After successful completion of the course, students are able to analyse historic buildings in order to have an understanding of their construction. The practical application of building archaeological methods on completion of the course allows students to investigate aspects including design choices, construction techniques and construction phases and processes.
The building survey object in WS 2022 is an ancient temple mausoleum in Rome, the so-called Cenotaph of Annia Regilla in the Caffarella Valley.
As part of our building documentation there will be a special focus on structural details such as various types of masonry, construction with "roman concrete" (opus caementitium) as well as construction site logistics of antiquity. Building analysis will then consider relevant facts of architectural history concerning topics like "building- and functional typologies", "sepulcral architecture" (necropolis, mausoleum, catacomb), "live and death along the Via Appia" and much more.
collective on-site inspection for a initial understanding of the object
self-reliant approach into the subject using analytical sketching
manifacturing of preliminary plan-material to work with using hand-measurement supported by tachymetry (in small groups)
self-reliant documentation of the status quo by applying various methods of analysis - sketching, pictures, hand-measurement, tachymetry, image-rectification as well as photogrammetry and laserscanning (in focus areas for small groups)
self-reliant documentation of relevant details, findings and mappings (in focus areas for small groups - supervised)
comparison with historic image sources and literature + discussion
continous review of analysis in small groups
presentation and discussion of results
incorporation of results into a so called building documentation folder
printed as well as digital submission of building documentation folder containing all results of building analysis
digital submission of results of documentation as well as architectural drawings according to predefined formatting
expected is a basic knowledge in sketching and manifacturing of architectural drawings
experience in surveying and written communication of architectural topics with scientific intent is beneficial
lectures and exercises of the Institute of History of Art, Building Archeology and Restoration
