Conservation and development of the historic garden in a landscape context: A systematic literature review

Although there have been numerous studies on the heritage attributes, characteristics, and values of the historic garden as a special category of cultural heritage, the question is why a comprehensive review combining mainstream historic garden conservation with ways of understanding the garden in a landscape context has not been conducted....

The role of attributes defining intervention concepts in international doctrinal documents on built heritage

Purpose: Attributes conveying cultural significance play a key role in heritage management, as well as in differentiating interventions in built heritage. However, seldom the relation between interventions and attributes, either tangible or intangible, has been researched systematically. How do both tangible and intangible attributes and...

(Re-)Framing Authenticity: Industrial Heritage Reuse Strategies in Review

The present essay examines the influence of authenticity’s notion on <br/>Industrial Heritage Reuse practices in Europe from the 1970’s onwards. This <br/>consideration formed the motive of the carried-out analysis. Initially, <br/>authenticity’s theoretical framework is being interpreted through its latent <br/>relation to intangible heritage....

Innovation of Conservation: Towards Energy Efficient Monuments

Monuments are often not energy efficient, yet improving the energy performance without harming the cultural values is still a complex process. By only conserving a building without making adaptations, a mismatch can arise between the demand of the user and the building. Next to that, using Building Information Modeling (BIM) to assess the...

Predicting salt damage in practice: a theoretical insight into laboratory tests

Salt crystallization represents one of the major causes for the degradation of building and ornamental stone. As such, it has attracted the attention of researchers, who over the years have progressively unraveled most mechanisms involved in salt damage. Despite this mechanistic understanding, many questions subsist about how to quantitatively...