Architectural Heritage Information System (S.I.P.A.)

PECSRL 2008 - LANDSCAPES, IDENTITIES AND DEVELOPMENT Óbidos, Portugal, 1-5 September Architectural Heritage Information System (S.I.P.A.) Luís Marques (Geographer) Housing and Urban Rehabilitation Institute

PECSRL 2008 - LANDSCAPES, IDENTITIES AND DEVELOPMENT Óbidos, Portugal, 1-5 September SIPA SIPA Sistema de Informação para o Património Arquitectónico Forte de Sacavém

S.I.P.A. is a resource of information and documentation specialized in architectural, urban and landscape heritage.

S.I.P.A. is a resource of information and documentation specialized in architectural, urban and landscape heritage, focusing on Portugal and Portuguese speaking countries. This system is divided into several components: Library; Archives; Traditional techniques (know-how) inventory; SIPA - Thesaurus; Risk management plans; Architectural heritage inventory; Urban settings inventory; Landscape inventory.

PECSRL 2008 - LANDSCAPES, IDENTITIES AND DEVELOPMENT Óbidos, Portugal, 1-5 September Landscape Architectural Heritage Information System (SIPA) Luís Marques lcmarques@ihru.pt SIPA Sistema de Informação para o Património Arquitectónico Forte de Sacavém

Landscape conceptualization (SIPA) Landscape is defined as a geographical, ecological and aesthetic entity that results from the complex action made by man and all the living organisms, in balance with the physical factors of the environment. Landscape should be defined as a result of a dynamical combination (for that reason, unstable) of physic, biologic, and anthropic subsystems, which interact with each other.

European Landscape Convention Landscape: an area, as perceived by people, whose character is the result of the action and interaction of natural and/or human factors. European Landscape Convention Florence 2000, October 20th

Landscape as a Geossystem (Bertrand) GEOMORFOLOGY + CLIMATE + HYDROLOGY ECOLOGICAL POTENTIAL VEGETATION, SOIL, ANIMALS BIOLOGICAL POTENTIAL GEOSSYSTEM ANTHROPIC ACTIONS

Landscape components examples Land Water Vegetation Artificial elements

Landscape components examples Land Water Abiotic Vegetation Artificial elements

Landscape components examples - Abiotic

Landscape components examples Land Water Vegetation Biotic Artificial elements

Landscape components examples - Biotic

Landscape components examples Land Water Vegetation Artificial elements Anthropic

Landscape components examples - Anthropic

Cultural and biophysical analysis

Synthesized method Images, alphanumeric and bibliographic research Field work Validation and selection of information Abiotic components Biotic components Anthropic components Identification and characterization of the landscape unit Land use management instruments Landscape perception System interaction evaluation Thematic cartography Text Photos

Landscape An inventory of cultural landscape implies the analysis of the elements (biotic, abiotic and anthropic) that compose the Geosystem and the evaluation of its systemic interactions. In this sense, this project has characterized different landscape units, which, due to its natural, historical and cultural importance, should be preserved. The study of these units followed national and european legislation.

Landscape This project is a contribution to: Safeguarding architectural heritage, understood as a structural part of cultural landscape; Supporting other entities (local, regional and central administration) with responsibilities in this area (environment, land use planning, urbanism, heritage); Scientific and technical research; General dissemination of knowledge.

PECSRL 2008 - LANDSCAPES, IDENTITIES AND DEVELOPMENT Óbidos, Portugal, 1-5 September Open-source software Google Earth Visualization Architectural Heritage Information System (SIPA) SIPA Sistema de Informação para o Património Arquitectónico Forte de Sacavém

Google Earth Visualization

Historical cartography Lisboa (1858)

(Fonte: Gabinete Estudos Olissiponenses)

Historical cartography Vila Viçosa (1763)

Vila Viçosa 1763

Vila Viçosa 1998

Coord. (HGDLx) X: 262000 Y: 202107 N Vila Viçosa 1998

Landscape Risk Management Plan

Landscape Risk Management Plan Future dam

Water level 75m

Water level 80m

Water level 90m

Conflict (Roads) Water level 100m

Water level 110m

Water level 120m

Water level 130m

Water level 140m

Water level 150m

Conflict (Buildings) Water level 150m

Results Information system comprising 30.000 records with text and iconographic information; 350.000 digitalized photographic records; 240.000 digitalized drawings and cartographical material; 8 km of shelves with textual documents, which 12,5 million pages are digitalized and available on-line; over 15.000 files of georeferenced information (GIS). Website accesses in 2007 (monthly average) Access (number) 33.371 Accessed pages (number) 109.105 Accessed images (reduced) 361.355 Accessed images/documents 72.314 www.monumentos.pt