The Great Timber Roof of Porta Nuova Railway Station in Turin: The Role of Assessment and Diagnosis for Sustainable Repair and Conservation

Cestari, C. Bertolini; Brino, Giovanni; Cestari, Luciana; Crivellaro, Alan; Marzi, Tanja; Pignatelli, Olivia; Rolla, Steni; Violante, Alberto

doi:10.1080/15583058.2018.1497226

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“…(a) (b) From the literature, Italian case studies are rather limited, and only four of them concern the theme of sustainability. Overall, they focus on: the assessment and design of sustainable intervention, the criteria for deconstruction, the influence of temperature and humidity, biocomposites, and the wood panels with the oriented strand board (OSB) [20][21][22][23].…”

Section: Mapping Of Literature On Historical Timber Roof Structuresmentioning

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HBIM-Based Decision-Making Approach for Sustainable Diagnosis and Conservation of Historical Timber Structures

2023

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Historical timber roofs play a significant role in architectural heritage, as listed in the World Heritage List protected by UNESCO. Despite their complexity, they are frequently lacking in maintenance, with the consequence that only a few original examples have been preserved until today, contradicting the principle of minimum intervention. In the paper, a decision-making approach has been proposed for the best and most sustainable solution, in which tradition and innovation meet to achieve the maximum quality with minimum intervention. With an emphasis on sustainability (environmental, economic, technological, historic, and social), analyses have been carried out in order to compare various intervention alternatives, modeled in a Heritage-Building Information Modeling (HBIM) environment, assessed using the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP), and implemented with the multi-criteria Modelo Integrado de cuantificacion de Valor para Edificacion Sostenibles (MIVES) methodology. The case study is the roof of the Michelangelo Cloister in the Diocletian Baths in Rome, which is a significant example of historical timber roofs. The results are given in terms of a quantitative sustainability index SI, which takes into account different alternatives of intervention, including the task of diagnosis.

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Section: Mapping Of Literature On Historical Timber Roof Structuresmentioning

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HBIM-Based Decision-Making Approach for Sustainable Diagnosis and Conservation of Historical Timber Structures

2023

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“…This step is an essential part of the preliminary survey with the aim of gathering information about the historical aspects of the building and its status. Moreover, any intervention, restoration or change in loading conditions during its lifetime [20,21], in addition to past exposure to different risks, must be identified and recorded.…”

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“…Timber roofs are mostly vulnerable to wind risk, and several studies have been carried out to assess the vulnerability of heritage timber roofs subjected to wind load [21,98,[123][124][125][126][127][128]. For this purpose, a linear analysis is performed on a numerical model of the roofs in order to evaluate the critical elements and derive the displacement of the structure.…”

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Structural Vulnerability Assessment of Heritage Timber Buildings: A Methodological Proposal

Shabani

Kioumarsi

Plevris

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Forests

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The conservation of heritage structures is pivotal not only due to their cultural or historical importance for nations, but also for understanding their construction techniques as a lesson that can be applied to contemporary structures. Timber is considered to be the oldest organic construction material and is more vulnerable to environmental threats than nonorganic materials such as masonry bricks. In order to assess the structural vulnerability of heritage timber structures subjected to different types of risk, knowledge about their structural systems and configurations, the nature and properties of the materials, and the behavior of the structure when subjected to different risks, is essential for analysts. In order to facilitate the procedure, different assessment methods have been divided into the categories in situ and ex situ, which are applicable for vulnerability assessments at the element and full-scale level of a case study. An existing methodology for structural vulnerability assessments and conservation of heritage timber buildings is reviewed and a new methodology is proposed.

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“…Researchers such as Bertolini (Bertolini-Cestari et al, 2016;Bertolini-Cestari, 2019;Cestari et al, 2011;Spano et al, 2015) have detailed the restorations of some historical buildings, such as the great timber roof of Porta Nuova railway station in Turin (Italy), the timber roof structures of the Cathedral of Vercelli and the roof of Valentino Castle in Turin (Italy) with their processes, methods and innovative technologies. concluded that a proper analysis on timber elements made the restoration easier and more accurate.…”

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Experimental evaluation of dowel-type timber joints with wooden dowels

Teodorescu

Pereira

Aquino

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Structures

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Dowel-type timber joints made of wood are of particular interest for interventions on built heritage because such heritage buildings often involve timber structures. Wooden dowels offer a lower cost when compared with other connectors and conform to the tendency for using wood-based solutions to retrofit timber structures. However, there is a significant lack of information regarding the modelling of these wooden connectors’ responses, in terms of analytical expressions as numerical models. Therefore, this paper presents the results of an extensive experimental campaign of timber-to-timber joints using wooden dowels. Two wood species were considered: chestnut as a hardwood and spruce as a softwood. The wooden dowels were always made of massaranduba, a Brazilian hardwood. The aim of the experimental campaign was to obtain and analyse the response of this type of connection, and then to compare it with the load-carrying capacity accessed through the available analytical expressions to verify its accuracy. The test results highlighted the advantages of using wooden dowels in timber joints. Moreover, it became clear that further analysis and research studies are needed to suggest new expressions that are in accordance with the behaviour of the connection.

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The Great Timber Roof of Porta Nuova Railway Station in Turin: The Role of Assessment and Diagnosis for Sustainable Repair and Conservation

Cited by 8 publications

References 3 publications

HBIM-Based Decision-Making Approach for Sustainable Diagnosis and Conservation of Historical Timber Structures

HBIM-Based Decision-Making Approach for Sustainable Diagnosis and Conservation of Historical Timber Structures

Structural Vulnerability Assessment of Heritage Timber Buildings: A Methodological Proposal

Experimental evaluation of dowel-type timber joints with wooden dowels

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