Our aims
Several barriers prevent from an effective safeguarding and enhancing policies for cultural heritage assets. The most relevant are: (i) inadequate interaction between figures contributing to the complex process of the site conservation, due to excessive fragmentation of authorities and ineffective management of funding, (ii) limited knowledge of the combined effects of the most relevant hazards and risks, (iii) lack of information about structure conservation and consistency and (iv) difficulties in the assessment of actual response of assets to natural or human-induced shocks. Finally, innovative solutions for conservation are still too expensive in terms of human and economic resources, impeding a wide diffusion of cutting-edge technologies.
Thus, MICHe proposes new analyses methods, strategies, intervention solutions and management tools to increase the resilience of cultural heritage assets against multiple hazards like earthquakes, floods, landslides, and fires employing an inter-disciplinary approach.
Targets of MICHe are to:
-Improve hazard assessment prediction procedures to develop a multi-hazard assessment protocols specific for cultural heritage sites
-Exploit novel structural analysis tools integrating results of available methods for a robust assessment of structural consistency and behaviour under the pressure of multiple hazards
-Set up and validate intervention solutions capable to meet the requirements of environmental sustainability and of
conservation principles (compatibility, durability, reversibility and minimization of impact).
-Enhance the role of cultural heritage as a strategic resource establishing profitable and long-term policy models to encourage a sustainable exploitation of development and rehabilitation projects.
These targets completely meets the statements of the EU Council “Conclusions on cultural heritage as a strategic resource
for a sustainable Europe” and the EU Commission Communication 477(2014) “Towards an integrated approach to cultural heritage for Europe”.
The project will be centred to specific study cases: the Modena Chatedral, the Florence city centre and the S. Miniato hill, the urban city walls of Volterra (PI) and the Norman Tower in the village of Craco (MT). The study cases are representative for the entire Italian territory and empower a direct up-scaling.