1. CONSERVATION
IMPORTANCE AND TYPES

2. Heritage and Conservation
Our nation's history has many facets, and historic conservation helps tell these stories. Sometimes historic preservation involves celebrating events, people, places, and ideas that we are proud of; other times it involves recognizing moments in our history that can be painful or uncomfortable to remember.
Importance of Conservation
links our heritage to living traditions (make us feel that it still exists)
Keeping architecture and towns for future generations
and sustainable development
What do we conserve
religious architecture – mosques, temples, churches
Monumental architecture - forts and palaces,
Non – monumental architecture - houses, schools, factories, shops, bridges, etc

3. Conservation
Definition : the process through which the material, historical and design integrity of mankind’s built heritage are prolonged through careful planned interventions.
Deals with issues of prolonging the life and integrity of architectural character, such as form and style, and its constituent materials such as brick, stone, glass, metal and wood.

4. Conservation
Conservation covers all actions aimed at safeguarding historical buildings and towns.
It includes:
retaining the building’s significant historical, social, aesthetic and technological qualities
ensuring that all actions are carried out with the least possible intervention
researching, recording/cataloguing and retaining all knowledge and information related to the building’s context, history, manufacture, use, acquisition, donors, etc documenting the object in detail, which may include photographing it
recording and retaining all information related to the treatment of the building.

6. ARCHITECTURAL CONSERVATION
PRESERVATION
RESTORATION
ADAPTIVE REUSE
RECONSTRUCTION
MAINTENANCE
ARCHITECTURAL PRESERVATION
Process to protect and maintain buildings in their current state
Prevent further damage and deterioration to them.

7. ARCHITECTURAL RESTORATION
Returning to a known earlier state without the introduction of new materials.
It should be restored to its original character.
Historic buildings must be improved and sometimes even completed using current day materials, design and techniques.

8. ARCHITECTURAL RESTORATION
re-creating, with historic materials and techniques, missing features
Restoration usually means:
removing or covering up signs of wear and use, through actions such as painting, replacing and or reconstructing missing or worn parts, with ‘spare parts’ and/or new materials or parts
restoration must not destroy or diminish the history, and therefore significance, of the item – reversible restoration
responsible restoration applies minimal intervention.

9. ADAPTIVE REUSE / REVITALISATION/ REHABILITATION
To conserve historic buildings or districts while putting them into good use
perfect way to breathe new life into an old building, while conserving resources and historic value
adaptive reuse is a good solution to some of the modern problems of the built environment.
CHANGE IN FUNCTION
USE NEW MATERIALS
Heritage preservation and adaptive reuse of historic warehouse provides new offices and showrooms, with central café in large atrium

10. Reconstruction
Reconstruction is the creation of a historically accurate copy of either a specific historic property that no longer exists or an example of one from a chosen historical period. 
The reconstruction may use traditional techniques and materials, but the materials will be new, and therefore different from the actual materials that would be found in an original structure. 

11. Heritage : something that is handed down from the past, as a tradition:
Man Made Heritage:
Archaeological (Sub structure)
Architectural ( Super structure)
Movables ( Painting, sculpture etc.)
Heritage:
Tangible Heritage Historic Precincts of Cities:
Culturally significant buildings and towns
Artefacts
Intangible Heritage Extant culture of traditional buildings,
skills and knowledge
Rites and Ritual
Social life and
Life style of the inhabitants

12. Values in Conservation
Emotional Values
Wonder
Identity
Continuity
Spiritual and
symbolic
Cultural Values
Documentary
Historic
Archaeological, Age and Scarcity
Aesthetic and symbolic
Architectural
Townscape, landscape and Ecological
Technological and Scientific
Use Values
Functional
Economical
Social
Political and
Ethnic

13. Briefly write a paper on the culture and heritage of Oman
Arts and Crafts
Music and dance
Rituals and religious activities
Life style of the people - tribes
Social practices – marriage, gender, language
Cooking, clothing, Jewellery
Architecture and housing
Economical

14. Different steps for CONSERVATION
Designation of historic sites (includes government and privately owned properties)
Documentation (includes written, photographic, and technical documentation, as well as oral histories)
Physical preservation (includes stabilization, rehabilitation, restoration, and reconstruction)