heritage

1. Architectural
Heritage
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2. An architectural heritage can be
interpreted as an “artifact”, where its
elements are witnesses of the cultures,
actors, and of events occurred during the life
of the building. [UNESCO]
Architectural
Heritage

3. The architectural heritage
includes buildings and
structures, their contents and
settings and designed
landscapes and demesnes
which are of artistic, technical,
social scientific and cultural
interest.
The architectural heritage also includes street
furniture, statuary, paving, and structures
associates with the industrial heritage and
vernacular heritage. Architectural heritage
generally applies to structures, buildings,
streetscapes.
ARCHITECTURAL
HERITAGE

4. Types of Impacts Potential
impacts on the baseline
architectural heritage environment
can be classified in three
categories:
• Direct physical impacts;
• Indirect physical impacts; and
Environmental Impact
• Visual impacts or impacts on setting
or surroundings of the architectural
heritage.

5. Direct physical impacts
: are impacts resulting from the
design of the Proposed Scheme.
Typically, these activities are
related to construction works, and
in this case, include the removal
or alteration of features including
property boundaries and items of
street furniture. Indirect physical impacts
: describe processes, triggered by
development activity, that lead to the
degradation of architectural heritage assets, and
include the potential for damage of sensitive
fabric inside or on the Proposed Scheme
boundary. Other environmental factors such as
noise, light or air quality can be relevant in some
cases.
Impacts on
architectural
heritage

6. Visual impacts or impacts:
on the setting of architectural heritage
sites are associated with changes to the
character of the landscape that arise from the
insertion of the Proposed Scheme into the
existing context in such a way that it affects
(positively or negatively) the heritage
significance of the architectural heritage site.
Such impacts may be encountered at all stages
in the life cycle of a development, but they are
only likely to be considered significant during
the Operational Phase of the Proposed
Scheme.

7. Criteria to Inform the Assessment of Sensitivity of Architectural
Heritage Sites
High
Sensitivity
• World Heritage Sites
(including Nominated
Sites).
• National Monuments in
the State’s ownership or
guardianship
• National Monuments
subject to preservation
orders or Temporary
preservation orders
Recorded Monuments which based on one
or more of the characteristics of Existing
Status, Condition / Preservation,
Documentation / Historical Significance,
Group Value, Rarity, Visibility in the
Landscape, Fragility / Vulnerability and
Amenity Value; are in the professional
judgement of the architectural heritage
specialist of International or National
Importance.

8. Medium
Sensitivity Previously unrecorded architectural heritage sites which
based on their Architectural, Historical, Archaeological,
Artistic, Cultural, Scientific, Social or Technical interest in the
professional judgement of the architectural heritage
specialist make a significant contribution to the architectural
heritage of local area in which they are located and which
retain much of their historic fabric and character.

9. Low sensitivity
Previously unrecorded architectural heritage sites which based on
their Architectural, Historical, Archaeological, Artistic, Cultural, Scientific,
Social or Technical interest in the professional judgement of the
architectural heritage specialist, make a contribution to the architectural
heritage of local area in which they are located. Designed landscapes with
limited artistic, historic, horticultural, architectural, archaeological, scenic
interest.

10. Negligible
Previously unrecorded
architectural heritage sites or
designed landscapes with limited
Architectural,
Historical,
horticultural,
Archaeological,
Artistic,
Cultural,
Scientific,
Social or
Technical or scenic interest or
where their heritage interest has
been significantly compromised.

11. Architectural heritage and conservation
Similar to the studies by Maeer , Irons , Throsby , and Mason , it can be concluded that
only economically evaluating the historic buildings for conservation is insufficient. Thus,
non-economic aspects should also be considered in finding and identifying the values
influencing the conservation process.
In line with the studies by Hubbard , Lamprakos , and Karlstrom , it can be said that the
meaning, concept, and daily life in the buildings makes them valuable.

12. The conservation of the architectural heritage can be investigated and
analyzed at three levels:
people,
experts,
and
governments,
The holistic conservation of the architectural heritage can be achieved
only by the joint cooperation among all the three levels. At the level of
experts, the most important step in the conservation process of the
architectural heritage is identifying and prioritizing the values in the
historic building candidate for conservation so as to obtain a complete
understanding regarding what needs to be conserved.