Restoration of modern buildings

The present paper is part of a research that is developed within the sustainable building designthrough the revisiting of the traditional construction materials. The results obtained show thatthe natural stone, enhanced by technological innovations, are often capable of providingexcellent performance.Based on the tests, it was possible to verify and validate the hypothesis that the proposed newsystem of external vertical opaque enclosure consisting in a panel in dry-assembled and precompressedblocks of natural stone through reinforcing steel has good performances when usedboth in the case of new design and in the case of recovery of modern buildings, when theintervention is being addressed within of an overall building improvement regarding thesecurity, sustainability, functionality and image.This paper reports the first results obtained by the study of the feasibility of the envelope beingtested, through the definition of all the details of links with the existing building structure.