ACTECH project

FIRST DAY 12.12.2018 Salle Doucet - 3, rue Michelet, Paris 15.30 François Villeneuve – Paris 1 / UMR 7041 _ France Welcome by the Director of ARSCAN and supervisor of the ACTECH project PART ONE The ACTECH Project Buildings Archaeology, Archives and IT applied to Cultural Heritage 15.50 Piero Gilent...

ستطبق منهجية البحث مقاربة متعددة التخصصات ومتعددة المقاييس، من خلال جمع اثنين من التخصصات الذين تم تطويرهما على نطاق واسع في إيطاليا وفرنسا على مدى أكثر من ثلاثين عاماً من النشاطات البحثية في هذا المجال: ما يسمى علم آثار المباني[1]. واحدة من نقاط القوة في الاقتراح البحثي هو على وجه التحديد الجمع بين...

October, 11th 2018 In the Framework of the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 and of the Heritage Days in Jordan, the Archaeological Mission in Umm as-Surab, with the support of EUNIC Jordan and with the collaboration of the IFPO Amman, the Department of Antiquities of Jordan and the Municipali...

إن الطبقات المعمارية هي المجموع الكلي لأعمال البناء، وإعادة نظر وتغييرات طرأت على المخطط الأولي للمبنى، فضلاً عن أي انهيارات وعمليات إعادة بناء بسبب عوامل بشرية (الهدم) أو طبيعية (مثل الزلازل). جميع هذه المعلومات مسجلة في هيكل المبنى نفسه، ويجب تحديد هويتها وفك شيفرتها بدقة. ويكشف فك شيفرة العلامات...

In the framework of the courses of History of Architecture I and II at the Department of Civil, Construction-Architectural and Environmental Engineering of the University of L’Aquila (Italy), Piero Gilento will present the results of the ACTECH Project during the seminars of the Doctoral Studies org...

بدأت المنهجية المعتمدة للعمل الميداني بتقسيم الموقع إلى وحدات طبوغرافية (TU)، والتي يمكن أن تتكون من مجمع معماري واحد أو أكثر (AC): وهذا نتيجة لمجموع عدة عناصر بناء (BE). عنصر البناء هو أصغر وحدة وظيفية يمكن التعرف عليها من خلال السمات الشكلية والبنيوية مثل، على سبيل المثال، برج، حنية، مئذنة، وما إل...

Piero Gilento, PI of the ACTECH project, will present the first results of his on-going research during the annual meeting of European Association of Archaeologists that this year will be held in Barcelona from the 5th to the 8th of September: https://www.e-a-a.org/eaa2018 Piero Gilento will partici...

The workshop Ancient and Early Medieval building techniques in the mediterranean area: from East to West has been held from the 12 to the 14 of december 2018 at University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne and at the Maison de l’Archéologie et Ethnologie René-Ginouvès à Nanterre. The workshop was possible t...

The southern Hawrān (part of Roman Provincia Arabia), currently divided between Southern Syria and Northern Jordan, is a highly homogeneous geographic region and, at the same time, a very culturally rich area, characterized in ancient times by numerous interactions between sedentary and nomadic popu...

The research methodology will implement a multidisciplinary and multi-scalar approach through the meeting of two disciplines which have been widely developed in Italy and in France over more than 30 years of research activities in the field: the so-called archeologia dell'architettura and the archéo...

Construction techniques are part of material (the buildings) and immaterial heritage (ideas and knowledge at the basis of their execution). A key role for the development of a building technique is the environment and its resources. The functions, durability and aesthetics of a structure are strictl...

The methodology adopted for the fieldwork started with the division of the site into topographic units (TU), which can be composed of one or more architectural complexes (AC): this is the result of the sum of several building elements (BE). A building element is the smallest functional unit that can...

Umm as-Surab is located 80 km north of Amman, in the Mafraq Governorate, and it lies 13 km from the city Mafraq and 12 km from Umm el Jimal, the most important archaeological site of the region. The village is situated in the so-called area of southern Hawrān; an homogeneous geologically zone charac...

Piero Gilento, PI of ACTECH Project, together with Pierre-Marie Blanc will present the 2017-2018 fieldwork results of the on-going project at Umm as-Surab at ICHAJ 2019 that will be held in Florence from Jantnuary 21st to 25th http://ichaj.org.10-0-0-4.mint.imagine.com.jo/ The title of the contribut...

The basic concept of chrono-typology is to identify particular constructive elements associating them with the period when they were used. For any single element, distinctive features may include materials, construction techniques, shapes or dimensions. It has to be noted that chrono-typology applie...