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ARCH9082: Conservation of Traditional Buildings
2025 unit information
Conservation of Traditional Buildings is a practically focused introduction to the techniques and bodies of knowledge essential to conserving traditional buildings and their materials. Expert conservation architects and tradespeople will describe techniques in conservation and lead practical demonstrations of building and conservation techniques. Students will document and investigate a traditional building by undertaking a recording and condition assessment. In the unit we will consider the causes and forms of decay that compromise buildings and their materials and discuss appropriate modes of intervention. By the end of the unit you will be familiar with: the composition of mortars and renders; the sources and qualities of common building stone; basic characteristics of traditional carpentry among other key techniques and materials.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Urban and Regional Planning and Policy |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. understand the behaviour of a range of traditional building materials
- LO2. recognise threats to building materials from moisture, wind, biological and chemical attack and other forces that lead to deterioration;
- LO3. record a simple building in drawings and photographs
- LO4. document and assess the condition of the fabric of a building
- LO5. develop an approach to conserving the fabric of a building.
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| Session | MoA ? | Location | Outline ? |
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Intensive November 2025
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Block mode | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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Additional advice
Students only need to complete either ARCH9082 or ARCH9083 to complete the core of the Master of Heritage Conservation degree. If students choose to attempt both units the second unit will be treated as an elective for the purpose of meeting the requirements of the degree.
