All design work on protected structures requires specific expertise and appropriate strategies. This course offers students the opportunity to study the manifold requirements that are needed to conserve, restore, renovate and administrate a historic monument.

This course concerns an office building, which was designed by Giovanni Michelucci for the italian postal company in Florence. Since 2000, the building is partially empty and needs new strategies of appropriate utilisation and integration into the urban surroundings. These strategies should conserve the existing structures, as well as allow new functions. 

The course contains a one week stay (31.03.2019 - 06.04.2019) in Florence, Italy.

Introductory meeting: Tuesday 12.03.2019 at 09:00, SEM 257.

Course dates: every Tuesday between 9:00 and 13:00, Sem 257.

Application via application pool on TISS.

Application procedure: a letter of motivation (approx. half a DIN A4 page) as a part of the portfolio or by e-mail to dimitri.egorov@tuwien.ac.at

This design studio is coupled with the course 251.812 "excursion for monument preservation".