ICOMOS Charter – Principles for the Analysis, Conservation and Structural Restoration of Architectural Heritage (2003)

Preface: The ICOMOS Charter – Principles fora the Analysis, Conservation and Structural Restoration of Architectural Heritage was adopted by the ICOMOS 14th General Assembly, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, in 2003.

Structures of architectural heritage, by their very nature and history (material and assembly), present a number of challenges in diagnosis and restoration that limit the application of modern legal codes and building standards. Recommendations are desirable and necessary to both ensure rational methods of analysis and repair methods appropriate to the cultural context.

These Recommendations are intended to be useful to all those involved in conservation and restoration problems, but cannot in anyway replace specific knowledge acquired from cultural and scientific texts.

The Recommendations presented in the complete document are in two sections: Principles, where the basic concepts of conservation are presented; Guidelines, where the rules and methodology that a designer should follow are discussed. Only the Principles have the status of an approved/ratified ICOMOS document.

Principles:

  • General criteria
  • Research and diagnosis
  • Remedial measures and controls

Guidelines:

  • General criteria
  • Acquisition of data: Information and Investigation
    • Generally
    • Historical, structural and architectural investigations
    • Survey of the structure
    • Field research and laboratory testing
    • Monitoring
  • The structural behaviour
    • General aspects
    • The structural scheme and damage
    • Material characteristics and decay processes
    • Actions on the structure and the materials
  • Diagnosis and safety evaluation
    • General aspects
    • Identification of the causes (Diagnosi)
    • Safety evaluation
    • The problem of safety evaluation
    • Historical analysis
    • Qualitative analysis
    • The analytic approach
    • The experimental approach
    • Decisions and explanatory report
  • Structural damage, materials decay and remedial measures
    • General aspects
    • Masonry building
    • Timber
    • Iron and steel
    • Reinforced concrete
Category
Principles
Date

2003

Promulgation

ICOMOS 14th General Assembly, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, in 2003.

Descriptions

  • Structures of architectural heritage, by their very nature and history (material and assembly), present a number of challenges in diagnosis and restoration that limit the application of modern legal codes and building standards.
  • Recommendations are desirable and necessary to both ensure rational methods of analysis and repair methods appropriate to the cultural context. These Recommendations are intended to be useful to all those involved in conservation and restoration problems, but cannot in anyway replace specific knowledge acquired from cultural and scientific texts.
  • It defines the principles where the basic concepts of conservation are presented, and the guidelines where the rules and methodology that a designer should follow are discussed.

Source

http://www.international.icomos.org/charters/structures_e.pdf

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