ÖZKD LXXVI Heft 4, pp. 81-92, 2024/04/08
Weiterbauen am Denkmal: Internationale Fachtagung
According to the 2018 Davos Declaration, the way in which we use, maintain and protect our cultural heritage a key element of a high-quality Baukultur. The all-encompassing nature of this term, defined in the Declaration as “embracing every human activity that changes the built environment”, is crucial to our understanding of its meaning: it seeks to reconcile the desired quality of the new with that which already exists. This suggests that building as an ongoing process is extremely important as a discipline and a tool for achieving a high-quality Baukultur that constantly strives to strike a balance between value preservation and current design. Further work on existing monuments is at one end of the scale here. Conservation has specific requirements when it comes to the management of existing buildings. It draws upon various proven methods and experiences, which can also be applied on a scalable basis to other tasks of continued construction.
