An application of multicriteria decision making to built heritage. The redevelopment of Venice Arsenale

Abstract

The paper presents a multiple criteria model for the evaluation of the sustainability of projects for the economic reuse of historical buildings in Venice. The model utilizes the relevant parameters for the appraisal of sustainability, aggregated into three macro-indicators: intrinsic sustainability, context sustainability and economic-financial feasibility. The model has been calibrated by a panel of experts and tested on two reuse hypothesis of the Old Arsenal in Venice.

Evaluation of the Criteria for Selecting Proposed Variants of Utility Functions in the Adaptation of Historic Regional Architecture

“…As a multi-criteria analysis tool, they used one of the structural modeling methods, the ANP (Analytic Network Process) method. Breil, Giove and Rosato [16] and Giove, Rosato and Breil [17] used the "Choquet" integral for a multi-criteria analysis of the selection of a new utility function for the Venetian Arsenal building in Italy. An interesting approach to solving the discussed decision problem was proposed by Ferretti et al [18], who examined the possibility of using the multi-attribute value theory (MAVT) in the analysis of the preferences of historical objects in Turin to perform a specific utility function.…”

Effective preservation decision strategies

“…There are many models for such decision making, including AHP (Saaty 1980), multi attribute utility theory (MAUT; Edwards and Winterfeldt 1987), multi-criteria decision analysis (Giove et al 2010), Bayesian reasoning (Darwiche 2009) cost-benefit analysis (Cassar 1998) and these are widely respected and utilised. Given the diversity of analytical decision making techniques this paper focusses on decisions for risk management to examine the application of analytic-deliberative decision making in a conservation context.…”

Decision support criteria and the development of a decision support tool for the selection of conservation materials for the built cultural heritage

“…The preservation of stone heritage is a delicate and complex challenge. Multiple variables have to be taken into account to identify the problems, define the necessary conservation actions to select the materials and procedures to be used (Giove et al, 2011;Sierra-Fernandez et al, 2017). Many national and international organizations take care of the maintenance and preservation of cultural heritage to protect it for subsequent generations.…”