INNOVATIVE RESTORATION. PROCESS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NAUTICAL HISTORY

Nautical Heritage, a new discipline dedicated to historic boats, has developed as a topic of study in the field of Nautical and Naval Design with research and didactic headquarters in the University of Genoa’s Architecture and Design Department (dAD). At present this includes two complementary fields of research: the cataloguing of Italy’s boats and the definition of methods for their preservation. The purpose of this paper is to present the studies conducted and results achieved in the latter field of research. Specifically, this article falls under the heading of Process Innovation and demonstrates a new design tool for the restoration of still-functioning historic boats: the ‘guidelines for the process of nautical restoration’.