Proposal for the Roofing of the Ruins of the NKP Baroque Church in Sedliacka Dubová Using Methodical Design

Abstract

"In the intentions of the ""Project of the UNESCO Department for the Restoration of Architectural Heritage. Interdisciplinarity as the
Basis of Cultural Sustainability"", from 2020 at the Department of Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture of STU Bratislava, a
specific method of architectural design, which is professionally called ""methodical design"", is applied. It is based on the exact
knowledge of the original state of the monument, the execution of relevant monument research, the setting of the framework method of
monument restoration, and the subsequent design of possible variants of solutions, which in various combinations verify the optimality
of the design. The paper illustrates the application of the mentioned approach to the church restoration proposal on student works and
on the dissertation in progress. In the dissertation, the process of getting to know the monument is more thoroughly analysed from the
point of view of construction development, the static load-bearing capacity of the preserved masonry, as well as the verification of the
possibilities of using wood-based constructions in the design of new roofs. Student works represent a spectrum of other possible
solutions, using principles resulting from two different framework methods of restoration. The first synthetic-reconstructive framework
method of restoration indicates the original character of the roof, and the second analytical-modernist framework method of
restoration respects the new character of the roof and preserves the ruin in a preserved state."