The present work deals about a Romanesque church (San Francesco church) built in a city of north part of Italy (Alessandria) (Ficarra and Malfatto, 2003). The interest about this ancient building is due to the restoration project designed by the Public Administration that would convert the church to a city museum. From its construction (XII century) to the last century the San Francesco church underwent several functional and structural transformations that strongly changed its original configuration. This construction was built within a Franciscan convent, but in the next centuries it was partially changed for “practical” reasons and in the XVIII and XIX centuries it was used as depot and military hospital. During the last two centuries the church underwent the main changes, between which the addition of a new floor. Finally in the restoration project the demolition of the XIX century floor is proposed. In the present work the historical, technological and structural study and the successive sequential finite element analysis are presented. The numerical analysis is used to simulate the different structural configurations adopted by the church during its history. This study is useful to give the preliminary knowledge elements for the realization of the restoration project.
The San Francesco Ex-church in a North Italian Region: knowledge elements for a restoration project
DASSORI, ENRICO;MORBIDUCCI, RENATA
2004-01-01
Abstract
The present work deals about a Romanesque church (San Francesco church) built in a city of north part of Italy (Alessandria) (Ficarra and Malfatto, 2003). The interest about this ancient building is due to the restoration project designed by the Public Administration that would convert the church to a city museum. From its construction (XII century) to the last century the San Francesco church underwent several functional and structural transformations that strongly changed its original configuration. This construction was built within a Franciscan convent, but in the next centuries it was partially changed for “practical” reasons and in the XVIII and XIX centuries it was used as depot and military hospital. During the last two centuries the church underwent the main changes, between which the addition of a new floor. Finally in the restoration project the demolition of the XIX century floor is proposed. In the present work the historical, technological and structural study and the successive sequential finite element analysis are presented. The numerical analysis is used to simulate the different structural configurations adopted by the church during its history. This study is useful to give the preliminary knowledge elements for the realization of the restoration project.
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