CALL FOR PAPERS
BUILDING SERVICES AND LIVING COMFORT IN MEDIEVAL RESIDENCES AND PLACES OF LEISURE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION
THEMATIC SESSION TS1 AT THE 8TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON CONSTRUCTION HISTORY ZURICH 2024.
ZURICH, 24-28 JUN 2024
ABSTRACTS DUE BY 30 APRIL 2023
Questions of residential culture, the use of representative and private rooms and their furnishings have traditionally played a central role in research on residences. Until now, however, the focus has tended to be on the floor plan and the artistic furnishings; technical building installations such as baths, sinks for manual cleaning and toilets, as well as the water pipes and ventilation shafts required for them, which were often integrated into the masonry, have long been ignored, as have questions about their origins, origins and development. The related questions of the relationship between residence and garden as well as the intended relationship of the buildings to the landscape can only be mentioned here.
Particularly in southern Italy and Sicily, there are numerous medieval buildings that exhibit an extraordinarily high degree of living comfort. The Norman palaces in Palermo, the Hohenstaufen Castel del Monte or the Domus in Lagopesole are representative examples. All these buildings are an expression of processes of hybridisation or amalgmation that already characterised the Norman kingdom of Sicily in the 12th century and can be traced back in architectural history both to Roman antiquity or to Byzantium as the preserver of Roman culture and to Islamic architecture such as the Umayyad so-called desert castles.
The section will discuss the building services relevant to the living comfort of medieval residences in the Mediterranean region and pursue the question of their origin against the background of transcultural processes of exchange and interconnectedness in the Mediterranean region.
Session Chairs: Kai Kappel, Klaus Tragbar
Abstracts must be submitted in English and must not exceed 400 words. All abstracts will be reviewed and selected for presentation by at least two members of the 8ICCH Scientific Committee. All papers will be published in an edited open access proceedings volume and will be available at the congress and as print-on-demand hardcopies.
Abstracts must be submitted exclusively via the website www.8icch.ethz.ch. Abstract submission will open on March 15, 2023. Abstracts submitted by other ways of communication (paper, e-mail, etc.) cannot be considered. When submitting your abstract, please indicate the relevant thematic sessions, here: Thematic Session TS 1.
Abstracts have to be submitted until April 30, 2023 (midnight CET). Delayed submissions cannot be considered. The decision of the scientific committee will be announced by August 1, 2023. Full papers are expected to be submitted by November 2023. Full papers will again be reviewed by members of the scientific committee. Only papers fully meeting the scientific and language quality criteria will be accepted. Please note that only papers presented in person at the conference will be included in the proceedings.