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U.8 Cultural Heritage

What’s  Heritage?

Heritage + Culture = Cultural Heritage

_Heritage: set of assets acquired by inheritance (family, state, municipal assets, etc…)

_Culture: set of lifestyle, customs, knowledge and degree of artistic, scientific, industrial development, in an epoch, social group, etc…

Cultural Heritage -> implies the identity of a subject

set of assets (tangible/intabible) that have to do with the culture of a people, nation, city, society, etc…

Why preserving Heritage?

It’s essential trying to preserve Heritage in order to make sure we don’t lose our identity. Because yes, our cultural heritage is a great part of our identity.

What we have to preserve?

Regarding buildings, we have to make sure we preserve the matter, the construction techniques, the shapes and dimensions, colours, materials, textures, the character and the environment

How to preserve?

  • Legislative instruments [indirect]:

Protecting / Inventorying / Cataloguing

  • Actions of interventions [direct]:

Preservation / Maintenance / Repairing / Consolidation / Renovation / Adaptation / Reconstruction / Anastylosis / Restoration