Objectives of Programme's Learning Outcomes

• Imagine, design, optimise, carry out and implement projects and solutions to address a complex problem by integrating needs, contexts and issues (technical, economic, societal, ethical and environmental).
• Identify complex problems to be solved and formulate the specifications by integrating client needs, contexts and issues (technical, economic, societal, ethical and environmental).
• Implement a chosen solution in the form of a drawing, a schema, a plan, a model, a prototype, software and/or digital model
• Evaluate the approach and results for their adaptation (optimisation, quality, sustainability, responsibility, etc.).
• Mobilise a structured set of artistic and scientific knowledge and skills and specialised techniques in order to carry out architectural missions using their expertise and adaptability.
• Master and appropriately mobilise knowledge, models, methods and techniques specific to the architectural engineering.
• Conduct a critical and contextualised analysis of requests to establish the choice of a guiding concept (artistic, technical, societal, etc.).
• Model a project or solutions by selecting theories and methodological approaches (modelling, calculations) and relevant techniques while taking into account multidisciplinary aspects.
• Identify and discuss possible applications of new and emerging technologies in the field of built environment for the benefit of humans.
• Plan, manage and lead projects in view of their objectives, resources and constraints, ensuring the quality of activities and deliverables.
• Respect deadlines and timescales
• Work effectively in teams, develop leadership, make decisions in multidisciplinary, multicultural, and international contexts.
• Identify skills and resources, and research external expertise if necessary.
• Make decisions, individually or collectively, taking into account the parameters involved (human, technical, economic, societal, ethical and environmental).
• Communicate and exchange information in a structured way - orally, graphically and in writing, in French and in one or more other languages - artistically, scientifically, culturally, technically and interpersonally by adapting to the intended purpose and the relevant public.
• Use and produce scientific and technical documents (reports, plans, specifications, etc.) adapted to the intended purpose and the relevant public.
• Adopt a professional and responsible approach, showing an open and critical mind in an independent professional development process.
• Exploit the different means available in order to inform and train independently.
• Contribute by researching the innovative solution of a problem in engineering sciences.
• Collect and analyse data rigorously.
• Communicate, in writing and orally, on the approach and its results in highlighting both the scientific criteria of the research conducted and the theoretical and technical innovation potential, as well as possible non-technical issues.

Learning Outcomes of UE

At the end of this course, the student will have acquired notions enabling him/her to :

- Insert his/her intervention in an interdisciplinary approach of heritage conservation.
- Know the main tools and methods used for the characterization of heritage materials.
- Know the main methods used for the diagnosis of old buildings. 
- Understand and interpret the results of scientific analyses specific to heritage conservation in order to be able to make an interdisciplinary scientific diagnosis necessary for the development of a project.
- Demonstrate expertise by adopting a critical analytical approach. 
- Analyse the state of conservation of a building.

 

UE Content: description and pedagogical relevance

The course is structured around theoretical teaching and group work. The latter allows students to practice the process of symptomatology and anamnesis through the analysis of a case study. 
 
Theoretical course chapters:

- Survey and representation techniques applied to heritage (from manual stone to stone survey to scanner survey, including photogrammetry and 3D modelling tools).  - Study and critical interpretation of documentary sources (paper archives and digital databases). - Analysis of the built environment via archaeological studies of the subsoil and archaeology of the building. Reading and assimilation of results from related scientific approaches (stratigraphic studies, bauforschung). Methods and techniques used for the characterisation of heritage materials and their alterations. - Structural analysis (methodology, investigations, crack formation, monitoring, intervention vs. conservation principles) - Emergency protection measures (shoring and consolidation, protection of archaeological remains). - Descriptions of preliminary tests. In situ and laboratory analyses (absorption, DRMS,...). - Case studies.

Content of the group work:
I. Anamnesis. 
1) Location and presentation of the subject of the study. 2) Historical analysis of the site and the building. Genesis and evolution in time and space. 3) Architectural analysis. - Exterior and interior surveys. - Constructional principle. - Typological and stylistic analysis. - Architectural vocabulary. 4) Inventory of previous works and interventions (documentary sources and on-site observation).

II. Symptomathology
5) Mapping: - Materials. - Successive construction phases and transformations. - Alterations of the facades and interiors (if accessible), including cracking of the structures. For this part, the student should use the MDCS (Monument Diagnosis and Conservation System). 6) Hypotheses on the cause of the damage.

III. Master plan
IV. Conservation actions

Prior Experience

Not applicable