Abstract

In recent decades, increasing attention is being paid to the multidisciplinary approach that allows the performance of both a preventive conservation and a more invasive restoration action. In this context, the present study aims to acquire information and data from field surveys undertaken in San Domenico Church, Southern Calabria, in order to provide a tool for the recording and the inventory of damage and decay phenomena, and assess their causes and scale. The subsequent calculation of damage indices also provided useful information in order to allow the prioritization of conservation and preservation responses.

Highlights

  • As part of the activities related to the diagnosis, restoration, management, and valorization of cultural heritage (CH), in the last decade, an increasing attention is being paid to the multidisciplinary approach that allows the performance of both a preventive conservation and more invasive restoration action, as well as a dissemination of cultural resources [1,2,3]

  • Two typologies of surveys were applied to the main entrance of the San Domenico Church (Figure 1), for an accurate damage diagnosis, following the procedure shown in Table 2 in order to obtain a lithological map and a weathering forms map according to the quantitative approach proposed by [12,34]

  • The analytical approach followed in this study for the assessment of susceptibility to deterioration phenomena of San Domenico Church proved effective

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Summary

Introduction

As part of the activities related to the diagnosis, restoration, management, and valorization of cultural heritage (CH), in the last decade, an increasing attention is being paid to the multidisciplinary approach that allows the performance of both a preventive conservation and more invasive restoration action, as well as a dissemination of cultural resources [1,2,3]. A proper preventive conservation goes through a planning process comprising diagnostics, restoration, and maintenance of cultural heritage [4] With this in mind, there is a growing need to optimize both the diagnostic processes and the products currently used in the restoration practice, in order to make them more suitable for application in different environmental conditions. The whole process of risk assessment should combine detecting the specific active decay mechanism with an integrated study that should consider the type of decay and damage and the decay phenomenon mechanisms (kinetics, thermodynamics, structural) [8,9,10] In this context, the present study was developed as a part of a wider research in the framework of the CRATI project—Conoscenza e Restauro Attraverso Tecnologie Avanzate Integrate (Knowledge and Restoration through Advanced Integrated Technologies). The application of the photogrammetric survey and the analysis of degradation with the subsequent calculation of the damage indices (i.e., quantitative rating of damages according to [12]) was used in order to provide a reliable support for future monitoring and maintenance of the cultural heritage in line with United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 11—“Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable,” and the 11.4 goal—“Strengthen efforts to protect and safeguard the world’s cultural and natural heritage” [13]

Description of the Pilot Site
Evaluation and Data Processing
Results and Discussion
Photogrammetric Survey and 3D Reconstruction
Conclusions

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