scholarly journals Preventive Conservation as A Procedure for Safeguarding Mosul Built Heritage

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 98-129
Author(s):  
Emad Hani Al-Allaf

After the success of various international experiments of adopting preventive conservation approaches for safeguarding the cultural heritage such as Monumentenwacht Vlaanderen in Belgium, and Netherlands, and La consrvazione programmata in Italy, many countries attempt to put such strategies for protecting their heritage. During the last three decades or less, many monuments and heritage buildings in Mosul old city have been deteriorated progressively due to many factors the most important of which is the lack of monitoring and controlling procedures for preserving these irreplaceable outstanding constructions. Preventive conservation describes research and interventions aiming at reducing deterioration rates and minimizing risks to the constructions. It aims to identify and reduce potential hazards to cultural artifacts with thoughtful control of their surroundings, and it attempts to mitigate the occurrence of damage and deterioration through research and the implementation of procedures which enhance the safety of cultural objects and buildings. The absence of a comprehensible and efficient preservation protective policy for the responsible institutions of conservation of Mosul built heritage is a critical issue. The research aims to compare the current conservation policy of these institutions with international counterparts, and to put guidelines and recommendations for preparing a preventive conservation plan for the cultural heritage of Mosul Old City, which are represented by controlling its vital aspects such as managing of environment, risk, documentation, schedule investigation, information, regulation, human resources, and communication. The paper methodology adopts a comparative analytical study between several successful international experiments in preventive conservation field and the current existing procedures of the conservation of the Mosul built heritage

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Masciotta ◽  
L. Sánchez-Aparicio ◽  
S. Bishara ◽  
D. Oliveira ◽  
D. González-Aguilera ◽  
...  

Climate ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
pp. 90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Sesana ◽  
Chiara Bertolin ◽  
Alexandre Gagnon ◽  
John Hughes

Climate change mitigation targets have put pressure to reduce the carbon footprint of cultural heritage buildings. Commonly adopted measures to decrease the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of historical buildings are targeted at improving their energy efficiency through insulating the building envelope, and upgrading their heating, cooling and lighting systems. However, there are complex issues that arise when mitigating climate change in the cultural built heritage sector. For instance, preserving the authenticity of heritage buildings, maintaining their traditional passive behaviours, and choosing adaptive solutions compatible with the characteristics of heritage materials to avoid an acceleration of decay processes. It is thus important to understand what the enablers, or the barriers, are to reduce the carbon footprint of cultural heritage buildings to meet climate change mitigation targets. This paper investigates how climate change mitigation is considered in the management and preservation of the built heritage through semi-structured interviews with cultural heritage experts from the UK, Italy and Norway. Best-practice approaches for the refurbishment of historical buildings with the aim of decreasing their energy consumption are presented, as perceived by the interviewees, as well as the identification of the enablers and barriers in mitigating climate change in the cultural built heritage sector. The findings emphasise that adapting the cultural built heritage to reduce GHG emissions is challenging, but possible if strong and concerted action involving research and government can be undertaken to overcome the barriers identified in this paper.


Author(s):  
Rocío Ortiz ◽  
Juan Manuel Macias-Bernal ◽  
Pilar Ortiz

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present research on vulnerability and service life indexes applied to cultural heritage buildings. The construction and rehabilitation industry is concerned with the maintenance of monuments and reducing the economic costs of urgent interventions by taking preventive conservation action in historic cities. By applying a vulnerability index or analyzing the service life of buildings, it is possible to reduce risk and optimize the identification, evaluation and prioritization of urgent monument restoration tasks in a city or a region to establish preventive conservation policies. Design/methodology/approach This research sets out the concepts of vulnerability and service life, focusing on their methodologies in comparison with other techniques for building diagnosis, discussing the differences between indexes that measure the vulnerability and service life of buildings. Findings The vulnerability of three churches in Seville (Spain) was studied by means of their vulnerability index, based on Delphi analysis, and the service life of these buildings was also assessed, based on artificial intelligence tools. Delphi and artificial intelligence tools allow us to compare and dovetail different scenarios and expert opinions. The degree of each monument’s conservation is defined as its vulnerability index, which is an indirect function of deterioration levels. The service life of buildings, on the other hand, includes the assessment of vulnerability and hazards. Practical implications This study is useful for stakeholders, including small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and policymakers, as an important reference on diagnosis, including updated, inexpensive and sustainable methodologies to manage the conservation of monuments, which are easy to implement in developed and developing countries. The application of vulnerability and/or service life indicators is crucial to ensuring the sustainability and improvement of maintenance carried out on cultural heritage buildings. Originality/value This study details new approaches based on artificial intelligence and Delphi analysis to prioritize preventive conservation actions in a city or region.


Author(s):  
Y. C. Lu ◽  
T. Y. Shih ◽  
Y. N. Yen

Digital archiving technology for conserving cultural heritage is an important subject nowadays. The Taiwanese Ministry of Culture continues to try to converge the concept and technology of conservation towards international conventions. However, the products from these different technologies are not yet integrated due to the lack of research and development in this field. There is currently no effective schema in HBIM for Taiwanese cultural heritage. The aim of this research is to establish an HBIM schema for Chinese built heritage in Taiwan. The proposed method starts from the perspective of the components of built heritage buildings, up to the investigation of the important properties of the components through important international charters and Taiwanese laws of cultural heritage conservation. Afterwards, object-oriented class diagram and ontology from the scale of components were defined to clarify the concept and increase the interoperability. A historical database was then established for the historical information of components and to bring it into the concept of BIM in order to build a 3D model of heritage objects which can be used for visualization. An integration platform was developed for the users to browse and manipulate the database and 3D model simultaneously. In addition, this research also evaluated the feasibility of this method using the study case at the Huangxi academy located in Taiwan. The conclusion showed that class diagram could help the establishment of database and even its application for different Chinese built heritage objects. The establishment of ontology helped to convey knowledge and increase interoperability. In comparison to traditional documentation methods, the querying result of the platform was more accurate and less prone to human error.


Author(s):  
A. Collado ◽  
V. Heras ◽  
P. Rodas ◽  
A. Delgado ◽  
C. Carrión ◽  
...  

Abstract. Since 2008, the Ecuadorian Constitution gave all the rights and responsibilities to the municipalities to preserve and enhance their cultural and natural heritage. Despite the heritage richness of Nabón, historically has been considered as a poor and under development territory of the province and the country. Nevertheless, for small and rural territories like Nabón in Azuay's Province (Ecuador), the resources intended for cultural conservation are usually scarce and/or limited, and consequently it reduces the potential development of appropriate measures and preventive conservation. Because of this, the present cooperation project between international institutions aims to reverse this situation generating an appropriate working methodology with the collaboration of architects and geomatics engineers. The latter experts have been developing their profession in the field of heritage in recent times generating the geometric documentation of heritage and enhancing it by disseminating and visualizing it through geoportals and the use of mobile applications. All this geometric documentation, altogether with historical and cultural heritage information available will make it possible to monitor the existing heritage in the site, inasmuch as until now no official monitoring instrument has been established in this Ecuadorian province.


2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-148
Author(s):  
Natasa Zivaljevic-Luxor ◽  
Petar Mitkovic ◽  
Nadja Kurtovic-Folic

Nine briefly examined examples of built heritage in this paper reveal various cases of collision of conservation principles with demands of barrier-free architecture. The importance of this issue has been raised in the light of increasing world-wide efforts to preserve cultural heritage buildings for future generations by revitalization and strong efforts, in particularly in the EU, to reach higher standards in inclusion of all social groups.


2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 121
Author(s):  
Ardiana Yuli Puspitasari ◽  
Eppy Yuliani

ABSTRACTThe Old City area of Semarang is one of the areas designated as part of the heritage city of Semarang. Historically and the position of this region is very important role for the development of the city of Semarang and has important value for the science of urban planning, where the history of the formation of the city of Semarang and its development can not be separated from the existence of the Old City Area Semarang. Along with the development of the increasingly widespread city of Semarang, the old city of Semarang has long been abandoned and experienced environmental degradation. This of course has an effect on the area that is getting increasingly slum and left unchecked, whereas on the other hand the old city area has important values that must be maintained and maintained. The omission of important buildings that have historical value also continues to occur and causes the area to be slum and unhealthy. Through this research, there are goals to be achieved, namely important buildings identified as cultural heritage buildings are utilized by various conservation measures, so that the buildings can be functioned through adaptation of more present and complementary functions so that the old city area becomes alive and more productive. The method used to achieve these objectives is descriptive empirical which begins with extracting strategic issues in the field through interviews with building owners, the surrounding community and the Semarang City Government (Bappeda), as well as the old city area management body (BPK2L). The results of this study are that the concept of building utilizatio /function is carried out on buildings that are included in the first priority of handling, which are then categorized into 8 (eight) in accordance with the conditions and problems that occur in cultural heritage buildings. The concept of using cultural heritage buildings is directed as: museums, offices, art galleries, cafes/restaurants, souvenir shops, meeting rooms, homestays / guest houses, and places to sell antiques.Keywords: concepts, utilization, buildings, cultural heritage  ABSTRAKKawasan Kota Lama Semarang merupakan salah satu kawasan yang ditetapkan sebagai bagian dari kota pusaka Semarang. Secara historis dan posisi kawasan ini sangat penting perannya terhadap perkembangan Kota Semarang dan memiliki nilai penting bagi ilmu perencanaan wilayah kota, dimana sejarah terbentuknya Kota Semarang dan perkembangannya tidak terlepas dari keberadaan Kawasan Kota Lama Semarang. Seiring dengan perkembangan Kota Semarang yang semakin meluas, maka telah lama kawasan kota lama Semarang ditinggalkan dan mengalami degradasi lingkungan. Hal ini tentu saja berpengaruh terhadap kawasan yang semakin lama semakin kumuh dan dibiarkan, padahal disisi lain kawasan kota lama memiliki nilai penting yang harus dipertahankan dan terus dijaga. Pembiaran terhadap bangunan-bangunan penting yang memiliki nilai sejarah juga terus terjadi dan menyebabkan kawasan menjadi kumuh dan tidak sehat. Melalui penelitian ini, maka ada tujuan yang ingin dicapai yaitu bangunan-bangunan penting yang teridentifikasi sebagai bangunan cagar budaya termanfaatkan dengan berbagai tindakan pelestarian, sehingga bangunan-bangunan tersebut dapat difungsikan melalui adaptasi fungsi yang lebih kekinian dan saling mengisi sehingga kawasan kota lama menjadi hidup dan semakin produktif. Metode yang digunakan untuk mencapai tujuan tersebut adalah deskriptif empirik yang diawali dengan penggalian isu-isu strategis di lapangan melalui wawancara dengan pemilik bangunan, masyarakat sekitar dan Pemerintah Kota Semarang (Bappeda), serta badan pengelola kawasan kota lama (BPK2L). Hasil dari penelitian ini adalah konsep pemanfaatan/fungsi bangunan dilakukan pada bangunan yang masuk dalam prioritas I penanganan yang kemudian dikategorikan menjadi 8 (delapan) sesuai dengan kondisi dan permasalahan yang terjadi pada bangunan cagar budaya. Konsep pemanfataan bangunan cagar budaya diarahkan sebagai: museum, kantor, galeri seni, cafe/restoran, souvenir shop, meeting room, homestay/guest house, dan tempat penjualan barang antik. Kata kunci: konsep, pemanfataan, bangunan, cagar budaya


2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (14) ◽  
pp. 3953
Author(s):  
Andrés José Prieto ◽  
Juan Manuel Macías-Bernal ◽  
Ana Silva ◽  
Pilar Ortiz

In the current world economic situation, the maintenance of built heritage has been limited due to a lack of funds and accurate tools for proper management and implementation of these actions. However, in specific local areas, the maintenance and conservation of historical and cultural heritage have become an investment opportunity. In this sense, in this study, a new tool is proposed, for the estimation of the functional service life of heritage buildings in a local region (city of Seville, South Spain). This tool is developed in Art-Risk research project and consists of a free software to evaluate decisions in regional policies, planning and management of tangible and intangible cultural heritage, considering physical, environmental, economic and social resources. This tool provides a ranking of priority of intervention among case studies belonging to a particular urban context. This information is particularly relevant for the stakeholders responsible for the management of maintenance plans in built heritage.


2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bogusław Podhalański ◽  
Anna Połtowicz

Abstract The article discusses a project that features the relocation of the historic Atelier building, built by Krakow-based architect Wandalin Beringer (1839–1923) who was active in the early twentieth century, and the regeneration of a plot belonging to the Congregation of the Resurrection since 1885, which is located at 12 Łobzowska Street in Krakow. The method includes cutting the entire structure off at the foundation and then after reinforcing it with a steel structure transporting it in its entirety to the new location. The project included two possible variants of moving the building in a straight line, either by 21 or 59 metres and evaluates two projects of further regeneration, the adaptive reuse of the building as an exhibition and religious space as well as a proposal for the remodelling of the nearby plot that belongs to the Congregation into a space for meditation and as a recreational park. The aim of these measures is to prevent the demolition of this building, now over a century old, as a result of which a forgotten element of the cultural heritage of the city will be saved. This project was based on the results of analyses of the cultural and historical conditions of Krakow. The block of buildings in which the Atelier in question is located is a very attractive location, near to the very centre of Krakow, adjacent to residential, service and educational buildings. It is directly adjacent to the Monastery Complex of the Congregation of the Resurrection, listed as a heritage building under conservation protection (municipal registry of heritage buildings). In the second half of the twentieth century, the building was used as a workroom by artists such as Xawery Dunikowski and later by the sculptress Teodora Stasiak. The case of the Atelier may provide an inspiration for discussion as well as raising awareness among citizens and city authorities to avoid future situations in which cultural heritage may become forgotten or demolished.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 2878
Author(s):  
Soniya Billore

Cultural heritage is an invaluable asset of any city, region, or community and is an important component in the sustainable development of societies and economies. However, the role of cultural heritage has been understudied in terms of its social embeddedness and impact on social cohesion. This has led to a demand for more insights on how cultural heritage is conserved globally and more significantly via the role of societal stakeholders. Inclusive strategies allow diverse sections of a community to engage and enrich not only the anthropological interpretations of society but also support social stability and foster positive social change. This paper exemplifies how an inclusive approach was used to engage citizen engagement for the sustainable development of the built heritage in the city of Indore in central India. Best practices are presented through secondary data through various print and online sources relevant to the context. Open coding of secondary data has helped to identify strategic approaches and relationships that emerge as crucial to citizen engagement as presented in this study. The paper discusses strategies that, based on diversity and inclusivity, contribute to the enrichment of community knowledge, increased synergistic participation, and the enhancement of the sense of collective responsibility in cultural consumption.


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