task 1 - building stock characterisation, inspection and survey
In the scope of the renovation and rehabilitation process of many historical city centres, the building stock is not thoroughly appraised. To carry out this task, particularly for the three historical city centres, beyond the interest shown, logistic support is guaranteed to carry out a complete identification and inspection survey of the old masonry buildings on three different domains:
The experience in this field is common to the researchers involved specifically in this task, however the expertise of our consultant, Prof. J. A. Raimundo Mendes da Silva in very important in this task because of his leadership in the wide-span project developed from 2003-2006 for the old city centre of Coimbra and in Seixal from 2009-2010. Therefore the management of inspection teams, development of check-lists and appraisal procedures were already used to undertake this assessment of the large number of buildings concerned and the diverse building constructive features. The building inventory process is without doubt a key factor in assessing building stock at the urban scale. Additionally, it is stressed that the research team has a broad experience and previous on this field, therefore the need to carry out a state-of-the-art review is not assumed as a primary task.
Moreover this task may be considered as the "backbone" of the project due to its dependence to the following tasks, namely task 2, task 3 and task 6. During the eleven months of this task, divided for the three historical city centres, the two research fellows will be accompanied and supervised by Romeu Vicente (IR), Aníbal Costa, Carlos Sousa Oliveira, Tiago Ferreira and Humberto Varum.
Expected results:
This privileged fieldwork opportunity will allow the appraisal, diagnosis and inspection by gathering information on the buildings by using a detailed check-list, through an extensive survey of all building stock of the old city centres. Several midterm goals will be fulfilled:
In the scope of the renovation and rehabilitation process of many historical city centres, the building stock is not thoroughly appraised. To carry out this task, particularly for the three historical city centres, beyond the interest shown, logistic support is guaranteed to carry out a complete identification and inspection survey of the old masonry buildings on three different domains:
- architectural typologies;
- structural, constructive and pathological condition of buildings;
- socio-demographic characterisation of these parts of the cities.
The experience in this field is common to the researchers involved specifically in this task, however the expertise of our consultant, Prof. J. A. Raimundo Mendes da Silva in very important in this task because of his leadership in the wide-span project developed from 2003-2006 for the old city centre of Coimbra and in Seixal from 2009-2010. Therefore the management of inspection teams, development of check-lists and appraisal procedures were already used to undertake this assessment of the large number of buildings concerned and the diverse building constructive features. The building inventory process is without doubt a key factor in assessing building stock at the urban scale. Additionally, it is stressed that the research team has a broad experience and previous on this field, therefore the need to carry out a state-of-the-art review is not assumed as a primary task.
Moreover this task may be considered as the "backbone" of the project due to its dependence to the following tasks, namely task 2, task 3 and task 6. During the eleven months of this task, divided for the three historical city centres, the two research fellows will be accompanied and supervised by Romeu Vicente (IR), Aníbal Costa, Carlos Sousa Oliveira, Tiago Ferreira and Humberto Varum.
Expected results:
This privileged fieldwork opportunity will allow the appraisal, diagnosis and inspection by gathering information on the buildings by using a detailed check-list, through an extensive survey of all building stock of the old city centres. Several midterm goals will be fulfilled:
- Improvement of inspection procedures developed and knowledge on the old traditional masonry building stock built over the XVII to the XX century (three historical city centres), representative of Portugal and Mediterranean Europe;
- The extensive and interdisciplinary information gathered will support many other research interests, specifically for seismic vulnerability assessment and evaluation and for the creation of a database within task 2;
- Identify critical and most important cases of degraded masonry buildings; this is particularly interesting to the city council and civil protection bodies that can take pro-active measures to assure the safeguarding of building and people.