scholarly journals Wetland Square, Market Pier: Rethinking Heritage in the New Zealand Regional Landscape

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Rachel Murray
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Agricultural Activity ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Urban Centre ◽  
Protection Measures ◽  
Land Protection ◽  
Conservation Practice ◽  
Natural Systems ◽  
Regional Landscape ◽  
The Town

<p>This thesis addresses the rapid environmental degradation and socioeconomic decline to which many of New Zealand's lowland regions have succumbed. In the last 150 years, it is estimated that 90% of the country’s indigenous wetlands and swamp forests have been drained and converted to farming pastures and low-density urban sprawl. This thesis critiques existing settlement patterns, investigating innovative urban forms that work dually to reactivate the wetland environments while increasing population density to levels required for public systems to function sustainably and vitally.  These objectives are explored using design-led research, investigating a site-specific scenario in Kāpiti, Wellington region. The design project identifies a squared-off suburban conservation wetland, transforming it into a new Wetland Square: a civic heart of the region’s natural and cultural heritage with reference to the town square urban type. A Market Pier extends from the urban edge of the town square towards the central lagoon. This architectural intervention connects the new urban centre with the wider agricultural activity of Kāpiti while reinstating the historic functions and cultural significance of the wetlands which indigenous Māori historically navigated by canoe in search of food and resources.   The research rethinks land conservation practice in New Zealand’s settled regional landscapes. It advocates that conservation efforts should expand beyond current land protection measures to also consider conserving the historic relationship between early settlers and natural systems. The thesis stresses architecture’s responsibility to reconcile urban and ecological systems, with emphasis on celebrating the rich social and cultural heritage associated with New Zealand’s natural heritage to ensure environmental and community resilience in the regional landscape.</p>

scholarly journals Wetland Square, Market Pier: Rethinking Heritage in the New Zealand Regional Landscape

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Rachel Murray
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Agricultural Activity ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Urban Centre ◽  
Protection Measures ◽  
Land Protection ◽  
Conservation Practice ◽  
Natural Systems ◽  
Regional Landscape ◽  
The Town

<p>This thesis addresses the rapid environmental degradation and socioeconomic decline to which many of New Zealand's lowland regions have succumbed. In the last 150 years, it is estimated that 90% of the country’s indigenous wetlands and swamp forests have been drained and converted to farming pastures and low-density urban sprawl. This thesis critiques existing settlement patterns, investigating innovative urban forms that work dually to reactivate the wetland environments while increasing population density to levels required for public systems to function sustainably and vitally.  These objectives are explored using design-led research, investigating a site-specific scenario in Kāpiti, Wellington region. The design project identifies a squared-off suburban conservation wetland, transforming it into a new Wetland Square: a civic heart of the region’s natural and cultural heritage with reference to the town square urban type. A Market Pier extends from the urban edge of the town square towards the central lagoon. This architectural intervention connects the new urban centre with the wider agricultural activity of Kāpiti while reinstating the historic functions and cultural significance of the wetlands which indigenous Māori historically navigated by canoe in search of food and resources.   The research rethinks land conservation practice in New Zealand’s settled regional landscapes. It advocates that conservation efforts should expand beyond current land protection measures to also consider conserving the historic relationship between early settlers and natural systems. The thesis stresses architecture’s responsibility to reconcile urban and ecological systems, with emphasis on celebrating the rich social and cultural heritage associated with New Zealand’s natural heritage to ensure environmental and community resilience in the regional landscape.</p>

scholarly journals Wetland square, market Pier: Designing for heritage in the New Zealand regional landscape

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Sari-Dewi Murray ◽  
Sam Kebbell ◽  
Martin Bryant
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Population Density ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Settlement Patterns ◽  
Land Conservation ◽  
Conservation Practice ◽  
Urban Forms ◽  
Urban Edge ◽  
Regional Landscape ◽  
The Town

Supervisors: Sam Kebbell, Martin Bryant This design-led research project addresses the rapid environmental degradation and socioeconomic decline to which many of New Zealand's low-lying swampland regions have succumbed. The research critiques existing settlement patterns, investigating innovative urban forms that work dually to reactivate the wetland environments while increasing population density to levels required for public systems to function sustainably and vitally. The design project identifies a squared-off urban conservation wetland, transforming it into a new Wetland Square: a civic heart of the region’s natural and cultural heritage. A Market Pier is also proposed, extending from the urban edge of the town square towards the central wetland lagoon. The research rethinks traditional land conservation practice in New Zealand’s settled regional landscapes, stressing architecture’s responsibility to reconcile urban, ecological and cultural heritage systems to ensure environmental and community resilience in the regional landscape.

Cultural Heritage and Adaptive Reuse as a Contributor to Well-Being

2020 ◽  
pp. 248-272
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Conservation Practice ◽  
Heritage Buildings ◽  
Point Interior ◽  
Interior Environments ◽  
Cultural Belonging

This chapter aims to discuss the dialectic relationship between interior environments of heritage buildings and users and the importance of preserving interior elements as communicators of cultural significance. Today the conservation practice and reuse proposals focus on preserving the architectural envelope of buildings rather than interior aspects. Conversely, interiors need specific safeguard and care, not only due to their cultural significance but also because they are the part most closely connected to the real life of users. In the perspective of cultural conservation, existing buildings represent the continuity of cultural values from the past to the future, and at this point, interior architecture is crucial as it provides an authentic interaction between users and spaces conveying all these values. Therefore, the conservation of interior envelope and interior elements rises as a very important issue to be discussed, affecting the occupant's well-being in a very subjective and sometimes unconscious way (considering the cultural belonging).

Applicability of traditional storage methods in Indonesia for today’s conservation practice

IFLA Journal ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 034003522110230
Author(s):  
Patricia Engel
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Tropical Country ◽  
Conservation Practice ◽  
Traditional Art ◽  
Puppet Theatre ◽  
Storage Methods ◽  
Conservation Projects ◽  
Museum Of Contemporary Art

This contribution aims to distil the experience from several conservation projects in Java, Indonesia, into a summary of methods in an attempt to arrive at some suggestions for best practice for the preservation of cultural heritage items in a tropical country. The related projects concerned a museum of contemporary art, traditional puppet theatre materials, a museum of traditional art and an archive.

scholarly journals Documentation for emergency condition mapping of Decorated historic surfaces at the Caid Residence, the Kasbah of Taourirt (Ouarzazate, Morocco)

2015 ◽  
Vol II-5/W3 ◽  
pp. 229-234
Author(s):  
K. Percy ◽  
C. Ouimet ◽  
S. Ward ◽  
M. Santana Quintero ◽  
C. Cancino ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
End Users ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Irreversible Damage ◽  
Protection Measures ◽  
Collaborative Project ◽  
Rapid Mapping ◽  
Emergency Condition ◽  
Emergency Stabilization ◽  
Imminent Risk

As it is broadly understood, recording serves as a basis for the diagnosis, treatment and preservation of historic places and contributes to record our built cultural heritage for posterity. This work is not a stand-alone practice but a part of the overall conservation process of cultural heritage at imminent risk of irreversible damage. Recording of heritage places should be directly related to the needs, skills and the technology that are available to the end users that are responsible for the management and care of these sites. They should be selected in a way that the future managers of these sites can also access and use the data collected. This paper explains an innovative heritage recording approach applied by the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) and Carleton Immersive Media Studio (CIMS) in the documentation of historic decorated surfaces at the Caïd Residence, located at <i>Tighermt (Kasbah)</i> <i>Taourirt</i> in Ouarzazate, Morocco; as part of a collaborative project between the GCI and the <i>Centre de Conservation et Réhabilitation du Patrimoine Architectural des Zones Atlasiques et Sub-Atlasiques</i> (CERKAS) to rehabilitate the entire architectural ensemble. The selected recording techniques were used for the rapid mapping of conditions of the decorated surfaces at the Caïd Residence using international standards. The resulting work is being used by GCI staff, consultants and CERKAS team to conduct emergency stabilization and protection measures for these important decorated surfaces.

Light Design of Small Towns’ Coastal Areas

2021 ◽  
pp. 51-54
Author(s):  
Oleg G. Maksimov ◽  
Olga Yu. Zaripova
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Water Storage ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Coastal Areas ◽  
Town Development ◽  
Experimental Project ◽  
Storage Basin ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
The Town ◽  
Functional Concept

This paper touches upon the problems of development and illumination of small Russian towns located on the banks of rivers and water storage basins (as exemplified by master’s theses). These problems lie on the plane of preservation and effective use of architectural, historical, and cultural heritage of towns, their unusual aura and colour. In the experimental project of town development based on the town of Yurievets situated on the bank of Volga water storage basin, the authors propose an architectural-spatial functional concept of filling up the town territory with the ideas on original colour and light design in the evening and at night.

Ephemeral Architecture and Painted Architecture

2019 ◽  
pp. 151-177
Author(s):  
Gabriele Rossi ◽  
Valentina Castagnolo
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Regional Context ◽  
Unesco Convention

The object of this study is a group of architectural perspectives painted on the domes and walls of noble palaces in Apulia, in particular that the baronial palace in Botrugno, the Broquier palace in Trani, and the Manes palace in Bisceglie. The perspectives belong to the “Quadratura” genre that developed in Italy and Europe in the Baroque period, but the architectural solutions represented are specific of the Apulian regional context, of Neapolitan derivation, rather than linked to the noble models of the Emilian and Roman master experiences. These architectural perspectives can be considered belonging to that “immaterial cultural heritage,” as defined by the UNESCO Convention for the Protection of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of 2003, if we consider the cultural significance of these painting representations—as previously mentioned—for their relationship with the 16th-17th century painting season of “Quadratura,” for the massive production of treatises on perspective, as well as for the Baroque experiences and for the tradition in the use of “Festa” ephemeral architectures.

scholarly journals Oral Histories of a Layered Landscape: The Rushworth Oral History Project

2007 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keir Reeves ◽  
E. Rebecca Sanders ◽  
Gordon Chisholm
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Regional Identity ◽  
Landscape Analysis ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Cultural Complexity ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Town

This article reflects the authors’ experience of undertaking an oral history project in the regional Victorian town of Rushworth. The authors of the article contend that to conduct an investigation of the natural and cultural heritage of the town and surrounding forests is also to engage in an archaeology of historical landscapes. The authors, after articulating the theoretical and methodological issues of oral history, name and trace the various historical layers of the landscape of Rushworth and the forest that surrounds the town. They argue that the use of oral history in conjunction with cultural landscape analysis enables a deeper understanding of the cultural complexity of the history of Rushworth and the surrounding region. Broader issues concerning regional identity and the role of historians in providing a greater understanding of the community in the present day are also evaluated.

scholarly journals Keeping Watch on Intangible Cultural Heritage: Live Transmission and Sustainable Development of Chinese Lacquer Art

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (14) ◽  
pp. 3868 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoting Song ◽  
Yongzhong Yang ◽  
Ruo Yang ◽  
Mohsin Shafi
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Reference Value ◽  
Final Conclusion ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Protection Measures ◽  
Whole Process ◽  
Countermeasures And Suggestions ◽  
Depth Interviews

Countries all over the world have been constantly exploring ways to rescue and protect intangible cultural heritage. While learning from other countries’ protection measures, the Chinese government is also constantly exploring ways that conform to China’s national conditions. As China’s first batch of intangible cultural heritage, lacquer art boasts a brilliant history, but many people are not familiar with it today. Moreover, in the process of modernization, the lacquer art transmission is declining day by day, and it is facing unprecedented major crises such as loss and division of history into periods. Hence, it is essential to verify and reveal the challenges and dilemmas in the lacquer art transmission, and come up with corresponding protection measures around these problems. First of all, this research, through literature review, “horizontally” explores the current research status and the universal problems of lacquer art transmission from the macro level. With a view to make up for the deficiencies of the existing research and further supplement the empirical evidence, the current research, with the transmission of “Chengdu lacquer art” as an example and through in-depth interviews, tracks and investigates the whole process of transmission of Chengdu Lacquer Art Training Institute, and “vertically” analyzes the survival situation of lacquer art transmission and the core problems affecting transmission behaviors from the micro level. In the final conclusion, the research comes up with corresponding countermeasures and suggestions for the identified key problems, which is of significant reference value for facilitating the live transmission and sustainable development of Chinese lacquer art.

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