RESEARCH ARTICLE

On conservation issues of contemporary architecture: The technical design development and the ageing process of the Jubilee Church in Rome by Richard Meier

  • Luciano Cardellicchio
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  • Kent School of Architecture, University of Kent, Marlowe Building, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NR, United Kingdom

Received date: 19 Aug 2017

Accepted date: 19 Mar 2018

Published date: 22 Jun 2018

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2018 2018 The Author. Higher Education Press Limited Company. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of KeAi. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)

Abstract

A vast amount of iconic buildings distinguished by complex geometries have been constructed in the last two decades in the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Portugal, France and Italy. Overall, the construction of these iconic buildings has led to technical innovations. As these buildings are often erected following customised construction details and bespoke technical solutions that are rarely tested in advance, measuring their ageing process has become crucial to understand if these geometries are sustainable in terms of the cost of their maintenance. This study aims to analyse the technical design development and the ageing process of the Jubilee Church in Rome by Richard Meier. Only fourteen years after the opening, this building is affected by extensive decay of construction materials due to both wrong technical design choices and lack of unaffordable maintenance work. This study aims to identify the causes of the premature decay of this building, recording retroactively its technical development and mapping the current state of damages.

Cite this article

Luciano Cardellicchio . On conservation issues of contemporary architecture: The technical design development and the ageing process of the Jubilee Church in Rome by Richard Meier[J]. Frontiers of Architectural Research, 2018 , 7(2) : 107 -121 . DOI: 10.1016/j.foar.2018.03.005

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