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4 Conservation and Technical Issues
The research process, which requires both developing technological principles of
securing and protecting these relics, will also necessitate providing appropriate technical conditions in the form of a cover structure that will shelter them from atmospheric conditions and will allow for regulating climate parameters inside the structure. Structures of this type appear at archaeological sites intended for so-called
musealisation [10] and take on the form of deliberately designed covering constructions [11] in the form of a building or structure that is architectural in character. Such
solutions are well-known, particularly in European ancient culture sites, where the
archaeological preserve is a popular form of the musealisation of an archaeological
site. The preserve is a deliberately arranged protective space, which forms either
an enclosed, developed exhibition, or an open-air exhibition [11]. Among the many
innovative examples of enclosed preserves that show signs of being outstanding
architectural projects—worthy of analysis in light of the case study at hand: the
Sandomierz convent of the Order of St. Dominic—we can list the large, glazed
structure suspended over the remains of the Great Baths linked with the modern
Römer Museum, located at the Xanten Archaeological Park near Cologne, designed
by German architects Gatermann + Schossig (in cooperation with IPP Polonyi &
Partner) [12], or the Neo-modernist pavilion of the Gallo-Roman Vesunna Museum
in Perigueux (Department of Dordogne), designed by Jean Nouvel, which exhibits
the remains of a Roman residence that features mosaics and a rich collection of
priceless artefacts. The musealisation of the archaeological site and its protection
from atmospheric conditions was performed by covering it with a roof supported by
14 narrow, fourteen-metres-tall columns that rest on micropiles, which minimally
interfere with the site’s stratigraphy, and a glass curtain wall [13].
Of note is the fact that a mixed ventilation system was applied here: the lower
part of the glass curtain wall has a gap along its perimeter, allowing for natural
gravitational ventilation of the preserve’s internal space, but the building is also fitted
out with a HVAC installation, which enables the fine-tuning of the environmental
parameters of the space in which the relics are exhibited (Figs. 6 and 7).
Similar principles were followed in recent years in the design and construction of
a branch of the Archaeological Museum—the Kaiserpfalz franconofurd [14] exhibition, which is a part of a larger project of the restoration of the historical centre
of Frankfurt am Main, or rather the construction of a New Old Town there [15].
The new Stadthaus building, along with the Kaiserpfalz franconofurd archaeological exhibition, is an interesting case of contemporary architecture that is excellently
incorporated into its historical context and is also a conveyor of symbolic content
through a combination of the innovatively arranged relic exhibition of the imperial
residence of Charlemagne with formal reception rooms of the City Hall (Stadthaus).
The modern space of the enclosed preserve, which ensures controlled, custom climate
conditions, established at the site of the former open-air Archäologische Garten,
presents the key fragments of a residence from the two-millennia-long history of
the city. The form and content of the new exhibition were determined by the results
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4 Conservation and Technical Issues
The research process, which requires both developing technological principles of
securing and protecting these relics, will also necessitate providing appropriate technical conditions in the form of a cover structure that will shelter them from atmospheric conditions and will allow for regulating climate parameters inside the structure. Structures of this type appear at archaeological sites intended for so-called
musealisation [10] and take on the form of deliberately designed covering constructions [11] in the form of a building or structure that is architectural in character. Such
solutions are well-known, particularly in European ancient culture sites, where the
archaeological preserve is a popular form of the musealisation of an archaeological
site. The preserve is a deliberately arranged protective space, which forms either
an enclosed, developed exhibition, or an open-air exhibition [11]. Among the many
innovative examples of enclosed preserves that show signs of being outstanding
architectural projects—worthy of analysis in light of the case study at hand: the
Sandomierz convent of the Order of St. Dominic—we can list the large, glazed
structure suspended over the remains of the Great Baths linked with the modern
Römer Museum, located at the Xanten Archaeological Park near Cologne, designed
by German architects Gatermann + Schossig (in cooperation with IPP Polonyi &
Partner) [12], or the Neo-modernist pavilion of the Gallo-Roman Vesunna Museum
in Perigueux (Department of Dordogne), designed by Jean Nouvel, which exhibits
the remains of a Roman residence that features mosaics and a rich collection of
priceless artefacts. The musealisation of the archaeological site and its protection
from atmospheric conditions was performed by covering it with a roof supported by
14 narrow, fourteen-metres-tall columns that rest on micropiles, which minimally
interfere with the site’s stratigraphy, and a glass curtain wall [13].
Of note is the fact that a mixed ventilation system was applied here: the lower
part of the glass curtain wall has a gap along its perimeter, allowing for natural
gravitational ventilation of the preserve’s internal space, but the building is also fitted
out with a HVAC installation, which enables the fine-tuning of the environmental
parameters of the space in which the relics are exhibited (Figs. 6 and 7).
Similar principles were followed in recent years in the design and construction of
a branch of the Archaeological Museum—the Kaiserpfalz franconofurd [14] exhibition, which is a part of a larger project of the restoration of the historical centre
of Frankfurt am Main, or rather the construction of a New Old Town there [15].
The new Stadthaus building, along with the Kaiserpfalz franconofurd archaeological exhibition, is an interesting case of contemporary architecture that is excellently
incorporated into its historical context and is also a conveyor of symbolic content
through a combination of the innovatively arranged relic exhibition of the imperial
residence of Charlemagne with formal reception rooms of the City Hall (Stadthaus).
The modern space of the enclosed preserve, which ensures controlled, custom climate
conditions, established at the site of the former open-air Archäologische Garten,
presents the key fragments of a residence from the two-millennia-long history of
the city. The form and content of the new exhibition were determined by the results