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 This will be addressed by collection information from existing published and unpublished documents, site visits and interviews with conservation professionals.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看着大量脆弱的遗址，这些遗址过去经常受到复杂的管理和保护干预。遗址包括重要的考古遗址和砖石建造的历史建筑，这将是该项目的重点。水是这些遗址恶化的主要因素，有效管理流经和流经这些遗址的水对保护这些遗址至关重要。该项目旨在通过管理进出建筑物的水运动，对保存和保护砖石建筑遗址的不同战略进行全面和平衡的评估，以便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测相结合，该项目将能够开发一种新的、高度适用的工具包，专门用于评估被毁砌体的脆弱性。这种方法将为英国遗产和其他组织提供一个有用的决策工具，以评估在未来气候变化的保护方案。这将确保遗址能够以更具成本效益的方式得到保护，并更能适应不断变化的环境条件。该项目有三个目标，将通过研究的不同内容加以解决。目的之一是审查什么保护策略是目前或潜在的管理在破坏砌体水分运动。这将通过从现有的出版和未出版的文件中收集信息，现场访问和与保护专业人员的访谈来解决。第二个目标是收集最有前途的保护策略，在目标一，可能侧重于“硬”的技术，如硬封顶和指向强大的数据。这将通过开发和部署创新的实地监测和数据收集方法来解决，以显示保护策略如何影响遗址上和遗址内的水流。数据收集的重点将是牛津大学Wytham Woods场地的四堵定制测试墙，这四堵墙是在之前的一个联合项目中与历史英格兰合作建造的。第三个目标是探索创新的数值模拟方法，以测试不断变化的环境条件对硬封顶与其他保护策略的性能的影响。这将通过使用项目前两部分的调查结果为数字建模提供信息来解决。该模型将允许模拟比仅从实地监测获得的更广泛的气候条件，测试未来可能的气候情景下的不同保护战略。该项目将提供科学和基于现场的证据，以帮助该部门保护这一重要的建筑遗产。研究问题包括：1.有什么潜在的保护措施来管理废弃砌体中的水分进出，它们的优点和缺点是什么？2.如何保护各种类型的破坏砌体的干预措施（特别是'硬'干预，如硬封顶和尖）影响水流状态（特别是水的进出）？3.如何优化保护干预措施，以确保在未来50-100年预测的未来环境条件下取得最佳效果？该项目将与英国遗产和历史英格兰合作进行。该项目福尔斯AHRC优先研究领域4。该建议涉及澳大利亚人权委员会职权范围内的两个关键主题，即遗产管理（文化和博物馆研究一级主题内的二级主题）和考古学（一级主题）。