Syllabus 2011/2012 ABVN11

Syllabus academic year 2011/2012
(Created 2011-09-01.)

CULTURAL HERITAGE BUILDINGS, THEORY

ABVN11

Credits: 7,5. Grading scale: UG. Cycle: A (Second Cycle). Main field: Architecture. Language of instruction: The course might be given in English. ABVN11 overlaps following cours/es: ABVN10. Optional for: A4. Course coordinator: Professor Mats Edström, 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. 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 paper that is assessed. At the end of the course, each gives in words 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 preliminary and final assessments; and gain approval for his or her paper. Further information: This course is a theoretical deepening and compulsoury to "Cultural Heritage Buildings, -project" 18hp, but is also open to other qualified students. 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 throuhghout the whole process.

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

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
ought to be skilled in thinking critically; in independently resolving problems and in arguing convincingly
be able to investigate and understand the functional, technical and aesthetical qualities of culture-historical buildings or built-up areas

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 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, 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; reference studies; impact analyses and proposals for remedies; descriptions of buildings, current Swedish legislation on changes to existing buildings; and international codex' and organizations are studied.

Literature
Bedoire, F. Restaurering under hundra år ur Kulturvärden 2005:2. pdf: www.sfv.se, 2006-09-13 Boverket BBR BFS 1993:5 med ändringar (2006-09-13)
Edman, V. En svensk restaureringstradition - tre arkitekter gestaltar 1900-talets historiesyn. Byggförlaget 1999. ISBN: 91-7988-186-6
Hantverket i gamla hus. Svenska Byggnadsvårdsförenignen. Balkong förlag 2007. ISBN: 978-91-85581-09-2
Siré, E. Varsam tillgänglighet; vid ändring av byggnader och byggd miljö Svensk byggtjänst 2001. ISBN: 91-7332-976-2
Internet
ICOMOS, Charters, www.icomos.com (2007-10-22)
World Heritage Convention, www.whc.unesco.org (2007-10-22)