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A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Tourism, Culture, and Heritage".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 July 2022.
Special Issue Editors
Interests: heritage building; assessment; measurement; photogrammetry
Interests: architecture; heritage; drawing; historical images; landscape; city
Interests: heritage buildings survey; graphical analysis from architectural heritage; HGIS (Historical Geographic Information Systems); BIM and heritage; architectural heritage diffusion
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The concept heritage can be understood as legacy, patrimony, or the assets which survived to our days and must be conveyed to future generations. We should be committed to preserve this cultural wealth and therefore study it in depth through multidisciplinary research with the right approaches and methodologies. In order to enjoy and protect our Heritage in a sustainable way, with the appropriate means and at a reasonable cost, it is necessary to know, preserve or restore, and promote, both its material and intangible values. The adequate graphic documentation is crucial, as a mean for knowledge, to facilitate heritage sustainability in Architecture and Civil Engineering. A monument graphically documented in a suitable manner increases its probability to survive over time. In the worst scenario, when, unfortunately, the heritage has been destroyed, its memory can be preserved if there are images that facilitate its virtual recreation or material reconstruction. Therefore, in every case it is crucial to apprehend all kind of images possible along with their history, using the adequate techniques to obtain a precise corpus of graphic documentation. Thus, the scientific community is appealed in this call for papers so they can contribute with their manuscripts to this special issue of Sustainability titled “Architectural and Civil Engineering Heritage: Graphical Documentation for Research, Conservation and Diffusion”. All manuscripts adding relevant research in the field of graphic documentation (analog and/or digital) with a certain sustainable approach will be welcomed, as we believed essential to gather and assess in an organized way all relevant data shaping in a physical, historical and emotional way the Architectural and Civil Engineering legacy works.
In relation to these questions, some of the relevant subjects to be discussed in this special issue are indicated below, though some others related to the graphic documents of Architecture and Civil Engineering will also be considered.
- Graphic analysis of the Architecture and Civil Engineering legacy: conservation, restoration, intervention, dissemination...
- Images of Architecture and Civil Engineering works transformed or lost.
- Cartographies and historical plans in different scales: Areas, cities, floor plans, elevations, sections, details...
- Historical views (drawings, engravings, photographies...): Landscape, urban context, volumes and interior perspectives...
- Photogrammetry, Laser scans, RPAS (Remotely Piloted Aerial Systems)
- 3D Modeling, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality.
- GIS (Geographic Information Systems), HBIM (Heritage Building Information Modeling).
Prof. Dr. Juan Francisco Reinoso-Gordo
Prof. Dr. Antonio Gámiz-Gordo
Prof. Dr. Antonio José Gómez-Blanco Pontes
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- Architecture
- Civil Engineering
- Heritage
- Graphical Documentation
- Analog and Digital Drawings
- Diffusion
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Title: Methodology for Documentation and Sustainability of Cultural Heritage Landscapes - The Case of the Tajos De Alhama (Granada, Spain)
Authors: María del Carmen Vílchez-Lara*, Jorge Molinero-Sánchez, Concepción Rodríguez-Moreno and Antonio Gómez-Blanco
Affiliation: University of Granada
*Correspondence: [email protected]
Abstract: This research aims to start the path for the revitalization of peri-urban spaces with high landscape and cultural potential, dotted with a series of heritage landmarks that allude to the recent industrial, economic and cultural history of the region, currently semi-degraded or abandoned, as is the case of the impressive and steep miller landscape of the Tajos de Alhama de Granada. The application of an organized and structured method of work, documentation and diagnosis through the use of tools and graphic techniques of the 21st century, in addition to other sources of information, has offered extensive results that have been turned into a rigorous and systematic catalog. This catalog will serve as the basis for the promotion of integrated action plans for the recovery of this urban edge, with the triple objective of rehabilitation of buildings of architectural interest, rehabilitation of the surrounding public space and consolidation of the historic complex that make up the mills, the river, the landscape and the city. We conclude that the enhancement of the Cultural Heritage Landscape of the Tajos and the guidelines provided for the rehabilitation of its historic water mills, with possible compatible uses -tourist, cultural or administrative-, will favor the conservation and sustainable revitalization of this heritage site so exceptional.
Title: Digital Graphic Documentation and Sustainable Restoration of Architectural Heritage: The Medieval Royal Shipyards of Seville, Spain
Authors: Debenedictis, D.; Pagliuca, A.; Robador, M.D.
Affiliation: Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
Abstract: Interventions in the architectural heritage involve a series of preliminary studies, necessary to achieve a deep level of knowledge suitable to establish the hierarchy of values to safeguard and define the criteria for adequate and sustainable actions for its restoration. In the present work is exposed the methodology used with the aim of creating a unified record of the multitude of scattered information, collected and produced over several years of research, in view of a HBIM model of the Medieval Royal Shipyards of Seville. The previous studies carried out to understand the architecture of this majestic factory building with more than eight centuries, go through the classic graphic and historical descriptive sources to the most recent digital representation techniques such as: a three-dimensional model of the evolutionary phases, diagnosis and the representation of pathologies and construction systems by photogrammetric survey from point clouds, as well as graphic diagrams of the spatial configuration. The knowledge and registration of all these data, which is manifested mostly with the language of architectural drawing, not only constitute a means of control to carry out a sustainable restoration project of the building, but also the expressive process to preserve its historical memory and to save and disseminate all the unified information in anticipation of future maintenance interventions.
Title: Heritage, Drawing, and Sustainability: The Ancient Main Water Distribution Tank from Seville’s Real Alcázar (Spain)
Authors: Bandres-Mariscal, C.; Albardonedo, A.; Tabales, M.A.; Robador, MD.
Affiliation: Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
Abstract: The central supplying water system from Sevilla´s Real Alcázar was an aqueduct built in 1172, with a length of 20 kilometre approximately, recovering an existing Roman. This research shows about his access to the Alcázar, after discovering the main water distribution tank. In the XVI century, the tank constituted an efficient sluice-gate system that allows water distribution to the palaces or the garden and kitchen garden, according to needs.
In the absence of historical references and starting with archaeological precedents, the topographical study rejects the traditional hypothesis location in “Torre del Agua.” The hydraulic heights from the remains of the aqueduct had allowed to discover and confirm their precise location. Its operation is explains, and a hypothesis is create about its possible renovations.
As Tangible Cultural Heritage, the water distribution tank is an example of perdure materials, energy handling and construction efficiency because of its operation for more than four centuries. The graphic design made in 2D and modelled on 3D lets us guarantee the long-term sustainability of hydraulic infrastructure, facilitates his recuperation, interpretation, and give it deserved value. As environmental educational resource constitutes a magnificent example of hydraulic management, contributing a historical vision of lack water issue.
Title: Heritage Cataloguing in History: Conceptual and Graphical Foundations of Immovable Cultural Heritage Data Bases in the Case of Spain
Authors: Roberto F Alonso-Jiménez1, Mar Loren-Méndez 1, Daniel Pinzón-Ayala 1 and Francisco Ollero-Lobato 2
Affiliation: 1 Departamento de Historia, Teoría y Composición Arquitectónicas, Universidad de Sevilla;
2 Departamento de Geografía, Historia y Filosofía, Universidad Pablo de Olavide
Abstract: Cataloguing constitutes the main instrument for heritage assessment and management around the world, becoming central in heritage studies. In the context of the growing international protection since 20th century and the irruption and implementation of digital tools, Cultural Heritage Data Bases (CHDB) have emerged as the main system in accounting for and monitoring heritage. In the framework of culture preservation as driven force of sustainable development, the article aims to analyse the origins and development of CHDB in order to shine a critical light on the current situation and outline future challenges for systems of cataloguing heritage, with the growing relevance of its graphical documentation. In this context, an historical overview of the origin and development of the European inventories since the 18th century to the present is key to trace the development of catalogue systems and the impact of IT in this field. The study then focuses on Immovable Cultural Heritage Data Bases (ICHDB): with Spain as the case study, it develops an approach to the current panorama, with a special focus on the conceptual evolution of catalogues. In conclusion the ICHDB need to transcend both instrumental and institutional roles and, supported in new digital systems, become an interactive and flexible tool that respond to current needs and encourage heritage education, knowledge and reflection.