Review of preventive conservation in museum buildings

Lucchi, Elena

doi:10.1016/j.culher.2017.09.003

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“…Second, this study mainly focuses on the spatial organization of defensive function since it has been overlooked in past studies. Our future work will combine these spatial-organization and architecture-level defensive features for a better evaluation on typology integrity and element integrity, as well as discussing the protection technology and environmental monitoring system [8] inside and surrounding the Diaolou dwellings, ensuring the delineated protection scopes are technologically feasible and environmentally friendly. Third, more attention should be paid to the non-public defensive areas without the defense of Genglous, but the presence of other types of Diaolous.…”

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“…Among them, the preservation of cultural heritage has been widely identified as a key to sustain cultural development [5]. Cultural heritage preserves the past cultural landscape to the present and conserves them to the future, thus fostering the sustainable development of civilizations, knowledge and social norms [6][7][8]. The conservation of cultural heritage is as essential to cultural sustainability as the protection of ecological resources is to environmental sustainability [7,9].…”

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Where to Preserve? Evaluating the Integrity Principle for Delineating Protection Scopes of Kaiping Diaolou and Villages

Yin

Zhang

et al. 2019

Sustainability

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While establishing where to preserve in a world heritage site is critical for heritage protection, management and cultural sustainability, the approach to delineating protection scopes under the integrity principle remains less discussed in literature. This study explores a quantitative approach to evaluating the preservation scopes of the Kaiping Diaolou and Villages (KDVs), a world culture heritage in south China. Diaolous are multiple-story tower dwellings, originally built for defense purposes in the villages of Kaiping, with mixed Chinese and Western architectural styles. We investigate 1629 Diaolous with varying architectural and locational attributes and defensive functions for resisting invasion. We use a GIS-based analysis to identify the boundaries of defensive regions and then categorize them into four types, relying on principal component and clustering analysis. Results suggest that current protection scopes may overlook the spatial organization of Diaolous as a defensive system, failing to consider the cultural value of typology and boundary integrity. The delineation of protection scopes thus need to emphasize functional distribution and organization of historical buildings along with their architectural value.

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Where to Preserve? Evaluating the Integrity Principle for Delineating Protection Scopes of Kaiping Diaolou and Villages

Yin

Zhang

et al. 2019

Sustainability

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“…29/05/2012 n. 24-3914) which introduced the methodology called Confidential Facility Report (Filippi et al, 2010) in which drawings, charts and images are used to describe structures, security measures, technical systems, etc., with particular attention to the control of microclimate and environmental parameters (relative humidity, temperature, lighting and air quality). Many studies concern the microclimatic control of Museums and their collections (see Lucchi, 2018), using in some cases BIM (Bonora et al, 2018). It is evident that much of the technical information required for the drafting of the above-mentioned documents or useful for planning the necessary interventions to achieve the missing objectives is contained or can be managed with BIM.…”

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Bim for Museums: An Integrated Approach From the Building to the Collections

Tucci¹,

Betti²,

Conti³

et al. 2019

Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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The paper discusses the first outcomes of an ongoing research activity aimed at developing a general BIM-based methodology for the organization and the management of the information needed for maintenance and safety assessment of museums. The Galleria dell'Accademia di Firenze (Florence, Italy) which has a very complex spatial organisation as a result of transformations occurred over the centuries, has been considered as an illustrative application of the proposed methodology. One of the specific elements which characterize museums, compared to other buildings, is the issue of the relationship between the building itself and the artworks there contained. A specific element of the research is consequently the need not to limit the attention to only the building (i.e. the envelope), but to consider within the BIM also the presence of the art collections. Starting from a recent laser scanner survey, a BIM has been created and a semi-automatic workflow has been investigated to obtain a FE (Finite Element) model to be employed for static and dynamic structural analysis purposes. Currently, since the scans inevitably included the artworks, a test is underway to add in the BIM of the museum also its collections (M-BIM). Each element can be inserted as a BIM object including its geometric representation and physical data (dimensions, materials, weight…) and linked to different museum inventory and conservation databases for the museum management.

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“…Nowadays, energy control is of primary importance, for rational use of energy resources and a real economic and environmental sustainability of historic buildings management, as much as for the preservation and enhancement of their historical and architectural value. In the field of cultural heritage refurbishment and retrofitting, the lighting project has become really important as much as plant systems [1][2][3][4][5][6].…”

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“…LED lighting does not require high power, allows for the obtainment of quality light, important energy savings, quality of vision and perception, guaranteeing protection and preventive conservation. These last aspects can be obtained by modulating the luminous intensity (dimming), adjusting the luminous flux and the correlated colour temperature as well as the emission spectrum, parameterization of the illumination, rationalization of the use of light (e.g., Passive Infrared sensor, PIR, application) setting and/or recall of different and integrated lighting scenarios, setting of dynamic light/colour sequences, scheduling of choreographic events, optimization of electricity use [2,3,5,8]. All these functions are stored inside the electronic ballast, others, such as sequences and schedules, are managed by control units or software, where it is possible to adjust and customize light management, precisely from the perspective of the reuse/re-illumination strategies for historic buildings based on decision-making processes [23][24][25].…”

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Natural Lighting for Sustainability of Cultural Heritage Refurbishment

2019

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Our present research, starting from a previous study, aimed to define a methodological approach for sustainable lighting designs in a historical library, focusing on lighting quality, mainly obtained from the optimal use of natural light and its combination with the artificial one. A historical Florentine monastery, which is now a university library, was used as a pilot project. The proposed method forms an essential part of widening and deepening the recent study. Results have shown that this method will allow for adaptive lighting, based on the optimal control and use of natural light, historical–philological re-reading of the space, cultural heritage preventive protection and conservation, with the aim of building adaptive reuse, and it can be extended to similar cultural heritage cases, but also non-listed buildings and current designs. This research demonstrates how a correct natural lighting design can be a tool for sustainable refurbishment, guaranteeing cultural heritage conservation and preventive protection, and recovery of the historical, architectural and philological value of old and/or listed buildings, which have been converted to uses, often diametrically opposed to the original ones.

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Review of preventive conservation in museum buildings

Cited by 126 publications

References 16 publications

Where to Preserve? Evaluating the Integrity Principle for Delineating Protection Scopes of Kaiping Diaolou and Villages

Where to Preserve? Evaluating the Integrity Principle for Delineating Protection Scopes of Kaiping Diaolou and Villages

Bim for Museums: An Integrated Approach From the Building to the Collections

Natural Lighting for Sustainability of Cultural Heritage Refurbishment

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