Horizontal accessibility: novelties from new ceramic pavements

Abstract

Built heritage should be preserved, despite the fact that access barriers are frequently present, which difficult the right of people to access to heritage as an integrating factor of culture. In this context, the use of building materials that facilitate, in a secure way, the access to build heritage is crucial, especially when reversibility is considered in both phases of conservation and exploitation. In this context it has been considered solution systems based on the construction of light structures using porcelain pavements, which incorporate information in digitally printed legends which reduces the impact on such a kind of signs. This system, allows for differentiating the intervention from the original works, at the time that assures security and accessibility, since mobility restrictions are considered in the design process. In this paper, carried out in the Framework of the PATRAC Project, the use of this system considering as a case of study the Mosque of Cristo de la Luz in Toledo is proposed.