Maremat & Me'mari-e Iran
Art University of Isfahan
1- University of Tehran , mh.talebian@ut.ac.ir
2- University of Tehran
2- University of Tehran
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One of the most important challenges ahead of architectural and urban conservation, is how to use the massive amount of information obtained at different levels and layers, in the decision-making process in order to provide the optimal proposal for priorities and design interventions. Due to the lack of a theoretical framework that can be efficient in relating and concluding the collected information, this article aims to look at how to apply the complex systems theory in this field. The starting point of this research refers to “Guidelines for Education and Training in the Conservation of Monuments, Ensembles and Sites” in ICOMOS’s General Assembly of the International Council on Monuments and Sites, held in Colombo, Sri Lanka in 1993. In the fifth item of the article 5 of these guidelines, the conservators are asked to understand and analyze the behavior of monuments, ensembles and sites as complex systems.This qualitative research that is considered as a basic-applied one, implements inductive approach in data collection through document review and library studies and after comparing the data analysis results with the Complex Systems Theory, introduces this theory and discuss how it can be used more widely in the field of architectural and urban conservation. Despite the fact that the implementation of this theory in the abovementioned field has a history, yet none of them have been directly under this title, and most of these researches are in the sciences related to the field of architectural and urban conservation through the presentation of mathematical models in decision-making. But its application in the process of architectural and urban conservation in general, and proposing a conceptual model on its basis for understanding and analyzing the behavior of a historical structure in particular, is quite a new thing. Explaining the layered view and also the observational levels of the subject, clarifying the key concepts of complex systems theory and introducing the anatomy of the conceptual model of architectural conservation are among the results of this research.
Article number: 159
Keywords: Complex Systems Theory, Holistic Approach, conceptual model, Architectural and Urban Conservation
Type of Study: Conceptual Paper |
Subject:
Maremat
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