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The document discusses the importance of architectural conservation, defining historic buildings as symbols of cultural identity and heritage that should be preserved for future generations. It outlines the different types of heritage, including tangible, intangible, and natural heritage, and emphasizes the need for conservation to retain identity, create awareness, and promote economic sustainability. The document also highlights the ethical standards and values that should guide conservation efforts, ensuring respect for the integrity of cultural properties.

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Module 01

The document discusses the importance of architectural conservation, defining historic buildings as symbols of cultural identity and heritage that should be preserved for future generations. It outlines the different types of heritage, including tangible, intangible, and natural heritage, and emphasizes the need for conservation to retain identity, create awareness, and promote economic sustainability. The document also highlights the ethical standards and values that should guide conservation efforts, ensuring respect for the integrity of cultural properties.

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ARCHITECTURAL CONSERVATION

MODULE 1

Lecture 1
Architectural Conservation
Ar. Reshma P R,
Assistant Professor,
Thejus college of Architecture
WHAT IS A HISTORIC BUILDING?
Produces a sense of awe and wonder
Symbol of our cultural identity and continuity -Part of our heritage
Survived for 100s of years
Has a prominent place in history
SHOULD WE CONSERVE OUR HISTORIC BUILDINGS? WHY?
ARCHITECTURAL CONSERVATION

• “Conservation is the action taken to prevent decay and manage change


dynamically” : Bernard Fielden

• Conservation is the process of prolonging the life of a building through


carefully planned interventions so that it is available to the present and future
generations to experience.
HERITAGE
Heritage is that which is inherited from past generations, maintained in the present, and bestowed to
future generations.

Chand Baori, Rajasthan Modhera, Gujarat.


CULTURAL HERITAGE :
Cultural Heritage is an expression of the ways of living developed by a community and
passed on from generation to generation, including customs, practices, places,
objects, artistic expressions and values. Cultural Heritage is often expressed as either
Intangible or Tangible Cultural Heritage (ICOMOS, 2002).
TANGIBLE HERITAGE
Heritage properties such as buildings, sites, monuments and artefacts that is
considered worthy of preservation for future.

INTANGIBLE HERITAGE
Heritage elements such as art forms, language, music, festivals, whose
knowledge are passed from generation to generation
NATURAL HERITAGE
Natural heritage refers to the sum total of the elements of biodiversity, including flora and fauna ,
ecosystems and geological structures

Great Himalayan National Park Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers National Park
BUILT HERITAGE

Built heritage consists of all aspects of


the man made historic environment
such as houses, factories, commercial
buildings, places of worship,
cemeteries, monuments and built
infrastructure such as roads, railways
and bridges physically created
places such as gardens, mining sites
and stock routes and other places of
historical significance such as
archaeological sites.
ANCIENT MONUMENT

Any structure, cave, inscription of historic,


archaeological and artistic value, which
has been in existence for not less than 100
years according to AMASR Act 1958.

In British law, an ancient monument is an


early historical structure or monument (eg:
an archaeological site) worthy of
preservation and study due to
archaeological or heritage interest.
NEED FOR CONSERVATION

• Retaining Local, Regional and National


Identity and integrity.
• Preservation of knowledge and skills
• Creating Awareness in common citizen
• Economic Sustainability
• Reduction of Demolition Waste
• Reduce threat from aesthetic domination
VALUES IN CONSERVATION

The ‘values’ come under three major headings:

(1) Emotional values: (a) wonder; (b) identity; (c) continuity; (d) spiritual and
symbolic.

(2) Cultural values: (a) documentary; (b) historic; (c) archaeological, age and
scarcity; (d) aesthetic and symbolic; (e) architectural; (f ) townscape, landscape
and ecological; (g) technological and scientific.

(3) Use values: (a) functional; (b) economic; (c) social; (d) educational; (e)
political and ethnic.

• Having analyzed these values they should be condensed into a statement of


the significance of the cultural property.
VALUES IN CONSERVATION

• Conservation must preserve and if possible enhance the messages and


values of cultural property.

• These values help systematically to set overall priorities in deciding proposed


interventions, as well as to establish the extent and nature of the individual
treatment.

• The assignment of priority values will inevitably reflect the cultural context of
each historic building.
ETHICS OF CONSERVATION

The following standard of ethics must be rigorously observed in conservation work:

(1) The condition of the building must be recorded before any intervention.
(2) Historic evidence must not be destroyed, falsified or removed.
(3) Any intervention must be the minimum necessary.
(4) Any intervention must be governed by unswerving respect for the aesthetic,
historical and physical integrity of cultural property.
(5) All methods and materials used during treatment must be fully documented.
HUMAYUNS‘S TOMB
ETHICS OF CONSERVATION

Any proposed interventions should


(a) be reversible or repeatable, if technically possible, or
(b) at least not prejudice a future intervention whenever this may become necessary;
(c) not hinder the possibility of later access to all evidence incorporated in the object;
(d) allow the maximum amount of existing material to be retained;
(e) be harmonious in colour, tone, texture, form and scale, if additions are necessary,
(but should be less noticeable than original material, while at the same time being identifiable; )

(f) not be undertaken by conservator/restorers who are insufficiently trained or


experienced, unless they obtain competent advice.
(However, it must be recognized that some problems are unique and have to be solved from first principles on a trial-and-error basis)
Architectural conservation Arts conservation
dealing with materials in an open and virtually able to rely on good environmental
uncontrollable environment—the external climate control to minimize deterioration
The scale is much larger Smaller in scale
Because of the size and complexity of architecture, a the art conservator may do most of
variety of people involved in architectural the treatment himself
conservation (contractors, technicians and craftsmen)

• Understanding of objectives, communication and supervision are most important aspects of


architectural conservation.
• The architectural fabric has to function as a structure, resisting dead and live loadings, and
must provide a suitable internal environment as well as be protected against certain
hazards such as fire and vandalism.
• The architectural conservation of a building also involves its site, setting and physical
environment.

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