The Importance of an Integrated Historical Analysis for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage Monumental Buildings: The Case Study of Certosa Di Calci

In the current age of overwhelming globalisation, the preservation of cultural heritage has acquired a primary role as a landmark of culture and diversity between peoples. Among the main characters of this field there are monumental buildings, often appearing as large structures characterised by a sequence of poorly known construction phases determining high structural complexity. Their evolution throughout centuries, strongly influencing their structural behaviour, is frequently almost unknown and hard to comprehend only by reading historical sources. The present paper deals with the application of a methodology to reach a proper and in-depth knowledge of the state of the art of a monumental building, necessary for the possible structural disaggregation of the compound, simplifying the structural analysis and the following preservation. In particular, a focus was devoted to the integrated approach to be adopted to reconstruct the morphological evolution. The Certosa di Calci monumental building is introduced and described as a reference case study.