Preventive Conservation of concrete university buildings: a comparative study between FAU USP and the University of Urbino

• Grant number: 24/00103-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: December 01, 2024
• End date: May 31, 2028
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Architecture and Town Planning - Architecture and Urbanism Project
• Principal Investigator: Beatriz Mugayar Kühl
• Grantee: Fabiane Regina Savino
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo (FAU). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The topic of maintaining historic buildings as one of the best ways to ensure their survival over time has been present in the debate on the preservation of built assets for millennia. The subject gained important contributions in the 19th and 20th centuries and reaches today with new contours, resulting from a new historical context, characterized as preventive conservation. This study seeks to collaborate with the voices that reinforce the importance of research on maintenance and planning to safeguard modern heritage, especially its materiality and authenticity, based on the detailed analysis of the preventive management plans for the concrete buildings of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of São Paulo and the Collegi (student residence buildings) at the University of Urbino, in Italy.