The Impression of Endowment on Urban Zone Formation and Protection and Maintenance of Historical Buildings, Case Study Aligholi Agha Complex

This paper presents a framework of introducing GIS technology to record and analyse cultural heritages in continuous spatial scales. The research team is developing a systematic approach to support heritage conservation research and practice on historical buildings, courtyards, historical towns, and archaeological sites ad landscapes. These studies are conducted not only from the property or site scales, but also investigated from their contexts in setting as well as regional scales. From these continues scales, authenticity and integrity of a heritage can be interpreted from a broader spatial and temporal context, in which GIS would contribute through database, spatial analysis, and visualization. The case study is the construction of a information indexing framework of Dagu Dock industrial heritage to integrate physical buildings, courtyards, natural settings as well as their intangible characteristics which are affiliated to the physical heritage properties and presented through historical, social and culture semantics. The paper illustrates methodology and content of recording physical and social/cultural semantics of culture heritages on different scales as well as connection between different levels of database.

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Towards a systematic approach for energy refurbishment of historical buildings. The case study of Albergo dei Poveri in Genoa, Italy

Energy and Buildings ◽

10.1016/j.enbuild.2014.10.051 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 95 ◽

pp. 153-159 ◽

Cited By ~ 22

Author(s):

Giovanna Franco ◽

Anna Magrini ◽

Marco Cartesegna ◽

Marco Guerrini

Keyword(s):

Systematic Approach ◽

Historical Buildings

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The Contribution of the Turkish Historical Society to the First Stage of the Governmental Program for the Protection of Monuments in Edirne (1933-1941): Preservation Policies and Ideology in the Representation of Architectural Heritage

Belleten ◽

10.37879/belleten.2012.673 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 76 (276) ◽

pp. 673-690

Author(s):

Giorgio Gasco

Keyword(s):

Point Of View ◽

Visual Narrative ◽

Ministry Of Education ◽

Historical Buildings ◽

Architectural Heritage ◽

Historical Society ◽

Emerging Culture ◽

Historical Heritage ◽

Scientific Base

The beginning of restoration works on a scientific base in Turkey dates back on 1933 when a specific committee for the protection of monuments (Anıtları Koruma Komisyonu) was officially appointed by the Ministry of Education. The preliminary working phase, carried on under the direction of this committee, was soon distinguished by the clear attempt to visualize the results in order to cast the monuments as national icons. The present paper's aim is to discuss this process of visualization focusing on the case study of a series of works realized in Edime from 1933 to 1944. Apart from the historical value of monuments included in the protection program, the study explores the ideological side of these works stressing their value as a pioneering enterprise of a modem nation that celebrated its emerging culture in the protection and preservation of monuments as a sign of progress and civilization. Edirne's restoration works in fact arouse a great deal of interest in the national press, becoming the best show-case for the effort of the Ministry. By this point of view the study focuses on the key-role played by the Turkish Historical Society in the construction of a visual narrative in the attempt to disseminate the result of these works. In particular the efforts of the Turkish Historical Society in advertising the scheduled interventions found their outlet in the editing of a set of postcards displaying Edirne's historical buildings. The result is a series of powerful images in which a number of buildings are re-casted as the first cultural-historical assets of the Turkish nation. The construction of this visual material was set according to a powerful aesthetic format, clear and instantly recognizable, in order to assure an immediate public reception of the historical heritage of the country. The collection of these images stands as a prime contribution in the construction of the national identity of the country thanks to the production of a collective visual heritage, that, on the ground of an effective popular aesthetics, was able to feature the idea of nation as a landscape of monuments.

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Designing the Sustainable Adaptive Reuse of Industrial Heritage to Enhance the Local Context

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12219059 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (21) ◽

pp. 9059 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Stefania De Gregorio ◽

Mariangela De Vita ◽

Pierluigi De Berardinis ◽

Luis Palmero ◽

Alessandra Risdonne

Keyword(s):

Adaptive Reuse ◽

Methodological Approach ◽

Economic Benefits ◽

Local Economy ◽

Local Context ◽

Historical Buildings ◽

Industrial Heritage ◽

Architectural Characteristics ◽

The City

Since the European Year of Cultural Heritage, adaptive reuse is considered a strategy for intervention on historical buildings and territories to preserve and enhance artifacts, cities, and communities. Adaptive reuse can also generate social and economic benefits. This work looks at adaptive reuse in the context of industrial heritage, which represents an excellent test benchmark because of its intrinsic architectural characteristics and its localization in the city suburbs. The paper puts forward a methodological approach, verified through the application to a case study, which analyzes both the local context and the building. This study concludes using the data obtained to define an adaptive reuse project with positive repercussions for the community, the environment, and the local economy.

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The Complexity and the Logic Behind Historical Buildings: The Case-Study of Palazzo del Podestà in Mantova, Italy

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.133-134.181 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 133-134 ◽

pp. 181-186

Author(s):

Marco Cofani ◽

Verena Frignani ◽

Angelo Landi

Keyword(s):

Diagnostic Tests ◽

Historical Buildings ◽

Real Situation ◽

The Real ◽

Town Council ◽

The Future ◽

The Town

The Palazzo del Podestà, situated in the centre of Mantua, has Medieval origins, but it is the result of many additions and reconstructions and it is now abandoned. In 2005 the Town Council commissioned the Politecnico of Milan a research on the real situation of the palaces, in order to determine the future possible uses of the buildings. The causes of the structural decays were investigated and furtherly studied by means of a comparison between archive records and diagnostic tests.

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Long-term deformation analysis of historical buildings through the advanced SBAS-DInSAR technique: the case study of the city of Rome, Italy

Journal of Geophysics and Engineering ◽

10.1088/1742-2132/8/3/s01 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. S1-S12 ◽

Cited By ~ 25

Author(s):

G Zeni ◽

M Bonano ◽

F Casu ◽

M Manunta ◽

M Manzo ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Deformation Analysis ◽

Historical Buildings ◽

The City

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An Integrated HBIM Simulation Approach for Energy Retrofit of Historical Buildings Implemented in a Case Study of a Medieval Fortress in Italy

Energies ◽

10.3390/en13102601 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (10) ◽

pp. 2601 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Cristina Piselli ◽

Jessica Romanelli ◽

Matteo Di Grazia ◽

Augusto Gavagni ◽

Elisa Moretti ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Central Italy ◽

Energy Performance ◽

Information Modeling ◽

Integrated Modelling ◽

Water Tank ◽

Hvac System ◽

Historical Buildings ◽

Building Stock ◽

Energy Retrofit

The Italian building stock consists of buildings mainly constructed until the mid-20th century using pre-industrial construction techniques. These buildings require energy refurbishment that takes into account the preservation of their architectural heritage. In this view, this work studies an innovative integrated modelling and simulation framework consisting of the implementation of Historical Building Information Modeling (HBIM) for the energy retrofit of historical buildings with renewable geothermal HVAC system. To this aim, the field case study is part of a medieval complex in Central Italy (Perugia), as representative ancient rural offshore architecture in the European countryside. The system involves of a ground source heat pump, a water tank for thermal-energy storage connected to a low-temperature radiant system, and an air-handling unit. The building heating energy performance, typically influenced by thermal inertia in historical buildings, when coupled to the novel HVAC system, is comparatively assessed against a traditional scenario implementing a natural-gas boiler, and made inter-operative within the HBIM ad hoc platform. Results show that the innovative renewable energy system provides relevant benefits while preserving minor visual and architectural impact within the historical complex, and also in terms of both energy saving, CO2 emissions offset, and operation costs compared to the traditional existing system. The integrated HBIM approach may effectively drive the path toward regeneration and re-functioning of heritage in Europe.

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