Abstract
It has been acknowledged that non-physical forms have a prominent role in the creating and maintenance of architectural heritage; therefore, it is vital to recognize these forms. Today, much attention has been focused on architectural topics such as sustainable architecture and utilizing passive energy. This has resulted in extensive developments in that field. However, the importance of concepts and values with crucial roles in representing the authenticity of a heritage should also be a matter of concern. Investigating these concepts could reveal a great deal about the vital role of non-physical form aspects of originality. Moreover, regarding the values, the subject of authenticity is the main emphasis of the global community in maintenance and restoration of historical places that can be interpreted according to different times, locations, conditions, and specifications. In order to achieve this goal, Athens Charter in 1931 started an international movement to prepare the required international documents. Subsequently, the International Center for Study, Care, and Restoration of Cultural Assets was founded by UNESCO. Later, in a statement that became known as Venice Charter, the Second International Congress of Architects and Specialists of Historic Buildings in 1964 determined the required solutions for restoration of historic monuments and sites. Nara Document on Authenticity (1994) introduced a widely accepted concept of the authenticity to the community of architects. The diversity and locality of values in the other charters with spiritual, cultural, social, economic, aesthetic, historical or scientific nature have also been considered (Bora 1996; St. Antonio 1996, the Charter of the architectural heritage of Europe Congress of Amsterdam 1975). On one hand, the former documents investigate the role of monitoring and controlling, and the preservation of cultural heritage’s treatment on the other hand. Some criteria are introduced in this study for both monitoring and the restoration of cultural heritage. Then, by separating qualitative and quantitative variables and weighting the criteria, the impacts of these two factors are examined for further discussion of the results.
Highlights
Regarding the values, authenticity is emphasized by global communities as one of the strategic categories and evaluation of preservation and restoration activities of historical sites
The available things are easier to be identified and whatever is beyond these values needs more time to be understood by the community; new understandings are required for future generations and using extrinsic features gain imitating aspects, and the past imitation leads to mockeries rather than gaining values, which is in contrast to the authenticity
Diverse values and abstract concepts created by different cultures and the re-interpretation by generations with continuities and changes indicates the fact that it has special authenticity in connection with peripheral systems, including environmental behaviors, structures and natural geographical, cultural structures, infrastructure, and human handmade humans that have evolved over generations and provide unique features that create the motif for the emergence of some of the considered concepts and systems
Summary
Authenticity is emphasized by global communities as one of the strategic categories and evaluation of preservation and restoration activities of historical sites. Authenticity was discussed in another document (1994 Nara Document publication) as a new concept in the preservation and restoration objectives and methods. Two main topics are discussed in this study, which are: Monitoring and controlling, as well as treatment on the preservation of the authenticity of the building and cultural heritage. Each of these two topics includes some main indices. 2) Due to the fact that body of work is exposed to continuous erosion and transformation concerning climatic and functional conditions, what indicators can be defined for the authenticity of building and cultural heritage?. We shall prove the hypothesis by separating qualitative and quantitative indicators, and defining qualitative indicators and weighting the quantitative indicators
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