MOOCs

WOODEN BUILT HERITAGE AS A RENEWABLE RESOURCE FOR LOCAL DEVELOPMENT

The course provides a comprehensive analysis of the renewal of wooden heritage (both in terms of value and technology), combining heritage protection requirements with modern needs and technical possibilities.

This course is intended for technicians and professionals working with the heritage of wooden buildings, as well as owners or managers. Interdisciplinary cooperation and the search for common solutions by all stakeholders is particularly important in modern heritage protection. We aim to convey an interdisciplinary international practice that allows us to address alternatives for the renewal of wooden architecture by assessing resources, internal and environmental factors, technological suitability and the circumstances of their application.

WOODEN BUILT HERITAGE – SUSTAINABLE BUILT ENVIRONMENT – ENERGY EFFICIENCY – RENOVATION

ACCOMPANIED SELF-RENOVATION HABITABILITY AND SAFETY CONDITIONS IMPROVEMENT.

The course objective is to provide useful tools (techniques and successful interventions) for an “accompanied self-renovation”.

This Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) is aimed primarily at technicians and professionals showing ‘bottom-up’ rehabilitations based on the needs and capabilities of the resident population. The contents will include interventions to improve indoor air quality and buildings’ health, safety and risk prevention, flexibility and versatility of spaces, improvements for the adequacy of spaces and accessibility, improvements in hydrothermal comfort, lighting, and use guidelines.

MINIMAL INTERVENTION STRATEGIES – SAFETY – HYDROTHERMAL COMFORT – VERSATILITY – SELF-RENOVATION – ENERGY PERFORMANCES – ADAPTABILITY – SUSTAINABILITY

CONSERVATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY OF VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE

This course is aimed primarily to scholars and professionals, in order to provide an introduction to the environmental features and strategies of vernacular architecture encountered in both urban and building scale.

Particularly, this course highlights vernacular heritage significance, incorporated lessons regarding sustainability, threats related to physical degradation and lack of maintenance, as well as international regulatory framework regarding vernacular dwellings. Also, the course presents  the methodology approach and good practices for environmental friendly conservation, enhancing the passive performance of vernacular buildings and the Integration of passive and active systems

REHABILITATION – VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE – ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY CONSERVATION – PASSIVE STRATEGIES

APPROACHES, TECHNIQUES AND INTERVENTIONS FOR THE REHABILITATION/RESTORATION OF ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE

The course is aimed at providing tools (techniques and interventions) useful to show and explain virtuous examples of the recovery/restoration practice.

This course is based on an academic approach to solve different technical problems that may arise in the rehabilitation/restoration of the traditional architectural heritage, with a particular focus on the Mediterranean area.

The course is intended as an operational tool of comprehension of the most popular and innovative recovery techniques widely used in the recovery of historical and traditional architecture, offering general examples and also cases of originality.

INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUES – PRESERVATION – EXPERIMENTATION – RECOVERY TRADITIONAL PRACTICE – TECHNOLOGY