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Abstract(s)
In Portugal there are many heritage buildings with patrimonial, historical and cultural values in an advanced degradation process. These heritage buildings has unparalleled architectural features and uniqueness in addition to all the wealth and associated history which could be adapt for different typologies of uses such as the tourism sector. The architectonical valorization and rehabilitation works of this type of building has generally some constraints that are not only related with their work specificities but also with other factors many others related with misunderstandings among owners, inheritance problems, lack of money, and others.
The article describes a case study that involves the surveying of constraints and other problems concerning the rehabilitation works of a manor house. The definition of adjusted and compatible solutions is balanced in a way to make it compatible with the build heritage existences. For this purpose some measures and ideas of a management system to support buildings rehabilitation works based on sustainable practices are used.
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Old buildings Manor houses Rehabilitation works Sustainability Reuse Management
Citation
Oliveira, Rui; Lopes, Jorge; Abreu, Maria Isabel (2017). The specificities of manor houses as built heritage: a case study. In PROHITECH 2017 - 3rd International Conference on Protection of Historical Constructions. IST, Lisboa