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We are thrilled to announce the release of Connecting Heritage: Sharing the Heritage Perspective Across Different Domains, a monograph prepared within the framework of the YADES Project. This publication captures the insights and interdisciplinary approaches shared at the 3rd YADES Conference and Summer School, held in Milan, Italy, in May 2023. Under the expert guidance of editors Julia Nerantzia Tzortzi (Georgi) and Maria Stella Lux, this monograph explores the crucial intersection of cultural heritage across domains like architecture, urban planning, and environmental adaptation. By emphasizing topics such as climate resilience, historic urban centers, and sustainable urban planning. This monograph presents innovative strategies and methodologies to bridge theory and practice, with the goal of preserving our shared cultural heritage. Special thanks to all contributors who made this endeavour possible. We look forward to seeing how these ideas inspire and impact the future of heritage conservation and urban resilience. 👉 https://lnkd.in/dmpaimXU #YADESProject #ConnectingHeritage #CulturalHeritage #UrbanPlanning #Sustainability #HeritageConservation #ClimateAdaptation

Reflecting on my architectural master's thesis, which explored the integration of cultural heritage sites into modern urban cities. The project centered on the transformation of the ancient city of Skupi, envisioning it as both a cohesive archaeological site and a contemporary hub, drawing inspiration from Roman typologies while prioritizing long-term adaptability. Years later, the relevance of this topic persists, as current urban plans propose future developments in these zones, often overlooking the nearby ancient site. A link between the old and the new is still nowhere to be found.

Part of the heritage conservation initiative is the recording of the heritage values of the structures and the role they played for the communities, but also the communication of the findings back to those communities and the wider public. In the following link you can see a teaser video of the short documentary that was produced in 2022 by my Master students of the Departmental Program of Conservation and Restoration of Historic Buildings and Structures, of the University of Cyprus. Heartfelt congratulations are extended to the (now graduated-)students, that surpassed the expectations of the program and engaged in new technologies of communication. ------------------------------------------------------------------ The Melkonian Educational Institute is located approximately three kilometers south of the walled city of Nicosia, in the Municipality of Aglantzia. The complex was built right after the Armenian Genoside (1915-1920) in order to host and educate Armenian orphans from around the world. This documentary deals with the contribution of the Melkonian Educational Institute, both to the Armenian community, but also to the Cypriot society. The Institute reflects a series of values, such as historical, architectural, aesthetic, technological and cultural, which contributed to its declaration as a listed building. This declaration, however, has not been enough for its protection and reuse. Almost 100 years after its construction, the building is currently abandoned in a bad state, while its future is uncertain. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Research, interviews, filming and editing by: Maria Achilleos, Michalis Theodoulides, Savvina Hadjipanteli, Evdokia Koiliari.

“Liquid Territory: Lisbon, the «metapolis» of the Tagus” Here is a glimpse into my latest study completed in January this year, my Master's dissertation, titled as above, completed after a rigorous investigation seeking to embrace the complexity of the Tagus estuary, finding its reasons, its deepest roots. «The history of cities and architecture is often treated as a matter of dry land. When the territory is coastal, the ocean is seen as a border and the coastline as a limit to the unknown.» This statement by André Tavares, architect and researcher from Porto, was the trigger to a dense investigation about an evidence - the centrality of the Tagus river among ancestral urban spaces - based on my experience of quotidian journeys across banks, north and south, along the middle course of the Tagus estuary, named Mar da Palha. The research of this triangular relation over Mar da Palha - Lisboa, Almada, and Barreiro - paved a path to a new reading of the vast Lisbon territory. By analyzing historical narratives from the water point of view, the water is no longer a limit, it´s a continuation of the space we inhabit. The estuary becomes the center of an extensive, heterogeneous, polynuclear and connected territory - a «METAPOLIS»*. *The theory of «metapolis» was developed by the French urbanist and sociologist François Ascher, publishing his inescapable work in 1995 "Metapolis: Ou l’avenir des ville”, where he claims «metapolis» as the continuation of the metropolis phenomenon, led by the high development of mobility - such as transportation, storaging, and the internet - calling it the “Third Urban Revolution”, which is strongly shaping society into «hipertext» sociaty: so diluted and accelerated that cities as we known might no longer can keep up, demanding a severe transformation.

Why does the Leaning Tower of Pisa incline? Its lean is more than a quirk; it is a lesson in engineering and historic preservation. Because it was built on soft soils of clay and sand, it began to lean soon after its construction in 1173. But how did it stay upright? Learn about its history with our infographic. Historic places like this are more than an architectural symbol; they are a testament to human perseverance and the importance of preserving our cultural heritage. #TorreDePisa #Engineering #HistoricalConservation #Intecsa

📢, Let's dive deep into the wonders of the BLK360G2! 🌟 What are the specific advantages of using the Leica BLK360 G2 for architectural and heritage preservation projects? #BLK360G2 #G2Survey

António Salvador Ricardo da Costa, a researcher at CiTUA - Territory, Urbanism, and Architecture, and Rita Castel' Branco, PhD student at CiTUA, published a paper in the journal Cities. The main aim of their paper, titled "From maximum urban porosity to city's disaggregation: Evidence from the Portuguese case", is to contribute to the resettling of porosity in its various dimensions. In pursuit of this goal, it questions the circumstances responsible for the decline of porosity in urban settings and examines how that erosion is visible. Click on the link below to learn more. https://lnkd.in/dDnJAshs #wearetecnico #citua

Image left: Sunrise over Cerro Colorado, observed from the top of the pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan, Mexico March 22 1993 Image Right: Sunrise over the central tower of Angkor Wat March 21st 1992 From my Harvard GSD Masters program research with @schumacher.patrik Studying the semiology of ancient sacred architecture

EXHIBITION Plant-based constructions What can material supply chains of a post-fossil construction industry look like and what role can cultivated plants play in this? These questions were explored by the studio Planting Buildings. Housing the Ecoregion, which was led by the Material Cultures group of architects at ETH Zurich in the autumn semester of 2023. Based on typical cultivated plants from various European ecoregions, housing systems were designed that move between conservation, cultivation and construction and can become part of the specific cultural landscape. At the centre of this exhibition, curated by the ETH Materials Hub, are eight 1:1 scale mock-ups that bring together the studio's basic research, material experiments and constructive studies.