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Modular, zero-energy storage depots
Abstract
Date: 12 May 2011
Location: Benediktbeuern
The event intends to show new approaches to renovating storage depots and archive buildings, since although the collections in museums and archives may not always be at the centre of public attention, they nevertheless provide important testimony to our intellectual and cultural heritage. In addition to research and conveying knowledge, collecting and conserving are important tasks of traditional museum work. The conference will be held at Europäisches Kompetenzzentrum für Energetische Bausanierung und Denkmalpflege, which is based at the Benediktbeuern Monastery.
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The preservation of collections has to primarily meet conservation requirements in terms of the indoor environment, security and fire protection. Since most collections are only ever partly on public display and are largely stored in depots, they require storage areas that meet these requirements and are economically feasible. At a time of cuts in cultural budgets and increasing energy costs, there is a need to reconcile the long-term conservation of the art and cultural assets with the provision of storage areas that are ecologically and economically viable. Both museums and archives have to actively act here in order to conserve the artworks in their trust despite the scarce resources, whereby the key to a successful, future-oriented strategy is economic and energy-efficient storage and archive construction.
The conference will be addressing this problem and will present possible solutions using current examples from research and practice related to energy-efficient, sustainable construction.
The event is being organised by the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics (IBP) in conjunction with k3-artservices, which provides preventive conservation and storage depot design services, and project developer Ottmann GmbH & Co. Südhausbau KG.
Further details and registration
You can download the event flyer and the conference programme as a PDF file. It is possible to register using the registration form.
Further details on the conference can be obtained from Europäisches Kompetenzzentrum für energetische Altbausanierung und Denkmalpflege – Kloster Benediktbeuern:
c/o Fraunhofer-Institut für Bauphysik IBP, Claudia Schindler, Phone 08024 / 643-643, E-mail registration address: anmeldung(at)denkmalpflege.fraunhofer.de, www.denkmalpflege.fraunhofer.de