Seismic Damage to Churches: Observations from the L’Aquila, Italy, Earthquake and Considerations on a Case-Study

2010 ◽  
Vol 133-134 ◽  
pp. 641-646 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luigia Binda ◽  
Claudio Chesi ◽  
Maria Adelaide Parisi
Keyword(s):  
Seismic Behavior ◽  
Central Italy ◽  
Seismic Damage ◽  
Crack Pattern ◽  
Damage Analysis ◽  
Classification Procedure ◽  
General Terms ◽  
Heritage Buildings ◽  
The City

The earthquake that hit the city of L’Aquila, in central Italy, on the 6th of April 2009 has severely damaged most of the heritage buildings of the area. Soon after the event, a first survey of damage to ancient churches and palaces has been carried out according to a predefined classification procedure. Subsequently, a more detailed damage analysis was started in order to facilitate decision on future interventions. For one of these churches, S. Biagio Amiterno, damage consisted in the collapse of the upper part of the façade, in the localized collapse of the main vault, and in an extended crack pattern in vaults, columns, and walls. This damage pattern is interpreted here as case study. In more general terms, the exam of specific case studies gives the possibility of shedding light on various issues related to the seismic behavior of the building typologies concerned.

scholarly journals Nodes and Networks: The Generative Role of Cultural Heritage for Urban Revival in Kikinda

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 2509 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uroš Radosavljević ◽  
Aleksandra Đorđević ◽  
Kseniјa Lalović ◽  
Jelena Živković ◽  
Zoran Đukanović
Keyword(s):  
Social Sustainability ◽  
City Development ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
Cultural Artifact ◽  
Urban Heritage ◽  
Heritage Buildings ◽  
The City

Using heritage as a cultural artifact in city development is not new, but little has been explored about how urban heritage can be utilized as new generative value and a new planning instrument for the revival of cities. The purpose of this paper is to show the creative and the generative use of urban heritage, both for the extension of cultural and tourist offer of the city and for the improvement of the quality of life in physical, social and economic terms for the community. The case study method was used for the adaptive reuse of projects for heritage buildings and urban revival in Kikinda. We argue that urban heritage has to be used, bearing in mind its spatial, economic and social sustainability aspects, and become a generator of urban revival. We go beyond recognition of the value of heritage as a cultural artifact that should solely be preserved and used as a static element in urban development, and view it more as a dynamic asset for city revival processes. We found that for the heritage nodes to be utilized as the new generative value for the revival of cities, they have to be perceived from the network perspective, thus influencing the urban environment in a sustainable way.

Deterministic 3D seismic damage analysis of Guandi concrete gravity dam: A case study

2017 ◽  
Vol 148 ◽  
pp. 263-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gaohui Wang ◽  
Yongxiang Wang ◽  
Wenbo Lu ◽  
Mao Yu ◽  
Chao Wang
Keyword(s):  
Seismic Damage ◽  
Gravity Dam ◽  
Damage Analysis ◽  
3D Seismic ◽  
Concrete Gravity Dam

GIS-Based Seismic Damage Estimation: Case Study for the City of Kelowna, BC

2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. N. Alam ◽  
S. Tesfamariam ◽  
M. Shahria Alam
Keyword(s):  
Seismic Damage ◽  
Damage Estimation ◽  
The City

scholarly journals Parameters for Public Space Architecture. Informal Commerce Dynamics, as an Opportunity to Stimulate Urban Scenarios. Case Study Cali-Colombia

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Gustavo Arteaga ◽  
Edier Segura ◽  
Diego Escobar
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
City Center ◽  
Interesting Phenomenon ◽  
The Public ◽  
General Terms ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government ◽  
Space Architecture ◽  
The City

In the last decades, the occupation of the pedestrian routes and in general of the public space in the city center of Cali Colombia, have been evidencing diverse phenomena, which to a great extent respond to the accelerated growth of the urban population, where the migrations that have occurred in the interior of the country (fruit of the social conflicts of the last decades), have particularly marked the realities. In Cali, on 10th and 15th streets, near the Government Building, the Palace of Justice and the Municipal Administrative Center - CAM, the public space in general terms has been stressed in a particular way, which has generated conflicts in the surfaces designed for the pedestrians, since they are occupied by vendors in the midst of the informality routines, forcing the pedestrian to use the automobile tracks being a notorious and interesting phenomenon, when observing the factors that produce it and using them as parameters in the design of architectural spaces that contribute to improvement.

Post-Seismic Damage Assessment of a Historical Masonry Building: The Case Study of a School in Teramo

2017 ◽  
Vol 747 ◽  
pp. 620-627 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Colonna ◽  
Stefania Imperatore ◽  
Maria Zucconi ◽  
Barbara Ferracuti
Keyword(s):  
Central Italy ◽  
Damage Index ◽  
Vulnerability Index ◽  
Seismic Damage ◽  
Seismic Intensity ◽  
Masonry Building ◽  
Seismic Action ◽  
Damage Level ◽  
Historical Masonry

The historical masonry buildings are characterised by a great vulnerability regard the seismic action, as the recent events occurred in Central Italy have highlighted. During the seismic emergency the authors, in collaboration with the Civil Protection Department as part of the ReLUIS activities, have carried out usability inspections, analysing also the case study described in this paper. The structure, a school in Teramo, was already affected by previously seismic damages and it has been highly involved by the seismic events abovementioned. In this work the results of first inspection, reported in the AeDES form, and a more accurate visual inspection are presented in terms of detection of the crack patterns and evaluation of the seismic damages index. Moreover the vulnerability index has been calculated according to the GNDT 2° level method. The vulnerability index is finally used to calculate the damage index expected for the seismic intensity registered during the seismic event of October 30, 2016, and compared with the observed post-seismic damage level.

Perception and Communication of Seismic Risk: The 6 April 2009 L'Aquila Earthquake Case Study

2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fausto Marincioni ◽  
Federica Appiotti ◽  
Maurizio Ferretti ◽  
Caterina Antinori ◽  
Paola Melonaro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Central Italy ◽  
Historical Earthquakes ◽  
Earthquake Risk ◽  
Emergency Plans ◽  
Seismic Safety ◽  
Structural Resistance ◽  
2009 L’Aquila Earthquake ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The City

On Monday, 6 April 2009 at 3:32 a.m. (local time), a moment magnitude 6.3 earthquake with an epicenter located near the city of L'Aquila, in central Italy, killed 308 people, injured 1,500, left 22,000 homeless, and temporarily displaced another 65,000. This study examines a sample of the affected population and finds that despite the long list of historical earthquakes that struck the region and the swarm of foreshocks occurring up to four months before the main shock of 6 April, the residents of L'Aquila had a rather low earthquake risk perception and an unjustified confidence in the seismic safety of their houses. This low perception of earthquake risk and ignorance of the real structural resistance of buildings appear to have inhibited the individual and collective propensity to develop emergency plans. This situation was further exacerbated by the lack of clear and forthright communication from the emergency management authorities about the impossibility of precisely predicting earthquakes and about the risks posed by many of the city's old buildings.

scholarly journals Introducing the Rehabilitation Policy in Order to Safeguard the Built Heritage

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 124
Author(s):  
Mona M. Abdelhamid ◽  
Mohamed M. Elfakharany
Keyword(s):  
Rehabilitation Process ◽  
Historical Structures ◽  
Built Heritage ◽  
The Social ◽  
Heritage Buildings ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Alexandria City ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The City

In order to maintain the old historical image of the city, it is necessary to look back into the past and identify the iconic buildings that have been existing during the last decades. By recognizing those valuable structures, architects together with the help of decision makers should take actions to revitalize the uses of those valuable buildings in order to prevent building’s decay or destruction. Old historical Arabic public bathhouses (Hammam) were chosen as distinctive buildings that have been used frequently during the 19th century in Alexandria city. The main objective of this paper is to highlight the importance of applying the rehabilitation policies for the revitalization of those heritage buildings that have shaped for a long time the character of the old town in Alexandria. This paper will first discuss the beneficial use of the rehabilitation scheme that helps in safeguarding the social, cultural and economical value of the built heritage. The concept of rehabilitation mainly focuses that no historic building should be pulled down until serious effort has been made. Then, El Masry Arabic public bathhouse (hammam) located at Minet El Basal district in Alexandria old town has been selected as a case study on which the rehabilitation process has been applied through field surveying study and a literature background as well. Finally the study has proved that the rehabilitation process for the historical structures can lead to a great social contribution that help in preserving the original identity of the historical town.

scholarly journals Reconciling Energy and Heritage: Retrofit of Heritage Buildings in Contexts of Energy Vulnerability

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 823 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Piderit ◽  
Susan Agurto ◽  
Laura Marín-Restrepo
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Residential Building ◽  
Energy Performance ◽  
Intervention Plan ◽  
Heritage Buildings ◽  
Systematic Identification ◽  
The City ◽  
Energy Aspects ◽  
Made In

Chile is a resilient country which has been struck by a series of natural disasters, affecting heritage areas whose inhabitants live under a great economic and energy vulnerability. Although there are some advances that have been made in the country to recover its heritage, these do not include energy efficiency parameters. In this context, intervention in heritage properties requires a specific, complementary treatment above and beyond what is currently applied. Consequently, this research aims to develop a methodology that balances heritage and energy in energy vulnerability contexts. The proposed methodology analyzes heritage and energy aspects separately through attribute matrices, as well as the building pathologies, to later integrate the results in a final matrix which allows defining an energy-heritage intervention plan. In this way, it includes the systematic identification of elements that require intervention because of pathological issues, as well as the type of intervention that would be acceptable given its heritage significance and whether they mean a possibility to optimize the energy performance. The methodology, for its validation, was applied in a heritage residential building inhabited by low-income occupants. The case study presents physical damages and is located in the city of Lota, an area with an outstanding cultural heritage from the mining era.

scholarly journals Facility Energy Management Application of HBIM for Historical Low-Carbon Communities: Design, Modelling and Operation Control of Geothermal Energy Retrofit in a Real Italian Case Study

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (23) ◽  
pp. 6338
Author(s):  
Cristina Piselli ◽  
Alessio Guastaveglia ◽  
Jessica Romanelli ◽  
Franco Cotana ◽  
Anna Laura Pisello
Keyword(s):  
Central Italy ◽  
Energy Performance ◽  
Information Modeling ◽  
Geothermal System ◽  
Historical Buildings ◽  
Building Stock ◽  
Energy Retrofit ◽  
Adsorption Heat Pump ◽  
Heritage Buildings

The highest challenge of energy efficiency of building stock is achieving improved performance in existing buildings and, especially, in heritage buildings which per se are characterized by massive limitations against the implementation of the most sophisticated solutions for energy saving. In Italy, historical buildings represent more than 30% of the building stock and the vast majority require energy retrofit, while ensuring the preservation of the heritage value and acceptable comfort conditions. In this context, historical buildings must be retrofitted and re-functioned by introducing innovative technologies aimed at reducing energy consumption and improving human comfort, health, and safety. To this aim, this study implements the Historic Building Information Modeling (HBIM) approach for the integrated modeling, monitoring, management, and maintenance of a novel geothermal system involving horizontal ground source heat exchangers (GHEXs) coupled to an adsorption heat pump for the energy refurbishment of historical buildings. In detail, a rural building part of a medieval complex in Perugia, Central Italy, is considered as a pilot case study. The analysis stresses the potential of the Facility Management (FM) applications of HBIM to provide a tool for the human-centric operational management control of the building energy performance and indoor comfort when combined with the building monitoring and supervision system. Therefore, this integrated HBIM approach may drive the path towards the user-centric re-functioning of heritage buildings.

scholarly journals Deterioration in brick buildings: hygrothermal performance and measures to save them

2020 ◽  
Vol 172 ◽  
pp. 23005
Author(s):  
Pär Johansson ◽  
Paula Wahlgren
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Industrial Building ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Swedish West Coast ◽  
Hygrothermal Performance ◽  
Heritage Buildings ◽  
High Degree ◽  
The City

Many former industrial building sites in Sweden have been abandoned and left to deteriorate. Nowadays, there is a large interest to refurbish and retrofit these buildings for other purposes. Commercial and housing developers are attracted to these areas which are often in the outskirts of the city centers. There are several challenges facing architects and engineers to preserve these buildings, also connected to cultural heritage demands. The aim of this study is to propose measures to preserve cultural heritage buildings. A brick building in Gothenburg, on the Swedish west coast, is used as a case study. The building was used for paper production until 2005. After that, it deteriorated quickly after the heating was turned off. The rapid decay affected the hygrothermal performance as well as the load-bearing capacity of the structure. Small scale laboratory investigations of the building materials show a high degree of decay. Measurements of temperature and relative humidity is used to monitor the hygrothermal performance. Observations show that the brick masonry has heavy salt efflorescence and is in need of further protective measures.

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