Palazzo Cittadini-Stampa: role of stratigraphy and cinematic analysis in the knowledge of a masonry building

The Cittadini-Stampa building is an 18th Century cultural heritage, whose abandon has caused its extreme decay. To approach correctly the building’s heritage and material, the present work underlines the role of stratigraphy and cinematic analysis as preliminary knowledge phases. The survey of the superimpositions due to historic developments of this masonry building, and of the crack pattern which has developed, lead to evaluate the static equilibrium and to give indications for the strengthening intervention. A multidisciplinary analysis has defined the structural characteristics and precarious points of the construction. Careful inspections, survey and diagnostic investigations have served as essential tool to highlight the crack pattern, active and possible cinematic mechanisms and other specific vulnerability of this building, an aggregate of not-coeval structures. The knowledge gathered has supplied indications to formulate a targeted project of structural improvement.