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A quattro anni dal sisma del 2012 l’Amministrazione Pubblica di Ferrara si confronta con quanto fatto, in emergenza, e quanto ancora da fare, in termini di investimento nel miglioramento dei propri beni monumentali.
Partono così importanti programmi di riqualificazione e restauro di molti “contenitori” museali ferraresi, fra cui l’importante complesso di Palazzo Bevilacqua-Massari e dell’adiacente Palazzina Cavalieri di Malta, che fanno parte del Polo Museale di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, oggetto infatti di studio ed ampliamento di nuove funzioni espositive.
L’intervento di recupero quindi viene pianificato, in base all’erogazione dei fondi disponibili, in un 1° Lotto, attualmente in fase di gara di appalto per l’assegnazione dei lavori, ed un 2° Lotto, per il quale gli uffici dell’Amministrazione Pubblica si accingono all’elaborazione di quello esecutivo.

Four years after the 2012 earthquake, the PA in Ferrara is analysing the targets achieved during the emergency stage, and what has still to be done. Specifically, future plans concern investments in the improvement of monumental assets, through the use of funds for post-earthquake reconstruction already allocated by Region Emilia Romagna.
In recent years the critical phase of an instant design has been determined by emergency criteria, but at the same time with a forward-looking perspective. Such interventions would have spaced in time and formed a huge potential for the valorisation and the recovery of building heritage, characterised by outstanding historical and cultural value, heterogeneous and marked by time. With this in mind, the city now moves towards the operational side of these construction sites, and on the other hand the scheduling of successive phases aimed to improve exhibiting capacity and attractiveness of museums, which shall be connected programmes of high interest.
Hence, a number of development and restoration strategies of many museums in Ferrara have started. Among these, the Palazzo Bevilacqua-Massari and Palazzina Cavalieri di Malta complex, which is part of the new ‘Polo Museale di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea,’ has been undergoing proposals for extension that involve the nearby Palazzo dei Diamanti, Palazzo Prosperi Sacrati, and Palazzo Bevilacqua.
The restoration intervention then is planned according to the provision of funds. That is, the 1st area, currently under tender for the allocation of work—therefore to start immediately—aimed at repairing and improving structural post quake along with the restoration of the exterior facades; the 2nd area, consisting of five excerpts, intended gradually to the realization of the project of restoration and functional adaptation of the museum complex, for which the preliminary design has already completed, and for which the PA offices are preparing to processing of the executive one.
The preliminary project has concerned the entire development and involved a number of issues, and many stakeholders on multiple fields. Structural studies, detailed analysis of decorated rooms for the characterisation of materials and detection of installations problems, stratigraphic and historical researches, geological surveys and archaeological research, were aimed at understanding the complex evolution of the building, and to tackle with awareness and specific scope the project of redevelopment and restoration.

L’importante complesso architettonico ferrarese, formato da Palazzo Bevilacqua-Massari e dall’adiacente palazzina Cavalieri di Malta, detta la “palazzina Bianca”, ospita alcuni fra i principali musei cittadini di Ferrara. Esso sorge all’interno dell’Addizione Erculea, il grande progetto urbanistico tardo-quattrocentesco operato, ingegnosamente, dall’architetto Biagio Rossetti. Data l’importanza culturale del complesso, è stato oggetto di studi e ricerche, anche precedentemente alle necessità impellenti dettate dal sisma del 2012, per comprenderne da un lato gli accadimenti storico-architettonici che hanno generato l’oggetto che si presenta a noi oggi, dall’altro per promuoverne azioni di recupero e rifunzionalizzazione, al fine di migliorare lo stato conservativo e gestionale del polo museale e valorizzarne gli aspetti compositivo-decorativi di uno dei più alti esempi di architettura tardo-quattrocentesca ferrarese. A seguito degli eventi sismici del maggio 2012, il complesso è stato dichiarato inagibile e svuotato di tutte le sue opere artistiche.

The important architectural Ferrara complex composed by Palazzo Bevilacqua - Massari and the adjacent palazzina Cavalieri di Malta, named “palazzina Bianca”, has hosted the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art “Filippo de Pisis”, the Museum “Giovanni Boldini” and the Museum of nineteenth Century since 1975. The complex is part of the Biagio Rossetti urban plan known as Addizione Erculea, smart plan realized at the end of fourteenth.
After the seismic events of 2012, the whole complex has been declared unfit for use and its exhibitions have been moved away until the realization of the structure static consolidation work.
In the past decades earlier the last seismic events, the complex has been deeply studied and researched taking into account its cultural and architectural importance with the aim to discover its architectural history until today and to support actions of restoration and reuse to improve its preservation and museum management in order to promote its artistic and spatial solutions, examples of Ferrara late 14th Century Architecture.
The restoration design project studied in the Laboratory of Monument Restoration in 2003 at Department of Architecture, represented a preview of the possible restoration actions which now are essential because of damages provoked by seismic event in 2012. Until now the Servizio Beni Monumentali of Ferrara municipality has designed a large project which foresees the whole restoration of the architectural, plant, functional and museum aspects for both buildings so to optimize the exhibition itineraries to improve the spatial utilization by visitors.

L'umidità di risalita è un fenomeno molto diffuso, soprattutto nelle murature storiche esistenti, attraverso il quale l'umidità penetra nei manufatti e costituisce una delle cause più frequenti del degrado degli edifici. Molti sono stati gli studi circa la risoluzione di tale problematica, poi ci si è approcciati alla tecnica della cosiddetta “barriera chimica”, un trattamento che mira a impedire la risalita dell’umidità creando una barriera di resine impermeabilizzanti.

Rising damp is a widespread phenomenon, especially in the existing historic masonry, through which moisture penetrates the artifacts and is one of the most frequent causes of the deterioration of the buildings. There have been many studies about the resolution of this problem, then there is approached to the technique of so-called "chemical barrier", a treatment that aims to prevent rising damp creating a barrier of waterproofing resins.