scholarly journals A Methodological Approach for Assessing the Safety of Historic Buildings’ Façades

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 2812
Author(s):  
Giovanni Ruggiero ◽  
Rossella Marmo ◽  
Maurizio Nicolella
Keyword(s):  
Public Safety ◽  
Risk Mitigation ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Heritage Conservation ◽  
Historic Buildings ◽  
Maintenance Planning ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
Synthetic Indicator ◽  
Public Exposure ◽  
Collapsed Building

Inefficiency in maintaining and managing architectural heritage threatens both heritage conservation and public safety. Damage related to collapsed building elements requires an investigation into the factors which cause these phenomena in order to prevent them and to mitigate their effects. This paper aims to define a methodological approach for assessing the risk to humans of falling bodies from historic buildings’ façades. The method is based on the identification of a group of parameters to assess façade’s hazards, vulnerability and public exposure. The results provide the identification of risk factors and related affecting parameters, proposing a synthetic indicator to quantify the risk. The proposal is original in the field of both maintenance planning and preventive maintenance, intending to preserve architectural heritage and public safety. The results lead to an easy tool, as a map, to prioritise risk mitigation interventions. Such a tool, if integrated into maintenance tenders, allows the evaluation, in the context of condition-based maintenance, of the need for interventions.

scholarly journals Enhancing the heritage conservation by Sustaining Historical Buildings: Hail Palace, as a Case Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (16) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdullah Alorf ◽  
Nashwan Al-Ansi
Keyword(s):  
Publishing House ◽  
Heritage Conservation ◽  
Historic Buildings ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
Conservation Policies ◽  
Heritage Buildings ◽  
Vision 2030 ◽  
International Publishing

Saudi Arabia has a wealth of heritage buildings that still exist today. Therefore, the need to preserve the architectural heritage of historical and cultural significance is becoming increasingly relevant. In line with the Saudi vision 2030, the study deals with evaluation methods implemented to preserve and restore historic buildings. Thus, efforts are continuing to implement conservation policies and evaluate them to arrive at appropriate strategies. Therefore, the case study was chosen to explain the importance of the existing conservation policies to ensure that the heritage buildings are handled to retain their ingenuity. Keywords: Heritage Conservation, Historic Buildings, Architectural Heritage, Preservation. eISSN: 2398-4287© 2021. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians/Africans/Arabians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI:

Drawing, Information, and Design

2017 ◽  
pp. 355-386
Author(s):  
Donatella Fiorani ◽  
Marta Acierno
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
Heritage Conservation ◽  
Communications Technology ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
Process Information ◽  
Cultural Heritage Conservation ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Future Object

Although widely employed within the Architectural Heritage conservation process, Information and Communications Technology (ICT) techniques still present many serious issues for the discipline. Current research highlights a possible methodological approach to devise an ICT instrument that could support activities for Cultural Heritage conservation, while maintaining full respect for the specifics of the discipline. Reviewing current ICT and Architecture Engineering and Construction (AEC) applications, it is possible to note that the proposed approach is at the moment reversed: modelling does not arise as the projection of a future object, but rather from the knowledge needed to represent an existing site as accurately as possible. The proposed goal, reflecting the operative methodology of the conservation process, seems to offer a greater range of representativeness and to resolve, at least, some of the critical topics that have arisen from the application of ICT to Cultural Heritage to date.

Drawing, Information, and Design

2019 ◽  
pp. 18-48
Author(s):  
Donatella Fiorani ◽  
Marta Acierno
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
Heritage Conservation ◽  
Communications Technology ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
Process Information ◽  
Cultural Heritage Conservation ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Future Object

Although widely employed within the Architectural Heritage conservation process, Information and Communications Technology (ICT) techniques still present many serious issues for the discipline. Current research highlights a possible methodological approach to devise an ICT instrument that could support activities for Cultural Heritage conservation, while maintaining full respect for the specifics of the discipline. Reviewing current ICT and Architecture Engineering and Construction (AEC) applications, it is possible to note that the proposed approach is at the moment reversed: modelling does not arise as the projection of a future object, but rather from the knowledge needed to represent an existing site as accurately as possible. The proposed goal, reflecting the operative methodology of the conservation process, seems to offer a greater range of representativeness and to resolve, at least, some of the critical topics that have arisen from the application of ICT to Cultural Heritage to date.

scholarly journals Hotel design and adaptive reuse: From historic palaces to the city’s dilapidated structures

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marko Nikolic ◽  
Nadja Kurtovic-Folic ◽  
Aleksandar Milojkovic
Keyword(s):  
Historic Buildings ◽  
Historical Buildings ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
Popular Approach ◽  
Alternative Models ◽  
Hotel Design ◽  
Historic Structures ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

At the time of changing economic circumstances, adaptation and conversion of historic structures is an increasingly popular approach. Some historical buildings are very suitable for the revitalization into the modern hotels. The paper analyzes the relationship of the hotel, the city and its architectural heritage, as well as some of the factors that led to the eruption of alternative models of hotels, shown through a series of successful solutions. Many challenges of hotel design in historic buildings are listed and corresponding solutions are offered. Some methodological directions are indicated, and certain guidelines and principles for further activities in this field are formulated. In conclusion their applicability in practice is discussed, and certain disadvantages and limitations are listed.

scholarly journals Influence of the addition of carbon fibers on the properties of hydraulic lime mortars: comparison with glass and basalt fibers

2020 ◽  
Vol 70 (340) ◽  
pp. 229
Author(s):  
A. Bustos ◽  
E. Moreno ◽  
F. González ◽  
A. Cobo
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Fibers ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Void Content ◽  
Historic Buildings ◽  
Basalt Fibers ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
Hydraulic Lime ◽  
Lime Mortars ◽  
Air Void ◽  
Mechanical Strengths

In recent years, the use of hydraulic lime in conservation and restoration of historic buildings has increased due to the pathological processes involved in the use of Portland cement. This investigation deter­mines the properties of hydraulic lime mortars with added carbon fibers for their possible use in restoration of architectural heritage. The results obtained are compared with mortars to which glass and basalt fibers have been added. The results show that the fibers affect significantly the behaviour of the mortar. Although the fibers have a negative impact in the workability and increase the air void content, they improve significantly the mechanical strengths. Although no relevant differences have been found in the pre-cracking behaviour, it has been proven that the fibers avoid a fragile behaviour of the mortar, showing a better post-cracking behaviour. Mortars with carbon fibers are the ones that show the best performance, increasing the toughness up to 12080% over the reference mortars.

The Importance of Being Honest

3D Printing ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 333-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Brusaporci
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Computing ◽  
3D Model ◽  
Digital Model ◽  
Historic Buildings ◽  
Historical Buildings ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
Digital Heritage ◽  
Digital Modeling ◽  
Scientific Analysis ◽  
The Relationship

The chapter presents a reflection on the concept of transparency in digital modeling and visualization of Architectural Heritage. Moving from topics of transparency and from the experiences in using paradata in different fields to state model's source, the degree of reliability of virtual re-constructions, and to made the digital model testable by other professionals, transparency and paradata are studied and declined for a dedicated application to historical buildings. In fact paradata is useful for model's design, use, management, diffusion, archiving, and interoperability. This according to an aim of model's intellectual transparency, and scientific computing and visualization of historic buildings. Follows issues about: the relationship between physical and digital heritage, the design of the digital 3D model and the database, the communication of transparency through spatial visualizations and multiple windowed representations, the transparency as possible methodological workflow for scientific analysis.

Reinforced Lime Concrete with FRP: An Alternative in the Restoration of Architectural Heritage

2016 ◽  
Vol 851 ◽  
pp. 751-756
Author(s):  
Ana Almerich-Chulia ◽  
E. Fenollosa ◽  
Pedro Martin
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Characteristics ◽  
Fiber Reinforced Polymer ◽  
Historic Buildings ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
Gfrp Bars ◽  
Reinforced Polymer ◽  
Glass Fiber Reinforced ◽  
New Material ◽  
Traditional Structures ◽  
Corrosion Of Steel

Reinforced concrete has been the material mainly used in the repair of traditional structures of historic buildings. However, since the end of the 20th century, it began to question its use, especially for damages arising from corrosion of steel. An alternative is lime concrete reinforced with Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymer (GFRP) bars. Current lime concrete provides a high compressive strength and prevent problems such as cement alkalinity. GFRP bars provide the necessary tensile strength. Its modulus of elasticity and adhesion, improved by various mechanisms, allows good compatibility with concrete lime. Mechanical characteristics of the mixture are studied together to withstand the tensions and compressions in historic buildings. This new material is progressively replacing to Portland cement in the restoration of architectural heritage

scholarly journals A ‘ghastly interregnum’: the struggle for architectural heritage conservation in Belfast before 1972

Urban History ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 150-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANDREW G. MCCLELLAND
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Heritage Conservation ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
Industrial Archaeology ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Uk

ABSTRACTThis article explores the creation of the system for the conservation of architectural heritage in Northern Ireland, evidencing the struggle for convergence within the UK before 1972. The agency of networked individuals, close state–civil society interrelationships and the innovative actions of conservationist groups in response to legislative and practice inadequacies in the 1960s are discussed. In particular, a series of ‘pre-statutory lists’ are introduced, highlighting the burgeoning interest in industrial archaeology and Victorian architecture in Belfast and the prompt provided to their creation by redevelopment. The efforts of conservationists were eventually successful after the collapse of Devolution in the early 1970s.

Notes on anthropogenic risks mitigation management and recovery of ancient theatres’ heritage

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 222-256
Author(s):  
Naif Adel Haddad ◽  
Leen Adeeb Fakhoury ◽  
Talal S. Akasheh
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Risk Mitigation ◽  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Preventive Conservation ◽  
Qualitative Risk Assessment ◽  
Technical Risks

Purpose Ancient theatres and odea are one of the most significant and creative socio-cultural edutainment centres of human history that are still in use. They stood and served as huge multi-functional structures for social, religious, propaganda and political meeting space. Meanwhile, ancient theatres’ sites have an intrinsic value for all people, and as a vital basis for cultural diversity, social and economic development, they should continue to be a source of information for future generations. Though, all places with ancient theatre heritage should be assessed as to their potential risk from any anthropogenic or natural process. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach The main paper’s objective is to discuss mainly the anthropogenic and technical risks, vulnerability and impact issues on the ancient classical theatres. While elaborating on relevant recent studies, where the authors were involved in ERATO and ATHENA European projects for ancient theatres and odea, this paper provides a brief overview of the main aspects of the anthropogenic qualitative risks and related issues for selected classical antiquity theatres. Some relevant cases are critically presented and investigated in order to examine and clarify the main risk mitigation issues as an essential prerequisite for theatre heritage preservation and its interface with heritage reuse. Findings Theatre risk mitigation is an ongoing and challenging task. By preventive conservation, theatre anthropogenic qualitative risks’ management can provide a framework for decision making. The needed related guidelines and recommendations that provide a systematic approach for sustainable management and planning in relation mainly to “ancient theatre compatible use” and “theatre technical risks” are analysed and presented. This is based on identification, classification and assessment of the theatre risk causes and contributing factors and their mitigation. Originality/value The paper also suggests a new methodological approach for the theatre anthropogenic qualitative risk assessment and mitigation management, and develop some recommendations that provide a systematic approach for theatre site managers and heritage experts to understand, assess, and mitigate risks mainly due to anthropogenic and technical threats.

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