Syllabus 2010/2011 ABVN15

Syllabus academic year 2010/2011
(Created 2010-07-25.)

ARCHITECTURAL CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION: CULTURAL HERITAGE BUILDINGS

ABVN15

Credits: 18. Grading scale: UG. Cycle: A (Second Cycle). Main field: Architecture. Language of instruction: The course will be given in English on demand. ABVN15 overlaps following cours/es: ABV070. Optional for: A4. Course coordinator: Professor Mats Edström, mats.edstrom@byggark.lth.se, Architecture and Restoration. Prerequisites: Bachelor degree or three years of approved fulltime studies at university level in architecture, landscape architecture, design, urban planning, buildning antiquarian sciences or the equivalent. The course might be cancelled if the number of applicants is less than 10. Assessment: During the course, constant reference is made to individuals levels of knowledge: each gives a preliminary account of his or her work-in-process on a project that is assessed. At the end of the course, each gives in words, drawings and images a final account of this project that the other students assess critically. Successfully to complete the course, a student must attend not less than eighty per cent of the lectures and study visits; actively take part in drawing-office instruction, and preliminary and final assessments; and gain approval for his or her project. Further information: To this course is associated the deepening and compulsory course "Cultural Heritage Buildings, -theory" 6hp. Home page: http://www.bv.lth.se.

Aim
The aim of the course is that each student shall acquire competence in rebuilding and/or adding to buildings, or in building new ones, in an already existing, sensitive built-up area. He or she shall also be able to discuss and analyze qualities in renewal; to become competent in preserving and renewing a culture-historical built-up area; and in planning.

Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must

understand and apply central concepts in communicating and discussing developmental and design ideas in the restoration and renewal of culture-historical buildings
understand and analyze functional and technical conditions, and the culture-historical values, of such buildings as a basis for planning their renewal
develop a project for the restoration and/or renewal of sensitive architecture
applying in his or her project knowledge of traditional building materials and the skills of artisans

Skills and abilities
For a passing grade the student must

be able to make impact studies of proposals for change that take account of culture-historical, technical and functional values
develop his or her projects that take account of technical, aesthetical and functional values
use modern techniques of presentation
present proposals for change and renewal
ought to be skilled in thinking critically; in independently resolving problems; in arguing convincingly; and working alone and in groups
be able to investigate and understand the functional, technical and aesthetical qualities of culture-historical buildings or built-up areas
be creative, for example in thinking in an innovative way

Judgement and approach
For a passing grade the student must

be able to apply the Swedish authorities demands for care when altering and/or renewing a building or an entire built-up environment
in taking a holistic view of a building and the process of changing it, take into account health, environmental, climatic, safety and access considerations

An architects restoration work requires careful preliminary study and great detail in planning, and in its designs it should avoid superficial trends and tendencies.

Contents
The course addresses buildings of culture-historic value. The course gives knowledge and understanding of, and training in, design having to do with encounters between new and old architecture. The course also focuses on the function, design, material, administration and renewal of buildings. It gives training in how to adapt buildings to contemporary requirements for functions, technical equipment, design and access by physically-handicapped persons. It also examines relevant Swedish legislation, and Swedish demands for care in rebuilding, as well as rebuilding processes.

The course includes: preliminary investigations; modern methods of surveying and estimating damage; capacity analysis and culture-historical evaluation; sketches and reference studies; impact analyses and proposals for remedies; descriptions of buildings, detailed drawings; sample of colours and materials; presentations using modern methods of projection; current Swedish legislation on changes to existing buildings; and international codes and organization.

Literature
Bedoire, F. Restaurering under hundra år ur Kulturvärden 2005:2. pdf: www.sfv.se, 2006-09-13
Björk, C. Sekelskiftets byggteknik: om arkitekten Valfrid Karlsson - byggnadsverk och läroböcker. Svensk byggtjänst 1988. ISBN: 91-7332-458-2
Boverket BBR BFS 1993:5 med ändringar (2006-09-13)
Siré, E. Varsam tillgänglighet; vid ändring av byggnader och byggd miljö. Svensk byggtjänst 2001. ISBN: 91-7332-976-2