Abstract
Abstract. The church dedicated to Sant'Andrea (St. Andrew) in Porta Dipinta street in Bergamo city is a treasure that keep inside it a rich heritage of great historical and cultural value, both from the architectural and from the artistic point of view. Lacking of the façade (left unfinished), it is often neglected, despite being on the main road leading to the old town from Sant'Agostino Gate. The approach to an historical building like this requires a multi-disciplinary integration, in order to join the technical competence of engineering sciences to the sensitivity of human and fine arts sciences. For a better understanding of the structural performances of the building, historical research, measurement survey, material and decay condition study have to complement each other.
Highlights
1.1 The church of Sant’Andrea in BergamoThe research presented here belongs to a larger inter-disciplinary project aimed to support the knowledge and the valorisation of a monument quite often neglected by Bergamo citizens, maybe for the external appearance, with an unfinished façade and without any bell-tower
Despite its position along the way from the ‘Sant’Agostino’ Gate and the heart of the old town, the church is nearly invisible to the tourists that ignore the rich architecture and the important paintings hided into the interior
Recurring the 170th anniversary from the dedication of the church, the bishopric started a new phase for the valorisation and the conscious usage of the monument, with the active cooperation of the University of Bergamo
Summary
The research presented here belongs to a larger inter-disciplinary project aimed to support the knowledge and the valorisation of a monument quite often neglected by Bergamo citizens, maybe for the external appearance, with an unfinished façade and without any bell-tower. Recurring the 170th anniversary from the dedication of the church, the bishopric started a new phase for the valorisation and the conscious usage of the monument, with the active cooperation of the University of Bergamo. Historical and documental researches have been promoted, thanks to the recent reorganisation of the parish archives, together with a new metrical survey campaign, integrating indirect measurements by 3D laser–scanning systems and digital photogrammetry, for a better understanding of the building and its construction phases. The knowledge of an historical heritage is a vast process requiring different expertise, and the direct and analytical observation that a modern survey can efficiently support is an unavoidable step for the comprehension of design strategies initially adopted and the imperfections, anomalies and transformations occurred in practice
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