scholarly journals Learning from the Building: Direct Sources for the Preservation Project. The Experience of Besozzo's Town Hall (Varese, Italy)

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 48-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanna Bortolotto ◽  
Elisabetta Ciocchini ◽  
Andrea Frigo ◽  
Andrea Garzulino ◽  
Raffaella Simonelli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
City Centre ◽  
Physical Analysis ◽  
Town Hall ◽  
Architectural Elements ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Chronological Sequence ◽  
Archival Documentation ◽  
Building Activities ◽  
The Town ◽  
Non Destructive

The Town Hall of Besozzo (Varese, Italy) is located in the city centre of the village and its first construction phase is dated back to the XIV-XV century. It shows a complex palimpsest which is the result of the numerous transformations occurred during its life: enlargements, super elevations, demolitions, inner spaces subdivisions and use changes. Currently a project has been issued for the reuse of the building which assigns new spaces for the town offices to the northern wing recently acquired. The aim of the research was to provide a diagnostic insight, useful for the development of the conservation project which will necessarily take into account the multitude of values registered on the building. Owing to a lack of meaningful archival documentation, the elevation’s stratigraphic reading and the methods for dating historical buildings proved to be an invaluable resource for the comprehension of the building’s transformations. Cross-referencing readings of indirect sources carried on the building with the results of the in-depth analysis made it possible to rebuild the growth of the structure from its origin to the present days. Such analysis includes: geometric survey, photographic rectifications of facade and inner sections, non-destructive diagnostic investigations, bricks, mortar and plaster chemical-physical analysis, mensiochronology, study of the building techniques and chronotypology which is a stylistic analysis performed both on the constructive (apertures) and decorative (shelves, graffiti, colourings traces) architectural elements. Blending the results of these dating techniques produced the complexity of the stratigraphic reading which has been conveyed with adequate hatching on the rectified images (U.S. – Stratigraphic Unity) while schematic 3D reconstructions exemplify the chronological sequence of the building activities. Individuation and comprehension of the building constructive phases made also possible to understand which were the different uses of each room inside this domestic architecture thus providing the client and the bodies in charge of protection with valuable data for the preservation project.

scholarly journals Da fortezza a residenza castellana: osservazioni stratigrafiche per la comprensione del processo trasformativo della Rocca di Novellara (RE, Italia)

X ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Squassina
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Direct Observation ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Reggio Emilia ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Town Hall ◽  
Chronological Sequence ◽  
The City ◽  
The Town

From a fortress to a residential castle: a stratigraphic reading of the transformations in the Rocca of Novellara (RE, Italy)The paper reports the results of a stratigraphic reading on the northern façade of the Rocca di Novellara (Reggio Emilia, Italy), a castle which is now the town hall, right in the city centre. Though as a pole of the contemporary public life in Novellara, housing at present both a museum and a nineteenth century theatre, the Rocca recalls its military past through its name and by means of the still standing remains of the walls and corner towers. Besides a well-documented historical development, the stratigraphic investigation of the northern façade –the only part that still hasn’t been restored– allowed a direct observation of the material traces revealing the slow transformation of the Rocca from a fortification to a residential castle. This study gave the chance of understanding the different constructive phases of the castle, making a chronological sequence out of them but it was also meant to reflect about the changes of its character, as the building has been acquiring a complex identity through time, due both to high qualified architectural episodes and to as much meaningful though tiny changes. Thus, the permanence of the stratified marks can be regarded as one of the main goals of a preservation project.

Campus Diversity: Implementing the Town Hall Approach for Racial and Cultural Understanding at a Predominantly White University

NASPA Journal ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Celina Valentina Echols ◽  
Young Suk Hwang ◽  
Connie Nobles
Keyword(s):  
Predominantly White ◽  
Campus Climate ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Town Hall ◽  
Campus Diversity ◽  
Predominantly White University ◽  
Attitudes And Knowledge ◽  
Race 2 ◽  
The Town ◽  
Cultural Interactions

This paper uses students’ responses from the dialogues of a town hall meeting to examine the beliefs, attitudes, and knowledge about racial and cultural diversity at a mid-size, predominantly white university in Louisiana. The four major themes that emerged from this experience were: (1) perceptions about race, (2) stereotypical beliefs about cross-cultural interactions, (3) uncomfortable campus climate, and (4) disequilibria associated with prejudicial teaching by parents. Implications and recommendations for increasing positive cross-cultural interactions among members of the campus community are discussed.

scholarly journals The Cross Roads of Heritage

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Philippa Dalgety
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Adaptive Reuse ◽  
Built Form ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
History Of ◽  
Fit For Purpose ◽  
The Town

<p>This research explores an approach for adaptive reuse to enhance livability and greater connection to place within provincial towns of New Zealand. There are existing buildings which are often left in disrepair or considered too expensive to refurbish or strengthen. They are often demolished with little consideration to the building’s significance, therefore adaptive reuse has become a missed opportunity in New Zealand.  Many of our provincial cities have uninhabited large-scale buildings, which need upgrading due to being outdated and no longer fit for purpose. Seismic upgrading is a key factor in why these buildings are left uninhabited. One of the urban areas which this is prevalent is Whanganui. Whanganui has the opportunity to blend the old and the new built form to create a revitalized and timeless street appearance.   The regeneration of Whanganui can be achieved through adaptive reuse to enhance the crafted beauty of the town through its architecture. The revitalization of Whanganui can give guidance to other provincial cities in New Zealand while enhancing the quality of life within the town.  An in-depth analysis of the history of Whanganui, will allow for heritage significance to play a major role in the redesign. This design will be developed at three different scales to demonstrate how the built form can enhance connection to place and livability. These scales are at an urban, a built and a detailed scale.   The main cross roads linking the city of Whanganui to its river is surrounded by character and historical buildings. It will be used as a key area illustrating Whanganui’s past to better inform the future.</p>

scholarly journals Heritage and Participation: a case study of advocacy in post-earthquake Christchurch

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Rebecca Margaret Halliday Ford
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
Local Politics ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Town Hall ◽  
Documentary Sources ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Town

<p>This dissertation explores the advocacy for the Christchurch Town Hall that occurred in 2012-2015 after the Canterbury Earthquakes. It frames this advocacy as an instance of collective-action community participation in a heritage decision, and explores the types of heritage values it expressed, particularly social values. The analysis contextualises the advocacy in post-quake Christchurch, and considers its relationship with other developments in local politics, heritage advocacy, and urban activism. In doing so, this dissertation considers how collective action operates as a form of public participation, and the practical implications for understanding and recognising social value.  This research draws on studies of practices that underpin social value recognition in formal heritage management. Social value is held by communities outside institutions. Engaging with communities enables institutions to explore the values of specific places, and to realise the potential of activating local connections with heritage places. Such projects can be seen as participatory practices. However, these processes require skills and resources, and may not be appropriate for all places, communities and institutions. However, literature has understudied collective action as a form of community participation in heritage management. All participation processes have nuances of communities, processes, and context, and this dissertation analyses these in one case. The research specifically asked what heritage values (especially social values) were expressed through collective action, what the relationship was with the participation processes, communities, and wider situation that produced them, and the impact on institutional rhetoric and decisions. The research analysed values expressed in representations made to council in support of the Town Hall. It also used documentary sources and interviews with key informants to analyse the advocacy and decision-making processes and their relationships with the wider context and other grassroots activities. The analysis concluded that the values expressed intertwined social and professional values. They were related to the communities and circumstance that produced them, as an advocacy campaign for a civic heritage building from a Western architectural tradition. The advocacy value arguments were one of several factors that impacted the decision. They have had a lasting impact on rhetoric around the Town Hall, as was a heritage-making practice in its own right. This dissertation makes a number of contributions to the discussion of social value and community in heritage. It suggests connections between advocacy and participation perspectives in heritage. It recommends consideration of nuances of communities, context, and place meanings when using heritage advocacy campaigns as evidence of social value. It adds to the literature on heritage advocacy, and offers a focused analysis of one of many heritage debates that occurred in post-quake Christchurch. Ultimately, it encourages practice to actively integrate social and community values and to develop self-reflexive engagement and valuation processes. Despite inherent challenges, participatory processes offer opportunities to diversify understandings of value, co-produce heritage meanings with communities, and empower citizens in democratic processes around the places they live with and love.</p>

scholarly journals An overview on the non-destructive in-depth surface analysis of corrosion-resistant films: A case study of W-xCr deposits in 12 M HCl solution

BIBECHANA ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 201-213
Author(s):  
Jagadish Bhattarai
Keyword(s):  
Corrosion Resistance ◽  
Depth Profiling ◽  
Surface Films ◽  
High Corrosion Resistance ◽  
Corrosion Rates ◽  
High Corrosion ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Sputter Deposited ◽  
Non Destructive ◽  
Hcl Solution

Non-destructive in-depth analysis of the surface films formed on the sputter-deposited binary W-xCr (x = 25, 57, 91 at %) alloys in 12 M HCl solution open to air at 30 °C was investigated using an angle-resolved X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic (AR-XPS) technique to understand the synergistic corrosion resistance effects of showing very low corrosion rates, even lower than both alloying metals of the deposits. The average corrosion rates of these three tungsten-based sputter deposits found to be more than five orders of magnitude (between 3.1 × 10−3 and 7.2 × 10−3 mm/y) to that of chromium and also nearly one order of magnitude lower than that of tungsten metals. Such high corrosion resistance of the sputter-deposited W-xCr alloys is due to the formation of homogeneous passive double oxyhydroxide film consisting of Wox and Cr4+ cations without any concentration gradient in-depth after immersion in 12 M HCl solution open to air at 30 °C from the study of the non-destructive depth profiling technique of AR-XPS. Consequently, both alloying elements of tungsten and niobium are acted synergistically in enhancing high corrosion resistance properties of the alloys in such aggressive electrolyte. BIBECHANA 18 (2021) 201-213

scholarly journals Tales from Münchhausen's country: forensic psychiatry in Germany

1989 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 670-672
Author(s):  
Gwen Jones
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Hospital ◽  
Forensic Psychiatry ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Town Hall ◽  
The Town

It was with some surprise that I learnt I should be settling but a stone's throw away from Baron von Münchhausen's birthplace in today's West Germany. The house at Bodenwerder on the Weser where he was born now serves as the town hall; the Münchhausen family had obviously been influential in the area for when I began to work in the psychiatric hospital at Moringen, I found that the original building had been erected by them in 1738.

scholarly journals Revolutionen i Sæby

Kulturstudier ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jørgen Mührmann-Lund
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Town Hall ◽  
Revolutionary Movement ◽  
Abuse Of Power ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
The Town ◽  
The French Revolution ◽  
The Revolution

The revolution in Saeby   In 1790, the citizens of the tiny town of Saeby in northern Jutland demanded a meeting at the Town Hall to confront the town bailiff about his abuse of power as chief of police, but the bailiff refused to obey any “self-made national assemblies”. In Denmark at the time, such examples of popular local unrest were often compared with the French Revolution. However, in later Danish historiography, these disturbances have been seen as “reactive” defences of traditional rights that do not carry the same historical significance as the bourgeois revolution in France, for example. Inspired by an interactional approach to popular unrest, this article argues that the Saeby citizens’ collective protest did indeed have some revolutionary traits: a micro-historical analysis of the conflict as a process shows that the unrest began as a reaction to enclosure and police reforms, and when the town bailiff was suspected of embezzlement, demands for democracy and more transparency grew. Descriptions of the bailiff’s rule as “despotic” show that the citizens of Saeby were inspired by contemporary ideals of democratic absolutism. Thus, the article concludes that popular local disturbances such as these should be seen as part of the revolutionary movement that was taking place elsewhere at that time.

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