The current legislative framework and the recent energy crisis ask for massive applications of renewable sources (RES) in built environment to reduce demand, environmental emissions, costs. uncritical application these policies, especially on architectural heritage, could generate serious conservation issues, compromising their heritage values, biodiversity, traditional appearance, materiality....

This paper tells us a complex story on the historic evolution of preventive conservation architectural heritage in Italy. Firstly, it introduces Cesare Brandi's Theory Restoration, pointing out peculiar sense word Restoration system other than common international discourse, limits theory to and his prophecy restoration. Then talks about different framework practices field built compared museum...

Rehabilitation and management of pre-industrial architectural heritage over time has played a central role in the international scientific debate since 1970s. In light experience gained this field, challenge controlled consistent integration Renewable Energy Sources (RES) requires careful reflection on compatibility criteria between new technologies traditional building’s identity. Several thes...