PALAZZO CITTADINI STAMPA: ROLE OF STRATIGRAPHY AND CINEMATIC ANALYSYS IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF A MANSONRY BUILDING

The Cittadini-Stampa building is a 18th Century cultural heritage, whose abandon has caused its extreme decay. To approach correctly the building's heritage and material, the present work underlines the role of stratigraphy and cinematic analysis as pre1iminary knowledge phases. The survey of the superimpositions due to historic developments ofthis masonry building, and ofthe crack pattern which has developed, lead to evaluate the static equilibrium and to give indications for the strengthening intervention. A multidisciplinary analysis has defined the structural characteristics and precarious points of the construction. Careful inspections, survey and diagnostic investigations have served as essential tool to highlight the crack pattern, active and possible cinematic mechanisms and other specific vulnerability of this building, an aggregate of not-coeval structures. The know1edge gathered has supplied indications to formulate a targeted project of structural improvement.