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Learning from Case Studies: Timber Tower of Gospić Cathedral and traditional timber church

The conservation of historical timber structures requires both the knowledge of structural behavior of complete building and behavior of any single element in the structure. Due to poor communication between the institutions dealing with conservation and restoration of buildings and institutions that urgently require structure renovation, renovation of historic buildings is often performed inappropriately with respect to engineering and architectural approach. Buildings are frequently subjected to inappropriate interventions, replacements of structural elements, or even worse, they are demolished. First case study in this paper is Cathedral from Gospić, which was subjected to inappropriate reconstruction in the 1990s. The cathedral was demolished during the war and the tower and roof structure were subjected to reconstruction. The second case study is a small traditionally constructed timber chapel in the village Lijevi Štefanki, which represents a valuable monument of rural cultural heritage. Visual inspection of the chapel was done and recommendations for reconstruction were proposed.

timber church; timber tower; wood shrinkage; biological deterioration; in situ evaluation and repair; structural analysis; instability

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