In England, accessibility to historic buildings falls under the Equality Act 2010, for which a key concept is making of ‘reasonable adjustments’ physical features building; this acknowledges that blanket application technical requirements would be detrimental some buildings, and equal access may not achievable in every case. 
 This paper approaches England from two angles. The first consid...

This work is part of an ongoing project, which focuses on the application of AR in Architecture and Urbanism and heritage studies seek to develop interactive multimedia platform and contents about historic buildings known as "Quarteirão dos Trapiches" on Laranjeiras, city of Sergipe State on Brazil. This project explores the potential of mobile applications to disseminate the architectural heri...

Museums represent an architecturally multifaceted typology. Regardless of their variant focus, current task is to provide opportunity for cultural, educational, and exploratory experience all. The accessibility the physical environment important, but so perception exhibition. This paper deals primarily with spatial design qualities, which determine degree inclusion in museums. principles Univer...

Three-dimensional representation is becoming an effective support for the documentation of the state of conservation of heritage artefacts, for the study of transformations of the built environment and for cultural dissemination. New 3D digitisation technologies now offer effective means to observe and analyse historic buildings with more accuracy, completeness and timeliness. Nevertheless, the...

URM (Unreinforced Masonry) historic buildings can be generally arranged into three categories: adobe, brick and stone masonry. However, a common feature of URM structures is typically the low mechanical properties of the masonry material, especially in terms of shear strength. URM buildings are not amenable to seismic analysis, and the relatively low strength of stone and brickwork masonry ofte...

Interventions on the built environment and more generally on buildings of the past, including the recent past, and their management call for fine-tuned knowledge and organization skills in all the related areas, from planning to maintenance. In Italy, even today, these activities are frequently dealt with – by public authorities and private individuals alike – in inappropriate or inadequate way...