Abstract
Abstract. The beauty of cultural heritage and monumental architecture, is often linked to their non-structural elements and decorative stones façades cladding. The collapse of these elements causes significant consequences that interest the social, the economic, the historical and the technical fields. Several regulatory documents and literature studies contain methods to address the question of relief and of the risk analysis and due to the non – structural stones security. Among the references are widespread international regulatory documents prepared by the Federal Emergency Management Agency of the United States by Applied Technology Council and California. In Italy there are some indications contained in the Norme Tecniche per le Costruzioni and the Direttiva del Presidente del Consiglio dei Ministri in 2007, finalize to the reduction of seismic risk assessment of cultural heritage. The paper, using normative references and scientific researches, allows to analyze on Royal Palace of Caserta the safety and the preservation of cultural heritage and the vulnerability of non-structural stones façade cladding. Using sophisticated equipments of Laboratory ARS of the Second University of Naples, it was possible to analyze the collapse of stone elements due to degradation caused by natural phenomena of deterioration (age of the building, type of materials, geometries , mode of fixing of the elements themselves). The paper explains the collapse mechanisms of stones façade cladding of Luigi Vanvitelli Palace.
Highlights
1.1 History of the Royal Palace in Caserta "One of the planimetric creations more harmonics, more logical, more perfect architecture of all times", so it was called the Royal Palace of Caserta by Gino Clerici in 1930 (Figure 1)
The Royal Palace of Caserta, declared World Heritage by UNESCO, was wanted by the Bourbon kings of Naples as the seat of the representative government that had as capital
Charles III of Bourbon wanted to connect with a wide avenue the capital of the kingdom, precisely Naples, Caserta and the new structure, which was not completed, compared to what was expected
Summary
1.1 History of the Royal Palace in Caserta "One of the planimetric creations more harmonics, more logical, more perfect architecture of all times", so it was called the Royal Palace of Caserta by Gino Clerici in 1930 (Figure 1). Vanvitelli in Caserta came in 1751 and the following year, with a big ceremony, the final design was approved by the affixing of the first stone. When in 1773, Vanvitelli died, his son Carlo had to continue the completion of the work, but the genius of the father was difficult to interpret, so that it was difficult to do the work according to the original project (Figures 3 and 4). The peer-review was conducted on the basis of the abstract
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