Climate Change Challenges for Heritage Architecture
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Climatology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 December 2024 | Viewed by 128
Special Issue Editors
Interests: built heritage; climate-induced risk assessment; adaptive solutions; microclimate; whole-building simulation; energy efficiency; sustainability
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Interests: built heritage; sustainability; conservation; multidimentional analysis; historic buildings; energy retrofit
Interests: energy efficiency; photovoltaic; HVAC systems; microclimate; building retrofit; whole-building simulation; built heritage
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Climate change is one of the most critical global challenges of our time and could lead, among other things, to the accelerated degradation or loss of cultural heritage. In order to appropriately manage historic buildings, it is important to determine how future changes in the climate will affect the outdoor and, consequently, indoor conditions of built heritage. Such structures are generally characterized by old and precious materials and contain artworks and collections, which are particularly sensitive to climate behavior. In this regard, an evaluation of the potential risks and effects that climate variations exert on heritage buildings over time is pivotal to the development of efficient and sustainable adaptation and mitigation strategies that properly preserve such heritage for future generations.
This Special Issue aims to collect recent studies concerning the impact of climate change on the conservation of historic buildings. The focus is not only on the analysis of possible decay effects, but also on methodologies, predictive models and tailored adaptive solutions that aim to mitigate the risks.
Therefore, this Special Issue of Atmosphere aims to collect scientific contributions (articles/communications/reviews) that focus on the effect of climate change on heritage buildings; it therefore welcomes studies performed using different approaches/methodologies and case study applications.
Dr. Harold Enrique Huerto-Cardenas
Dr. Alessia Buda
Dr. Claudio Del Pero
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- built heritage
- indoor climate and monitoring
- conservation
- risk assessment
- climate change
- simulation models
- adaptive and tailored solutions
- case studies
- economic impact
- effects on thermal comfort
