This is a core course of the Modul Cultural Spaces
Architects will soon be increasingly confronted with the cultural heritage of individual regions. All over the world, the call for identity is getting louder and louder. In general, architects will be confronted with building and planning in the existing environment and the associated factors. Specifically for UNESCO World Heritage Sites, the UNESCO World Heritage Convention describes a framework for dealing with the values of sites, in which experts have dealt extensively with the value of the existing built environment. This course will focus on field research.
In the introductory lectures, the characteristics (attributes) that describe the Outstanding Universal Value of a site, which is necessary to nominate it for inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List, will be discussed. This will be followed by presentations on various methods from different disciplines that can be used to document these accordingly. Based on these presentations, it will be decided which objects, areas, features, etc. should be documented and in what way. The data should serve as a basis and support for the monitoring and management of the region.
In the practical part of the course, students will analyse the nomination dossier submitted for the region to be included on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Before the excursion, students will work out which details should be documented and how. This preliminary work is carried out in co-operation with the World Heritage Management Hallstatt-Dachstein/Salzkammergut and is embedded in the KLASCH Cultural Landscape Inventory Hallstatt-Dachstein/Salzkammergut project as a topic of research-led teaching. This provides the opportunity to get actively involved in an exciting topic and to help preserve the extraordinary universal values of the region in the future.
The result is a digital folder (compilation of all data on the Institute's server with a meaningful structure; e.g. images organised in thematic folders, plan material, texts, etc.), in which the data is compiled in a clear and comprehensible way so that it can also be made available for future research.
The result is a digital portfolio in which the data is compiled in a clear and comprehensible manner so that it can also be made available for future research.
