New Construction in Old Historical Cities in Syria: Intervention and Conservation Policies and Technologies

Tez Türü: Doktora

Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Politecnico di Torino, İtalya

Tez Danışmanı: Prof.Pier Giorgio Tosoni ,Prof.Emanuele Romeo

Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2011

Tezin Dili: İngilizce

Özet:

Since the intervention works in Syria are relatively new, and the experience of intervention and conservation is little, and with the lack of experts in this field, so the intervention processes faces many problems. Those problems are not only the technical ones, but also administrative and organizational problems, in addition to the absence of new technological methods and materials, and the lack of experts in both (studies and execution) fields, and because of that appeared the need for new studies in these fields, with the need to identify clear policies to control the rehabilitation of the buildings and cultural heritage. The rise of the conflict between “Modernization” of the Syrian cities and the conservation of cultural heritage, which represents the local Identity, and forms the new income resource, by the development of tourism in the old historical cities, which needs whole new infrastructure, services, buildings…etc, and which participates in 25% of the whole national income in Syria in 2007, depending on the Financial Ministry statistics, and with the tenth “Five years plan” of development which seeks to increase it to be more than 40%, many questions appeared, and waiting to be answered, which tries to put a road plan to solve this conflict, and a big debate started trying to identify the priorities in both the short and long term plans of development process in Syria. The huge investments and new projects in that field created a lot of problems, and faced many obstacles; the most important one was the absence of modern legislative and technological environment, which leads to clear laws and policies for the intervention and conservation process in Syria. This research attempts to participate in the formation of the new policy, depending on other countries experience, especially Italy, in both parts; the new technologies used in conservation and restoration, and the modern laws and legislations to control and monitor the intervention in cultural and architectural heritage in Syria.

Keywords: intervention, policy, technology, new construction, Aleppo, Syria