29 research outputs found

    The Concept of “Sala de Fabrica”: On-Site Museums to Raise Awareness of Cultural Heritage After a Restoration Project

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    A conservation process usually generates new knowledge and an enormous amount of documentation during the inception and implementation of the project: the information collected from archives and other institutions; the information provided by the preliminary studies carried out prior to the intervention; the data provided in the field during the works and at the end of the process; and the final set of documentation delivered to the institution responsible for the maintenance and management of the monument. The challenge for conservation professionals and cultural heritage managers throughout this process once the works are over is to achieve and transmit this information to the public and specialists in order to raise awareness for better conservation of our built heritage. During the last few years, one of the actions that the Caja Madrid Foundation has activated with its restoration projects has been the opening of permanent on site museums or “Salas de Fábrica”, a place on site to understand the restoration works, to exhibit the remains that have being retrieved during the project and to permit the public to better understand the historical and artistic values of architectural and archaeological heritage as well as the importance of preserving our cultural legacy for the future

    The Concept of “Sala de Fabrica”: On-Site Museums to Raise Awareness of Cultural Heritage After a Restoration Project

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    A conservation process usually generates new knowledge and an enormous amount of documentation during the inception and implementation of the project: the information collected from archives and other institutions; the information provided by the preliminary studies carried out prior to the intervention; the data provided in the field during the works and at the end of the process; and the final set of documentation delivered to the institution responsible for the maintenance and management of the monument. The challenge for conservation professionals and cultural heritage managers throughout this process once the works are over is to achieve and transmit this information to the public and specialists in order to raise awareness for better conservation of our built heritage. During the last few years, one of the actions that the Caja Madrid Foundation has activated with its restoration projects has been the opening of permanent on site museums or “Salas de Fábrica”, a place on site to understand the restoration works, to exhibit the remains that have being retrieved during the project and to permit the public to better understand the historical and artistic values of architectural and archaeological heritage as well as the importance of preserving our cultural legacy for the future

    The church of San Pablo (Valladolid, Spain). The selection of the recording techniques: appropriateness, suitability and effectiveness for the documentation of a cultural heritage project

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    After almost five years of studies and works carried out to restore the façade of San Pablo in Valladolid (Spain), this paper aims at promoting a critical evaluation of these works in order to analyze the selection of the recording techniques used before, during and immediately after the development of the preliminary studies and the conservation works. During the restoration process the survey was continuously implemented, collecting new data and using different techniques in order to provide the kind of information requested by a multidisciplinary team of professionals with completely different needs. At the same time this project has had the exceptional feature of exposing to the public the development of the conservation works in real time through a lift platform which entailed the obligation of informing everyday through effective and understandable means about how and where the works were being carried out at the façade. In these terms, this paper will try to bring the attention to the difficulties found in choosing the most suitable, effective and appropriate recording technique for different and specific conservation and communication purposes, searching for a good relation between accuracy, cost, time and efficiency within the whole cultural project

    Sex difference and intra-operative tidal volume: Insights from the LAS VEGAS study

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    BACKGROUND: One key element of lung-protective ventilation is the use of a low tidal volume (VT). A sex difference in use of low tidal volume ventilation (LTVV) has been described in critically ill ICU patients.OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to determine whether a sex difference in use of LTVV also exists in operating room patients, and if present what factors drive this difference.DESIGN, PATIENTS AND SETTING: This is a posthoc analysis of LAS VEGAS, a 1-week worldwide observational study in adults requiring intra-operative ventilation during general anaesthesia for surgery in 146 hospitals in 29 countries.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Women and men were compared with respect to use of LTVV, defined as VT of 8 ml kg-1 or less predicted bodyweight (PBW). A VT was deemed 'default' if the set VT was a round number. A mediation analysis assessed which factors may explain the sex difference in use of LTVV during intra-operative ventilation.RESULTS: This analysis includes 9864 patients, of whom 5425 (55%) were women. A default VT was often set, both in women and men; mode VT was 500 ml. Median [IQR] VT was higher in women than in men (8.6 [7.7 to 9.6] vs. 7.6 [6.8 to 8.4] ml kg-1 PBW, P < 0.001). Compared with men, women were twice as likely not to receive LTVV [68.8 vs. 36.0%; relative risk ratio 2.1 (95% CI 1.9 to 2.1), P < 0.001]. In the mediation analysis, patients' height and actual body weight (ABW) explained 81 and 18% of the sex difference in use of LTVV, respectively; it was not explained by the use of a default VT.CONCLUSION: In this worldwide cohort of patients receiving intra-operative ventilation during general anaesthesia for surgery, women received a higher VT than men during intra-operative ventilation. The risk for a female not to receive LTVV during surgery was double that of males. Height and ABW were the two mediators of the sex difference in use of LTVV.TRIAL REGISTRATION: The study was registered at Clinicaltrials.gov, NCT01601223

    Training on Documentation in Architectural Heritage: The Experience of ARIS and CLADIC Courses

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    Following the idea that “better than to give a fish to someone who is hungry is to train him how to fish by himself”, ICCROM [International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Conservation of Cultural Property] has promoted the International Advanced Course titled “Architectural Records, Inventories and Information Systems for Conservation” that was held in Rome during 2003 and has had a second edition in collaboration with The Getty Conservation Institute in 2005. Following the experience of ARIS Course, the Instituto del Patrimonio Histórico Español in collaboration with the Escuela de Estudios Árabes of Granada promoted a similar course named CLADIC addressed to Latin-American professionals engaged with the conservation and documentation issues in their countries. These courses are mainly based on the use of accessible tools of low cost and simple handle and have permitted by now the training of almost 40 people from over 30 different countries for recording cultural heritage and the increase of their awareness on the importance and necessity of cultural heritage documentation processes to be promoted from their own institutions worldwide. In these courses several persons related to CIPA have been involved.Peer reviewe

    Traditional drawings versus new representation techniques

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    The publication of important works of documentation with photogrammetry of two monuments of the city of Seville serve as the basis for a reflection focusing on the traditional systems of architectural representation and their possible substitution by new techniques based on three-dimensional digital models obtained since the advent of laser scanners. Taking into account that CIPA has concerned itself more, in these last few years, with technological advances and their adaptation to applications in the field of conservation of the heritage than with adequately following the real applications that in practice are made with such advances, we suggest the advisability of evaluating, if only provisionally, the application and utility of the new arising methods.Peer reviewe

    The View from Above. Overview and Comparison of Low Cost Aerial Photographic Techniques

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    Work presented at the XXIII CIPA Symposium held in Prague, Czech Republic - 12/16 September 2011, more information at http://cipa.icomos.org/index.php?id=69.[EN] The view from above a structure, archaeological site or artwork gives conservators a unique perspective and powerful tool with which to make informed decisions. Such images can be used to create site plans, to identify boundaries, to assist in monitoring and analysis and for planning interventions. This is not new; architects, landscape architects, archaeologists, engineers, and city planners have been using aerial images from various sources for many years1. However, obtaining such images today from airplanes or helicopters can be expensive, prohibited in many locations, and are often beyond the budgets for many small projects. In addition, satellite images are often not of sufficient resolution for smaller sites, can be costly or out of date, and are usually only available vertically. Fortunately, there are alternative methods, technologies and strategies for inexpensively obtaining the ‘view from above’2,3. Many of these alternative methods are not new and some are as old as photography itself4. But recent advances in low-cost, high resolution digital cameras, higher capacity memory chips, low cost radio control systems and onboard camera and post processing software have made these techniques more accessible, affordable and efficient. These techniques are currently being investigated and most have been tested, used and taught on a variety of sites including land art, archaeological sites, mosaics, vertical murals, and complex roof structures. Simplicity, reliability and cost were key factors in the team’s investigation and testing. It was also important for the team to investigate across techniques to compare and contrast to understand the advantages and disadvantages. The scope of this paper is to give an overview, presentation and comparison, with case studies, of these techniques and platforms – poles, balloons, kites, multicopters and fixed and flexible wing remote controlled aircraft.Peer reviewe

    El concepto de espacio en la arquitectura Andalusí: un análisis perceptivo a través de la infografía

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    Tesis Univ. Granada. Departamento de Expresión Gráfica, Arquitectónica y en la Ingeniería. Leída el 11 de octubre de 200
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