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Actors and Objects of Heritage Preservation. The Singular and Dual Condition of Historical Architectural Archives
Salvatore Aprea, Barbara Galimberti
In a society that recognizes the urgency of safeguarding the environment and drastically limiting land transformations and energy-intensive activities like constructing new buildings, the protection of architectural and environmental heritage is no longer ...
2024Technology and Planning: The Invalides Train Station Project in Paris (1889-1902)
Designed by Just Lisch for the 1900 Exposition Universelle, the Invalides train station gave the French western railway company a more central terminus in Paris, right next to the exhibition pavilions and the river Seine. From 1893 onwards, the project was ...
2024Post-correction of Historical Text Transcripts with Large Language Models: An Exploratory Study
Frédéric Kaplan, Maud Ehrmann, Matteo Romanello, Sven-Nicolas Yoann Najem, Emanuela Boros
The quality of automatic transcription of heritage documents, whether from printed, manuscripts or audio sources, has a decisive impact on the ability to search and process historical texts. Although significant progress has been made in text recognition ( ...
The Association for Computational Linguistics2024Numerical Modeling of FRP-Strengthened Masonry Structures Using Equivalent Frame Models
Katrin Beyer, Francesco Vanin, Ivana Bozulic
The present study focuses on enhancing the seismic resistance of existing masonry structures. To that aim, the use of fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) strengthening serves to improve structural behaviour by attaching FRP strips to the masonry walls. Despite ...
Springer2024Preserving suspended structures with light façades (1960-1980).Architectural study and retrofitting proposals
Nowadays, the energy efficiency of the existing building stock is internationally accepted as a topical issue. Energy retrofitting is encouraged, improving the thermal performances of buildings, but often altering the historical image of our cities. Attent ...
EPFL2023Avalanche risks management as intangible cultural heritage
Florence Graezer Bideau, Chiara Maria Bortolotto
This paper tackles Avalanche Risks Management (ARM), nominated by Switzerland and Austria and inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2018. On the one hand, this nomination conventionally highlights how traditional em ...
2023Mes aktivizmit dhe herezisë. [Between Activism and Heresy]
This article analyzes the episode of the demolition of the historical National Theatre of Tirana in 2020, which will be replaced by a new building and by residential luxury housing towers. The text focuses on the dialectical relationship between the buildi ...
2023Mega-Event Reinforced Industrial Heritage Transformation: The making of public space between narratives and practices
Florence Graezer Bideau, Huishu Deng
For decades, hosting mega-events in the present place has been considered as a strategy to boost the future urban landscape. More recently, however, the re-use of the city fabric’s past heritage has become central rather than the increasing urbanisation of ...
2023Discovering perceived images of reused industrial heritage from user-generated photos: Three mega-event reinforced industrial heritage transformation cases
Cities are increasingly reusing industrial heritage as part of cultural and creative regeneration strategies. However, designers and decision-makers face the challenge of determining which features and elements of industrial heritage are more perceived and ...
2023Unlocking a multimodal archive of Southern Chinese martial arts through embodied cues
Sarah Irene Brutton Kenderdine, Yumeng Hou, Fadel Mamar Seydou
Purpose: Despite being an authentic carrier of various cultural practices, the human body is often underutilised to access the knowledge of human body. Digital inventions today have created new avenues to open up cultural data resources, yet mainly as appa ...
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