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G. Esser, J. Sima:
"Preservation, building survey and inventory, documentation and recording of historic architecture";
Vortrag: Vienna International Summer School Austrian Architectural Culture, Wien (eingeladen); 02.07.2012 - 20.07.2012.

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Vienna has an extensive stock of traditional architecture, including Roman remains, various highlights of medieval sacral architecture, a large number of Baroque palaces, and numerous privately owned "Biedermeier" and "Gründerzeit" residential homes that form the vast majority of houses within the city borders. Clearly, monument preservation has a long and lively tradition in a place like this. Austrian theoreticians like Alois Riegl (1858-1905) helped set up universal principles in monument protection. Based on specific legislation for ensembles of traditional residential areas, rehabilitated districts are in the meantime the most desirable addresses within the city borders. In the latest years, a boom of reshaping the roofs of the city for the more fashionable residential areas swept across town and led to the UNESCO memorandum ("Viennese" memorandum) in 2005 on contemporary architecture within a historical surrounding. As a result, a big part of the current building activities deal with this sector. For designing architects, it means a smart and vivid discussion between the demands of modern lifestyle and conservative building protection is needed.
The aim of the course is to introduce the participants to recent theoretical developments as well as the visible, built results. Thermal insulation of historical buildings at a sustainable level is for the moment the biggest challenge in the field of conservation. Nevertheless, building in historical context needs as a basis careful research from documentation; inventory of the design concepts for the rehabilitation is also necessary. As many of the lecturers are internationally leading experts on high-tech building survey and documentation through 3D laser scanning and 3D modelling, a major focus of this bloc will be on this topic, detailing what is already possible as well as what options the future may bring.

Content
- New architecture in a historical context from the designers´ perspective
- Special aspects of building preservation and architecture
- Challenge and experiment: Thermal insulation of historical buildings
- Recording and documentation of the architectural (world) heritage - methods and organisations
- Building survey and inventory - methods and instruments
- Conservation and reconstruction - archaeology and architecture

Baukultur, Kulturelles Erbe, Erhaltung, Denkmalpflege, Baudenkmalpflege, Architekturdokumentation