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Paths to the Past. Designing Equipment for Sustainable Management and a Culturally Aware Fruition of the Site

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This chapter briefly reviews the criteria and the scientific bases on which we rested to lay out and plan the fixed equipment for the archaeological park, with the aim of offering a sustainable on the long-term and a culturally aware public visiting of the site. Environmental, economic and technical sustainability were the keywords kept in the foreground when planning the accesses, visit paths and the protective shelter. The materials chosen for the new equipment are almost exclusively natural, as wood and local stone (basalt). The design of the protective shelter for the mudbrick walls is based on a huge literature research on different typologies and the assessment of their duration through time.

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    We initially designed a more elaborate, small staircase with a wooden structure anchored with steel. The stair would have been 120 cm wide and conceived of steel stringers (C-profile, 250 mm), to which steel brackets supporting the steps are bolted or welded, the steps of solid wood, 50 mm thick, screwed to the intrados, the stringers anchored to the ground with metal joints or concrete blocks. The guards of the handrail would have consisted of wooden posts, 10 × 10 cm in section and 90 cm high, set onto metal disks, 20 cm in diameter, welded to the upper edge of the C-profile (Fig. 7). In fact, this version was not realized on the ground (the type of Fig. 6 was the one implemented) but it is published here for future applications.

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    The monitoring system was conceived and installed by Ecosearch Environmental Monitoring and Sampling.

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    Stefano Francesco Musso

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Franco, G. (2020). Paths to the Past. Designing Equipment for Sustainable Management and a Culturally Aware Fruition of the Site. In: Marchetti, N., Franco, G., Musso, S., Spadolini, M. (eds) An Integrated Approach for an Archaeological and Environmental Park in South-Eastern Turkey. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32754-5_7

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