Conserving ruined masonry: managing water regimes to enhance resilience in the face of changing environmental conditions

保护被毁坏的砖石建筑：管理水情以增强面对不断变化的环境条件的恢复能力

• 批准号: 2742620
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Oxford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2742620
• 关键词: Conserving; ruined; masonry; managing; water

English Heritage and other national and international organisations look after a huge number of vulnerable ruins which have often been subjected to complex management and conservation interventions in the past. Ruins include important archaeological sites and historic buildings constructed of masonry which will be the focus of this project. Water is the major agent of deterioration of these ruins, and effective management of water flowing over and within them is vital for their conservation. The project aims to provide a full and balanced evaluation of different strategies to conserve and protect masonry ruins through managing water movements into and out of the structures in order to provide better understanding and guidance. By combining field and laboratory methods with numerical modelling and monitoring, this project will enable the development of a new, highly applicable toolkit, tailored to assessing the vulnerability of ruined masonry. This approach will provide English Heritage and other organisations with a useful decision making tool for evaluating conservation options in the face of future climatic change. This will ensure that ruins can be more cost-effectively conserved and are more resilient to changing environmental conditions. The project has three objectives which will be addressed by different elements of the research. Objective one is to review what conservation strategies are currently or potentially available for managing moisture movement in ruined masonry. This will be addressed by collection information from existing published and unpublished documents, site visits and interviews with conservation professionals. The second objective is to collect robust data on the most promising conservation strategies identified in objective one, with a likely focus on 'hard' techniques such as hard capping and pointing. This will be addressed by developing and deploying innovative field monitoring and data collection methods to show how the conservation strategies influence water flow over and within ruins. The focus of data collection will be four bespoke test walls at the University of Oxford's Wytham Woods field site, built in collaboration with Historic England during a previous joint project. The third objective is to explore innovative numerical modelling methods to test the influence of changing environmental conditions on the performance of hard capping vs other conservation strategies. This will be addressed through using the findings from the first two parts of the project to inform numerical modelling. The modelling will allow a much wider range of climatic conditions to be simulated than can be gained from field monitoring alone, testing different conservation strategies under likely future climatic scenarios. The project will provide scientific and site-based evidence to help the sector conserve this important element of the built heritage. Research questions include:1. What are the potential conservation interventions for managing moisture ingress and egress in ruined masonry, and what are their strengths and weaknesses? 2. How do conservation interventions for ruined masonry of various types (especially 'hard' interventions like hard capping and pointing) influence water flow regimes (particularly ingress and egress of water)? 3. How can conservation interventions be optimised to ensure the best results under predicted future environmental conditions over the coming 50-100 years?This project will be undertaken in collaboration with both English Heritage and Historic England.This project falls within the AHRC Priority Research Area 4. The proposal addresses two key themes of the AHRC remit, i.e. heritage management (a level two theme within the level one theme of cultural and museum studies) and archaeology (a level one theme).

英国遗产和其他国家和国际组织照顾了许多脆弱的废墟，这些废墟过去经常受到过去的复杂管理和保护干预措施。废墟包括重要的考古遗址和由砌体建造的历史建筑，这将是该项目的重点。水是这些废墟恶化的主要因素，有效地管理流过的水和其中的水对于它们的保护至关重要。该项目旨在通过将水上运动进入和从结构中管理和保护砖石遗迹进行全面，平衡的评估，以保护和保护砌体遗迹，以提供更好的理解和指导。通过将现场和实验室方法与数值建模和监视相结合，该项目将使一个新的，高度适用的工具包的开发，该工具包为评估毁灭砌体的脆弱性而量身定制。这种方法将为面对未来的气候变化，为英语遗产和其他组织提供有用的决策工具，用于评估保护方案。这将确保废墟可以更具成本效益的保存，并且对不断变化的环境条件更具弹性。该项目具有三个目标，这些目标将由研究的不同要素解决。客观的一个是回顾当前有哪些保护策略或可能可用于管理破坏砌体中的水分运动。这将通过现有已发表和未发表的文档，现场访问以及与保护专业人员的访谈的收集信息来解决。第二个目标是收集有关目标一号最有希望的保护策略的强大数据，并可能着重于“硬”技术，例如硬封码和指向。这将通过开发和部署创新的现场监控和数据收集方法来解决这一问题，以说明保护策略如何影响废墟中和内部的水流。数据收集的重点将是牛津大学的Wytham Woods Field站点的四个定制测试墙，该地点是在先前的联合项目中与历史悠久的英格兰合作建造的。第三个目标是探索创新的数值建模方法，以测试不断变化的环境条件对硬封与其他保护策略的性能的影响。这将通过使用项目的前两个部分的发现来解决数值建模。该建模将允许模拟多种气候条件，而不是单独的现场监控，可以在可能的未来气候场景下测试不同的保护策略。该项目将提供科学和基于场地的证据，以帮助该部门保护建筑遗产的这一重要要素。研究问题包括：1。在砖砌中管理水分进出水分和出口的潜在保护干预措施是什么？它们的优点和缺点是什么？ 2。对各种类型的砌体的保护干预措施（尤其是“硬”干预措施（例如硬封码）和指向）如何影响水流机制（尤其是水的入口和流水）？ 3.如何优化保护干预措施，以确保未来50 - 100年的未来环境条件下的最佳结果？将与英国遗产和历史悠久的英格兰合作进行该项目。该项目属于AHRC优先研究领域4。该提案介绍了AHRC职权的两个关键主题，即遗产管理（文化和博物馆研究的第一级主题）和考古学（一级主题）。