The Royal Palace of Ajuda, one the main Portuguese royal residences during 19th century, has a complex and long construction history, only recently completed, in 2021.Little is known about palace’s original 18th century project, designed by baroque architect Manuel Caetano de Sousa. However, contact 2022, archive, with two elevations Ajuda depicting language far removed from neoclassical that w...

The need for various approaches of conservation and restoration drives our attention to the different kinds of urban heritage. These differences can be understood in terms of different degrees of heritage values such as oldness, historical documentation, intentional remembrance and integrity. We can also consider that buildings are signaled as heritage as much as for the narratives in which the...

When Sennacherib's conquest of Lachish is considered, the vivid reliefs depicting that event which were found in the ruins of his palace at Nineveh immediately come to mind.' These are, however, simply pictorial representations; they do not include any verbal description of any significant length of the events depicted. For instance, the cuneiform label which accompanies one of the scenes says ...

Imagine being capable of storing/retrieving multi-media data from familiar things in the path to work: buildings, corners, trees or flowers... anything around you can be a "scaffold" to organize your personal data. This is an alternative to the intangible "cloud" based on the idea of superimposing virtual 3d "data containers" onto real space. We propose to design, prototype and study a format t...