Collision of built heritage revitalisation principles and "design for all"

Abstract

Nine briefly examined examples of built heritage in this paper reveal various cases of collision of conservation principles with demands of barrier-free architecture. The importance of this issue has been raised in the light of increasing world-wide efforts to preserve cultural heritage buildings for future generations by revitalization and strong efforts, in particularly in the EU, to reach higher standards in inclusion of all social groups.

Keywords

• built heritage
• revitalization
• accessibility