Modern architectural building is a cultural heritage along with our history's trail up to now and documentation is considered as an irreplaceable way to preserve our cultural heritages, since a documentation may be the last resort of preservation. Mat...
Modern architectural building is a cultural heritage along with our history's trail up to now and documentation is considered as an irreplaceable way to preserve our cultural heritages, since a documentation may be the last resort of preservation. Materials such as photos, measured drawings and reports collected for documentation of modern architectural building can provide informations of modern architectural building to the public and research datas to researchers. Furthermore, in case of fire or other disasters, they may contribute to heritage preservation as repair and restoration references.
The study analyzed the Historic American Buildings Survey on Heritage Documentation Programs of the National Park Service. On the basis of analysis, through comparison and documentation of modern architectural building implemented by the Cultural Heritage Administration, the study suggested improvement plans in three different perspectives.
Firstly, it is required to strengthen the legal system regarding documentation of modern architectural buildings. Unlike USA where documentation is being implemented aggressively as a legal obligation, the documentation project of modern architectural building of the Cultural Heritage Administration is a conceptual project, largely, by necessity. Therefore, specifically detailed regulations of the legal system are supposed to carry out the implementation of documentation of modern architectural building.
Secondly, it is suggested a general plan for a continuous documentation.
It intends to maintain the documentation of internal and external changes of modern architectural buildings, not as a disposable action and then to support it in connection with Cultural heritage administration, Local authorities, regional architectural offices, and modern architectural buildings-related departments of architecture and history in university. And giving attentions to other modern architectural buildings unregistered as cultural heritages, yet, a flexible documentation will be applied to, that is, documentation is supposed to be varied, depending on relative significance of buildings as a heritage.
And in conclusion, by setting up collection, an information service needs to be provided for the public. it is required to provide a specific information about changes of cultural heritages, through uninterrupted and progressive documentation and the development of metadata element for search tool development and photos & measured drawings-related information.