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Papers by Andrea Ugolini

ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences

G. BISCONTIN, G. DRIUSSI (a cura di), Metalli in Architettura. Conoscenza, Conservazione, Innovazione. Atti del Convegno di Studi, Bressanone 30 giugno-3 luglio 2015, Edizioni Arcadia Ricerche, Marghera-Venezia 2015, pp. 123-134.

COR-TEN is an American patent generally identifying a group of steel alloys, developed in order t... more COR-TEN is an American patent generally identifying a group of steel alloys, developed in order to improve the response to weathering exposure. Thanks to its substantial properties of CORrosion resistance and TENsile strength, to the reduced need for maintenance and, above all, to the aesthetic value of its surfaces able to establish consonant relationships between the ancient and the new, it is one of the most widespread materials in the project for the pre-existence.
Analysing the interaction with the environment, deepening the technical solutions adopted and gathering the underlying reasons, the essay aims at studying some realised projects closely, projects that can be considered smart interpretations of the contemporary addiction in ancient contexts where the weathering steel becomes a designing paradigm. On account of a series of interviews, the research aspires to understand how these interventions have been stratifying through the history.

Journal of Cultural Heritage, 2013

ABSTRACT Since the beginning of modern theories on restoration, in the first half of the 19th cen... more ABSTRACT Since the beginning of modern theories on restoration, in the first half of the 19th century, it seems that the problem of technological plants in historic buildings has been explicitly treated on few occasions. More than one and a half century later, several “generations” of plants have been installed in historic buildings or in buildings, which have meanwhile become historic, and a more attentive attitude has been developed, consisting in the preservation rather than the restoration of ancient architecture, and rethinking that attitude seems as important, as accepting the fact that plants themselves have become important documents that have to be preserved. This paper would like to illustrate why the preservation of historical plants is necessary, not only to attest the technological evolution of the plants themselves in relation to the changing ways of life and the life of buildings, but also to attest that they can sometimes be re-employed depending on their typology through the use of new technological products, drawing advantage from their potentiality.

ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences

G. BISCONTIN, G. DRIUSSI (a cura di), Metalli in Architettura. Conoscenza, Conservazione, Innovazione. Atti del Convegno di Studi, Bressanone 30 giugno-3 luglio 2015, Edizioni Arcadia Ricerche, Marghera-Venezia 2015, pp. 123-134.

COR-TEN is an American patent generally identifying a group of steel alloys, developed in order t... more COR-TEN is an American patent generally identifying a group of steel alloys, developed in order to improve the response to weathering exposure. Thanks to its substantial properties of CORrosion resistance and TENsile strength, to the reduced need for maintenance and, above all, to the aesthetic value of its surfaces able to establish consonant relationships between the ancient and the new, it is one of the most widespread materials in the project for the pre-existence.
Analysing the interaction with the environment, deepening the technical solutions adopted and gathering the underlying reasons, the essay aims at studying some realised projects closely, projects that can be considered smart interpretations of the contemporary addiction in ancient contexts where the weathering steel becomes a designing paradigm. On account of a series of interviews, the research aspires to understand how these interventions have been stratifying through the history.

Journal of Cultural Heritage, 2013

ABSTRACT Since the beginning of modern theories on restoration, in the first half of the 19th cen... more ABSTRACT Since the beginning of modern theories on restoration, in the first half of the 19th century, it seems that the problem of technological plants in historic buildings has been explicitly treated on few occasions. More than one and a half century later, several “generations” of plants have been installed in historic buildings or in buildings, which have meanwhile become historic, and a more attentive attitude has been developed, consisting in the preservation rather than the restoration of ancient architecture, and rethinking that attitude seems as important, as accepting the fact that plants themselves have become important documents that have to be preserved. This paper would like to illustrate why the preservation of historical plants is necessary, not only to attest the technological evolution of the plants themselves in relation to the changing ways of life and the life of buildings, but also to attest that they can sometimes be re-employed depending on their typology through the use of new technological products, drawing advantage from their potentiality.