Analysis and Technology Rating of the Rural Architecture

Abstract: The architectural heritage belonging to "rural culture" constitutes a resource of extraordinary importance, therefore it must be preserved, protected and enhanced not only for its intrinsic value, but above all, as a witness of an almost completely disappeared reality. For its proper recovery a careful analysis is required for locating its physical and morphological consistency. In the critical reading of an architectural work it becomes essential to adopt a tool of classification and analysis to highlight the aggregation structure of the technical elements and their state of preservation. The aim of this paper is to provide a new systematization for the knowledge of architectural objects characterized by a significant and complex number of parts. The analysis and the technological classification is developed by reference to the classification systems of the technical elements (ex. UNI, NORMAL,) adopted with amendments and additions. The classification, in addition to morphological data, will include those constructive and material, functional joints related to different uses, conditions and causes of deterioration. By overlapping and comparing all the information, divided into more specific and restricted parts, you can make a filing able to support choices between different technical solutions in order to provide the greatest adequacy to analyzed building system in the restoration project.