מאסטר קלאס בשימור ואדריכלות #02: אקלים
The act of conservation embodies an ongoing negotiation between heritage values, aesthetics, and identity, and contemporary programmatic demands and functional needs. In our upcoming session, we will examine how to establish knowledge-based priorities that balance the duty to preserve heritage values with the need to reduce a building's energy consumption during the new life cycle granted to it by the act of conservation. This challenge is heightened by the current planning reality: while green building regulations for new structures are becoming standardized, the field of conservation lacks defined guidelines or regulatory tools for data-driven decision-making.
The discussion will focus on the importance of documenting existing climatic values as an essential foundation for any planning recommendation. We will ask how methodological tools developed for green building can be adapted for conservation, and whether tools designed to refine conservation practices can help identify and map passive bio-climatic planning qualities in existing buildings. Furthermore, we will discuss ways to integrate climatic needs with conservation ethics, identifying key areas where these interests converge.