The traditional sacral wooden construction in Lithuania between XVIII and XIX century

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ENLithuania is situated in a highly forested Northeastern Europe area and has a great variety of wooden buildings. Among the wooden structures we can enumerate the religious buildings, rich of historic values, presenting different shapes and sizes and also a complex design and stratified construction phases. The oldest wooden churches began to built in Lithuania in the 13th century. Currently, there are more than 600 existing wooden sacral buildings, which not yet have detailed studies about their constructive and structural aspects. The main objectives of the research are: – knowledge of the rituals, related to the building types and stylistics and architectural solutions which were adapted to the Lithuanian sacred architecture; – systematization of the all sacred Lithuanian wooden buildings, with a particular attention to a detailed study of the more significant examples; – systematization of the building types and design of a constructive techniques catalogue, useful to the future recovery and preservation of timber structures; – schedules of the technological solutions, implementation of analyzed wooden buildings, related to the damage mechanisms and detected failures; – architectural and constructive terms glossary (Italian-Lithuanian-English languages). The research project proceeds – according to the direct knowledge of the building and through the analysis of the actual conditions – to define a geometric – dimensional and constructive survey, the analysis of the constitutive geometries, the history of construction techniques, the analysis of the main failures and degradations, the retrieval of the literature of the churches and their construction techniques. Key words: Lithuania, church, wood, construction, technics, heritage.

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