TC301 Historic Sites

By considering that each monuments is a "unicum" and taking into account the concept of "integrity" it is rather difficult to apply approaches based on guidelines to the preservation of monuments. Therefore the effort is devoted to

• framing of the special requirements and constraints to be considered in any rehabilitation intervention on Monuments in order to preserve their of cultural and historical integrity;
• geotechnical methodologies suitable for the interventions on Monuments and Historic sites.

The Second Kerisel Special Lecture was successfully devivered by prof. Carlo Viggiani at the 2017 Seoul ICSMGE.

We recently published a volume on Historic Towers.

In addition, we recognized that one of the most important problems facing modern civilization is the conservation of historic sites, i.e. the diffuse heritage at the scale of cities or even more big cities.  Here again it is difficult to set guidelines or recommendations, but it is possible to collect case records showing the nature of problems arising from requirements of future development and the preservation of historic sites. Some important examples could be provided by the construction of underground transportation lines. Other are related to subsidence, both natural or induced by human activities. Diffuse cultural heritage has been recently lost during earthquakes events and slope stability poses special problems to the preservation of historic sites. One of the tasks of the next term could then be the publication of a third volume (after the one of 2013 on Geotechnics and Heritage and the one of 2017 on Historic Towers) dedicated to the problem of preservation at a larger scale.

No special links have been yet established, by considering the peculiarity of this topic.