La chiesa dei Santi Filippo e Giacomo in Napoli: interventi di consolidamento nel XX secolo

The church, built in 1593 by the Art of Silk Guild, was completely renovated in 1759, under the direction of the architect Gennaro Papa, recovering surviving elements of the 16th-century structure. It has a single nave with four chapels on each side and a large apse. Damaged during the war and the 1980 earthquake, the monument has been object of restorations and consolidation in the 20th century. In particular, the instabilities on which they intervened were in the masonry of the last two chapels to the right of the nave and in the hypogeum: armed perforations, reinforced fixing of walls’ corners, injections of binding mixtures were carried out. These works make us think about the evolution of the approach in anti-seismic legislation and the disciplinary acquisitions on the restoration/consolidation relationship, particularly as regards to the concept of seismic "improvement".