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TERMINOLOGY

 Conservation:
 Preservation:
 Restoration:
 Architectural Conservation:
 Urban Conservation:
 Listed Building:
 Conservation Area:

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CONSERVATION
• An occurrence of improvement by virtue of preventing loss or
injury or other change.
• The protection and careful management of the environment
and of natural resources.
• The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of
a thing) in a safe or entire state.
• Architectural conservation: The protection, preservation and
management of buildings and sites to save them and make
them useful.
• Architectural conservation: The wise management of
architectural resources in a way to maintain, restore, enhance
and protect their quality and quantity for sustained benefit.

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PRESERVATION
• The activity of protecting something from loss or
danger.

• Means maintaining the fabric of a place in its


existing condition and stopping deterioration.

• Generally, saving from destruction or


deterioration old and historic buildings, sites,
structures, and objects, and providing for their
continued use by means of maintenance,
restoration, rehabilitation, or adaptive use.
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RESTORATION
• The act of restoring something or someone to a
satisfactory state .

• Building restoration describes the process of the


renewal and refurbishment of the fabric of a
building.

• Restore - return to its original or usable and


functioning condition.

• The process of returning something to its original


4 condition or undamaged state.
LISTED BUILDING
• Any building designated as being of historic
architectural interest by an official institution
dedicated to the preservation of historic
architecture.

• A building protected from demolition or alteration


because of its special historical or architectural
interest.

• A building officially recognized as having special


historical or architectural interest, and therefore,
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CONSERVATION AREA
• An area of special architectural or historic
interest, the character and appearance of which it
is desirable to preserve or enhance. (The Planning
Listed Building and Conservation Areas) Act
1990).

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UNESCO Main Institutions
• UNESCO World Heritage Committee : The UNESCO World Heritage Committee
decides whether sites will be registered on the World Heritage List. It meets once a year and holds
strictly to the criteria stipulated in the Convention. The Committee includes experts from 21 of the
countries who have signed the convention, and its members are elected by these signing members.
The International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and the World Conservation Union
(previously IUCN) support the Committee.

• ICOMOS - The International Council on Monuments and Sites :


ICOMOS is the international non-governmental organization acting for the protection and
maintenance of historic buildings and zones, as well as the preservation of historic cultural heritage.
ICOMOS takes part in the work of the World Heritage Committee and the fulfillment of the
UNESCO World Heritage Convention in an advisory and assessment capacity. National committees
already exist in more than 120 countries, and ICOMOS also has more than 25 international scientific
committees.
ICOMOS supports the World Heritage Committee in the selection of cultural treasures to be
included on the World Heritage List.

• IUCN - the World Conservation Union : Supports the World Heritage Committee in
the selection of natural treasures to be included on the World Heritage List.

• ICCROM : International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and


Restoration of Cultural Property - was established in Rome in 1959. It occupies a
unique position in being the only institution with a worldwide mandate to promote the conservation
of both movable and immovable heritage in all its forms. It currently comprises over 100 Member
States, as well as 103 associate members from among the world's leading conservation institutions.
ICCROM aims at improving the quality of conservation as well as raising people's awareness of it in
all walks of life, schoolchildren and politicians alike.
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Aspects of Architectural conservation – Cultural and Socioeconomic
Aspects
2- ASPECTS OFARCHITECTURAL CONSERVATION

• There are many aspects that play a role in the


initiation and evolution of conservation
strategies. Conservation strategies should be
guided by aspects appropriate to their context
(No two places are likely to sort out their
strategies in the same way).
– CULTURAL ASPECTS
– SOCIO-ECONOMIC ASPECTS
– TECHNICAL ASPECTS
– LEGAL ASPECTS
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3- CULTURAL ASPECTS
• Piero Gazzola : “ the operation must not be
simply skin deep but be social and cultural
as well “ .

• Cultural Identity ??

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3- CULTURAL ASPECTS (cont.)
• The importance of keeping our built heritage is as
a tool to keep our cultural identity .

• Aga Khan: “ I am not speaking here for factors


such as climatic, physical environment or
availability of land , I am looking for something
much harder to define, it is an evocation partly of
our faith, partly of our culture, partly of our
history and partly of our aspiration “ .

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4- SOCIO-ECONOMIC ASPECTS
• Social problems affecting historic buildings:
– Rapid urban growth.
– Current neglect of heritage.
– Lack of local participation.
– Loss of traditional skills.
– Depopulation of historic areas.
• Piero Gazzola “ recent studies has shown
that if people leave it is largely because
planners and authorities have not taken
needed measures “ .
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4- SOCIO-ECONOMIC ASPECTS
• The profitability of conservation :
– Non monetary benefits.
– Cost benefit analysis.
– Adaptive reuse of old buildings especially for
commercial uses.

- Funding methods :
- Public funds,
- Local authorities funds,
- Grant making trusts ,
- Voluntary organizations,
- Owners and occupiers,
- Tourist boards,
- International aid,
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- …etc.

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