Textile shelters for archaeological areas: achange in the preservation of CulturalHeritage

To overcome the limitations of traditional covering system, a project for the creation of new shelters has to combine all current preservation requiremets, (specifically; the compatibility and reversibility of new materials and protection from environmental aggregation) along with new issues such as, flexibility, feasibility, low maintenance requirements, ease of disassembly and reusability. The topic of this paper is the protection of archeological sites, it will detail the authors research activity and a pilot project undertaken in Sardinia (Italy). Several technical aspects are analysed, highlighting solutions which could contribute to damage rathen than serve to protect. The experimental set up and results sections describe the creation of two prototypes, produced in order to evaluate the technical performance of an alternative solution to the provisional shelter and several sets of solar irradiation measures taken in order to evaluate the behaviour of some innovative textile materials in comparison with traditional ones.