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Abstract. Often, when we choose buildings to be categorized as heritage, it is the building as a ... more Abstract. Often, when we choose buildings to be categorized as heritage, it is the building as a whole that calls for protection and not only some specific detail that is worth preserving. In this case, the values of the building not only relate to the tan-‐ gible, physical material but also to the in-‐between of the materials. This is what we identify as atmosphere, an enveloping phenomenon that surrounds and affects our sensuous system and well-‐being when we approach, enter, stay or move in a build-‐ ing. When we leave the building again we carry this atmospheric multi-‐sensory experience with us without adequate methods to describe and document it. In this paper I will introduce both new and traditional approaches to document the archi-‐ tectural heritage with the final conclusion to describe both tangible and intangible values, it requires an objective and geometrical approach as well as a subjective and phenomenological approach.
Building documentation in a new perspectiveBy Nina Ventzel RiisThe article discusses the field of... more Building documentation in a new perspectiveBy Nina Ventzel RiisThe article discusses the field of Architectural records and documentations and what efforts should be done to optimize the quality of future documentations. Through the last approximately 300 years we have had the same aim when recording the architectural heritage. We work hard to make the perfect drawing and in recent years digital technology has helped us to reach our goals with more and more details in less time. But who says that the perfect drawing is the only true product of a thorough building inventory? The drawing has many advantages but it cannot contain all possible information. There is a growing interest in the fact that atmosphere is an important part of the architectural heritage, but nevertheless it is never to find in any of our architectural records. Why? Is it because it does not belong in an objective document qua the intangible and, some would say, impossible form it has? Or is it because we have no...
Abstract. Often, when we choose buildings to be categorized as heritage, it is the building as a ... more Abstract. Often, when we choose buildings to be categorized as heritage, it is the building as a whole that calls for protection and not only some specific detail that is worth preserving. In this case, the values of the building not only relate to the tan-‐ gible, physical material but also to the in-‐between of the materials. This is what we identify as atmosphere, an enveloping phenomenon that surrounds and affects our sensuous system and well-‐being when we approach, enter, stay or move in a build-‐ ing. When we leave the building again we carry this atmospheric multi-‐sensory experience with us without adequate methods to describe and document it. In this paper I will introduce both new and traditional approaches to document the archi-‐ tectural heritage with the final conclusion to describe both tangible and intangible values, it requires an objective and geometrical approach as well as a subjective and phenomenological approach.
Building documentation in a new perspectiveBy Nina Ventzel RiisThe article discusses the field of... more Building documentation in a new perspectiveBy Nina Ventzel RiisThe article discusses the field of Architectural records and documentations and what efforts should be done to optimize the quality of future documentations. Through the last approximately 300 years we have had the same aim when recording the architectural heritage. We work hard to make the perfect drawing and in recent years digital technology has helped us to reach our goals with more and more details in less time. But who says that the perfect drawing is the only true product of a thorough building inventory? The drawing has many advantages but it cannot contain all possible information. There is a growing interest in the fact that atmosphere is an important part of the architectural heritage, but nevertheless it is never to find in any of our architectural records. Why? Is it because it does not belong in an objective document qua the intangible and, some would say, impossible form it has? Or is it because we have no...