Methodological Advances in Heritage Accessibility: Application to the Residential Architecture of the Modern Movement

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5821/ace.19.55.12435

Keywords:

modern heritage, housing state, universal design, inclusive design

Abstract

Enabling universal accessibility to cultural assets is imperative for fostering a more just and egalitarian development. In line with this principle, this contribution outlines the intervention methodology for architectural heritage developed by the Andalusian Institute of Historical Heritage since its inception. This methodology has been re-examined to integrate universal accessibility considerations. This updated approach facilitates the identification of primary challenges associated with providing physical, sensory, or cognitive accessibility to built heritage, and to incorporate, from the proposal of action lines to be included in the intervention projects, the evaluation of the impact on cultural values. This proposal is formulated with a commitment to preserving heritage values, in full support of the social function of heritage, and ensuring that accessibility enhancements do not compromise the integrity of a heritage site. The application of this methodology is demonstrated in the context of 20th-century residential architecture, a heritage category that poses unique challenges. Special emphasis is placed on the Nuestra Señora del Carmen residential complex in Seville (1955-58), acknowledged for its cultural significance in the Iberian DOCOMOMO Register. A notable innovation in this research project is the incorporation of participatory processes through workshops. This experience marks the transition from the conservation of historical and cultural heritage to the conservation of modern heritage, by means of implementing methods to make heritage inclusive.

Author Biographies

Marta García-Casasola, University of Seville

Hired Doctor Professor (Associate) from the University of Seville (2021), previously associate professor (2004-2016), in the Department of Architectural History, Theory and Composition of the E.T.S. Architecture and professor of the Master in Architecture and Historical Heritage (MARPH). In said department, where she was a Teaching and Research Staff Training Scholarship (FPDeI), she obtained the Diploma of Advanced Studies (2003) within the Doctoral Program “Architecture and Heritage: Research, Reflection and Action”, finally obtaining the title PhD (2012) with the thesis Thesis Memory, Time and Authenticity: three fictions to intervene and interpret heritage.

She spent two months at the Faculty of Architecture of Caxias do Sul (Brazil) through a scholarship from the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation (2001) and has been a visiting researcher at the University of Oxford (summer 2022).

She is part of the Research Group of the University of Seville HUM-711 and is a researcher (since 2020) of the UNESCO Chair of Built Urban Heritage in the digital era CREhAR (Creative Research and Education in heritage Assessment and Regeneration) Built Urban Heritage in the Digital Was.

She has been Head of the Projects Department of the IAPH Intervention Center from 2003 to 2021, where she has worked interdisciplinaryly developing Diagnostics, Value Reports and Intervention Projects in Real Estate of the Andalusian Historical Heritage. Among other projects, she has participated as an editor in the landscape intervention in the Ensenada de Bolonia (Cádiz), a project that won the Hispania Nostra award (Good Territory and Landscape Practices).

She is a representative of the IAPH on the Board of Trustees and on the Permanent Commission of the DOCOMOMO Ibérico Foundation (2018-2021). Likewise, he has participated in numerous research projects linked to the RESEARCH LINE focused on the definition and updating of Heritage Intervention Methodologies, developing processes of knowledge and characterization of heritage at all its scales, from the object to the (cultural) landscape. as a prior step to defining conservation strategies (guardianship or shared management) that include enhancement and transfer.

José Luis Gómez Villa, Andalusian Institute of Historical Heritage

Graduate in Art History from the University of Seville (1999), Honorary Award for the Master's Degree in Heritage Restoration and Rehabilitation from the University of Alcalá de Henares (2001). Since 2001 he has worked at the Andalusian Institute of Historical Heritage, where he has developed his professional activity linked to the Historical Studies Research Area of ​​the Intervention Center, especially associated with the typology of heritage real estate in Andalusia. Among his most notable projects are the applied research for the heritage actions of the San Telmo Palace, the Reales Atarazanas, the Hospital de las Cinco Llagas (Seville) or the comprehensive intervention in the Church of Santo Cristo (Málaga). He has been responsible for the knowledge application R&D projects: STEP. Methodological Application Project (2012) and _re-HABITAR. Contemporary Heritage and Technology (2018). He is currently coordinator of the IAPH Strategic Plan for 2021-2025.

Beatriz Castellano-Bravo, Andalusian Institute of Historical Heritage

Architect (2001) and Master in Architecture and Historical Heritage from the University of Seville (Marph), professional specialty (2004) and research specialty (2011). She was part of the Out_archies research group (HUM853) at the University of Seville (US). Currently she is developing my doctoral thesis, titled Public space, heritage and city. The construction of public space as a support for heritage action, within the Research Line “City, Territory and Landscape” of the US Doctorate Program in Architecture. Since 2011, she has taught the subject of Historical Interpretation and Musealization of the Marph, an official postgraduate degree at the University of Seville.

She is a scholarship recipient of the 2003-2004 Training Program of the Andalusian Institute of Historical Heritage (IAPH), of the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sports of the Government of Andalusia, in the area of ​​Conservation of Real Estate. Since May 2023, I have been Head of the IAPH Projects Department, of which I have been a part since 2008. As a member of interdisciplinary teams, I have developed diagnoses, advice, heritage value reports and intervention projects in Andalusian Historical Heritage real estate. As well as museological, museographic and exhibition projects. Among which stands out the landscape intervention in the cultural landscape of the Ensenada de Bolonia (Cádiz), which obtained the Hispania Nostra Award for Good Practices in intervention in the territory or landscape in 2014.

As a researcher, I have participated in different projects aimed at methodological innovation in the protection of historical heritage. Currently, I am working on a line of research focused on cultural assessment as a basis for strategic conservation planning and the definition of intervention criteria in built heritage.

Torres García Torres García, Andalusian Institute of Historical Heritage

Doctoral Researcher in the Projects Department of the IAPH Intervention Center. Architect (University of Seville), MSc in Spatial Planning (Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, Sweden) and Doctor in Human Geography (University of Manchester, United Kingdom). He has publications in urban studies, and with professional experience in architecture, supramunicipal and territorial planning and protection of historical complexes, landscape studies and management, development cooperation, and management and analysis of sustainable urban development strategies.

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Published

2024-06-30

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Year 19, issue 55 (Jun. 2024)

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