Criteria Entries of UNESCO & Principle for Conservation

Criteria entries of UNESCO Asia- Pacific Heritage Awards:

Criterion A: The articulation of the structure’s heritage value in order to convey the spirit is place through conservation work.
Criterion B: The appropriate use or adaptation of the structure.
Criterion C: The interpretation of the culture, social, historical and architectural significant of the structure(s) in conservation work.
Criterion D: The understanding of the technical issue of conservation/ restoration in interpreting the structure’s significance.
Criterion E: the use and quality control of appropriate building, artisan and conservation techniques.
Criterion F: the use of appropriate material.
Criterion G: How well any added elements or creative technical solutions respect the character and inherent spatial quality of the structure(s).
Criterion H: The manner in which the process and product contribute to the surrounding environment and the local community’s cultural and historical continuum.
Criterion I: The influence of the project on conservation practice, locally policy, nationally, regionally and internationally.
Criterion J: The on-going social economy viability and relevance of the project, and provision for the future use and maintenance.
Criterion K: The complexity, sensitivity and technical consistency of the project methodology.

First Principles for Conserving Historic Built Heritage

Principle 1: Collective mapping of cultural space, its hierarchies, symbolic language, and associations is a prerequisite for appropriate and successful conservation.
Principle 2: Tangible cultural expression derives their origin, value and continuing significance from intangible cultural practices.
Principle 3: Authenticity, the defining characteristic of heritage, is a culturally-relative attribute to be found in continuity, but not only in the continuity on material only.
Principle 4: The conservation process succeeds when histories are revealed, tradition revived, meaning recovered in a palimpsest of knowledge.
Principle 5: Appropriate use of heritage is arrived through a negotiation process, resulting in a life-enhancing space.

(Asian Conserved, Lessons Learn from the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation (2000-2004), Published by UNESCO Bangkok August 2007)