THERMOGRAFICA ANALYSIS IN DIAGNOSTICS FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE

The preparation of architectural restoration requires, as a fundamental tool, a thorough diagnostic phase so that a detailed knowledge on the structure under examination can be reached. Such knowledge leads the designer in defining possible interventions which are such as to overcome the difficulties highlighted during the diagnosis phase in the respect of historical with which will interact. These objective will be possible if the diagnostic cognitive phase, made on the cultural heritage in question, will be detailed and careful. In this paper some analysis specified in the diagnostic work on the monumental complex of San Bernardino of Amantea (CS) are reported, such as the study of the relationship between the architectural emergency and its urban surroundings, architectural and typological analysis, the reconstruction of architectural evolution performed based archival and thermographic survey that has involved the entire complex.