9. Week
Midterm Exam
Exam, Laboratory
10. Week
Stone morphology and classification, deterioration and conservation of stone
Lecture, Laboratory
11. Week
Stone conservation techniques, cleaning and consolidation of stone masonry buildings
Lecture, Laboratory
12. Week
Characteristics and classification of timber, deterioration and conservation of timber
Lecture, Laboratory
13. Week
Historical mortars and plasters, their deterioration and conservation techniques
Lecture, Laboratory
14. Week
Use of brick in historic buildings, deterioration and conservation techniques of fire bricks and mud-bricks, use of metals in historic buildings, deterioration of metals, maintenance and conservation techniques
Lecture, Laboratory, Submission of term papers
15. Week
16. Week
17. Week
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Program Outcomes
PO-1
To have advenced level knowledge and realization about two different scale monument and site conservation.
PO-2
To have advenced level knowledge and realization about basic issues of conservation which are restoration theories, international modern conservation principles, national and international legal and organizational regulations and recording cultural heritage.
PO-3
To have advenced level of knowledge and realization about design principles of new addition to the historic building and infill building in historic settlement, measured drawing, restitution and restoration projects of historic building.
PO-4
To be informed and own critical awareness for utilizing from national and international examples of conservation of historical sites that are rapidly disappearing, preparing analytical surveys, preparing morphology and typology study and evaluating the data reunited from these studies.
PO-5
To gain cognitive and practice knowledge for proficiency in practice about monument and site conservation.
PO-6
To apply and integrate the knowledge, conception and problem solving ability about monument and site conservation with the knowledges from architectural history, city planning, urban design, archeology, civil engineering and such discipline areas and to apply within interdisciplinary, multi-disciplinary and upper-disciplinary contexts.
PO-7
To develop new data and methods on monument and site conservation and to have ability for merging the gained knowledge with the knowledge from the other discipline areas.
PO-8
To have ability for performing research, survey and critical evaluation on academic knowledge and design process, using approprate technics and producing unique outcomes.
PO-9
To have ability for carrying out individual study on monument and site conservation.
PO-10
To have ability for making a decision in analysis stage about monument and site conservation area, to lead projects/academic studies, to produce a work in a group by taking individual responsibility and to have ability for leading and changing complex processes.
PO-11
To have ability for transfering the gained knowledge by oral, written and visual techics in a foreign language, by using modern computer aided programs and techniques.
PO-12
To have ability for preparing a unique academic/scientific study, presenting and discussing in a dialectical frame.
PO-13
To have ability for taking strategic decisions about monument and site conservation projects and concerning ethic values while producing unique solutions.
Learning Outcomes
LO-1
To know the properties of material used in conservation of historical buildings and to have the knowldge about corruption process of materials mostly like stone, bricks, wood, and metals.
LO-2
The methodology used in documenting the problems regarding the types or the usage place of material. To have the theoretical knowledge about methodology regarding material conservation.
LO-3
To have the theoretical knowledge about, Strengthening, renovation, rebuilding, cleaning and transporting methods under the light of Venice Act.
LO-4
To realize the analysis of materials and their problems of historical buildings in the laboratory environment.
LO-5
To have the ability to manege an independent study within the knowledge that has been gained in the course.
