abstract   iran has many historic cities and villages with economic, historic and cultural values facing with many seismic faults. there have been no comprehensive studies about reducing the vulnerability of the historic villages, and the available documents describe the retrofitting experiments only about the single buildings.  lack of a comprehensive look at the subject leads to the loss of t...

Insect pests are responsible for substantial damage to museum objects, historic books and in buildings like palaces or historic houses. Different wood boring beetles (Anobium punctatum, Hylotrupes bajulus, Lyctus sp. or introduced species), the biscuit beetle (Stegobium paniceum), the cigarette beetle (Lasioderma serricorne), different Dermestides (Attagenus sp., Anthrenus sp., Dermestes sp., T...

Conservation of historic buildings requires comprehensive and correct information of buildings to be analyzed in conservation decision making process in a systematic and rational approach. Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are advantageous in such cases which can be defined as computer based systems for handling geographical and spatial data. GIS have the potential to support the conservat...

A method I' describS ror reconstructing decorative images concealed b livers of overcostings. The method employs • 'louparametric multivariate algorithm and. cellular—automaton construct to convert the nearinfrareil spectrum of a surisce into digit.l images of the surface Iaers. The technique h potentiall> applicable to the restoration of historic buildings "here aging previous restoration atte...

The historic buildings represent an important part of the built environment. The possibility to reuse spaces that represent the local cultural heritage plays an important role in maintaining the identity of a population and its traditions. The steps to be faced for smart renovation of historic buildings and recent constructions are not the same, as in the first case artistic and architectural c...

The enforcement of accessibility today has faced several difficulties, such as intervention in historic buildings that now house public services and cultural activities, such as town halls, museums and theaters and should allow access, on equal terms to all people. The paper presents the application of a method for evaluating the spatial accessibility conditions and their results. For this, we ...

The research optimizes the use of the dynamic modal analysis based on experimental data as a non-destructive approach in identifying the structural integrity of historic buildings. Currently dynamic modal analysis is widely used to global understand displacements of construction given their size and structure. This research proposes to simplify the ways in which to assess the structural conserv...