Abstract

The quest for improvement and upgrading of the historic urban environment through coexisting historical context and new context had introduced tension over the previous years. The resultant flows have jeopardized the harmonious layers of historical settings. The concept of conservation that provides the needed bridge between the forces in many cases implemented exhibits a no consideration of the three polarities that controls historic areas. The aftermath shows up in two ways. At one end is convergence and divergence at the other but the emphasis of this paper focuses on investigating what happens in historic urban environments when annex developments exceed historic limits? Historic Limit (HL) is the hidden benchmark and maximum point of the historic urban environment at which the forces produced by the two contexts coexist elastically. In order to answer the generated question, a literature review of the keywords that constitutes the topic is explored. The ideas of Warren John on ‘interaction’ and that of Getty Conservation Institute on ‘relationship’ that happens in the built above environment will buttress the argument. A model that represents the correlation of the two contexts is developed to simplify the overall intentions of the essay. Another technique is the selection of two composite annex cases to validate the targeted objectives. The article is concluded by recommending that conservation schemes in historic urban landscapes should adopt consensus design strategy for tackling context tension. As a sure way of sustainably welcoming the voices of the community in the process before implementation of the development.

Highlights

  • The Jet mindset for fastness in tastes/satisfaction passively restricts dwellers from experiencing the intuitive stimuli of their surroundings

  • At one end is convergence and divergence at the other but the emphasis of this paper focuses on investigating what happens in historic urban environments when annex developments exceed historic limits? Historic Limit (HL) is the hidden benchmark and maximum point of the historic urban environment at which the forces produced by the two contexts coexist elastically

  • The article is concluded by recommending that conservation schemes in historic urban landscapes should adopt consensus design strategy for tackling context tension

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Summary

Introduction

The Jet mindset (modern culture) for fastness in tastes/satisfaction passively restricts dwellers from experiencing the intuitive stimuli of their surroundings. Historic urban environment (HUE) possess the point of focus (centers) and the habitual cognitive attachment of people to a place as an essential sociocultural element. The challenging state of urban developments today tend to jeopardızed the harmonıous layers of HUE via conservatıon schemes of upgradıng. The paper addresses the pertinence as adding a new context (annex) to an existıng one. The premise provided from the scholars/International Charters constructively supports that HUE is the bedrock upon which all interventions/alterations process get executed. The pressure from spontaneous development produces uncertainty through divergence in the form of displacement of the vulnerable people and convergence at another end through improving the standard of living of the area

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