Hope, fear, recognition and the need to share are the very strong feelings that have long encouraged people to build. Often modest, sometimes very isolated, rural chapels bear witness to this ancient effort to inhabit a territory, to live in a territory.
But who pays any real attention to this ‘small heritage’, the ones we come across on our street corners, in our communes, or even our towns? These buildings are often largely ignored, abandoned or in a state of disrepair.
How can we do them justice? How can we help local authorities to reinvest in them, restore them as common property and pass them on to future generations? By combining several disciplines – architecture, history and sound perception – Jean-Yves Blaise is teaching us to rediscover them. He and his colleagues have developed a specific protocol to determine the sound signature of around fifteen buildings, so that they can be enhanced.
With Jean-Yves Blaise (CNRS), Architect and computer scientist at the Models and Simulations for Architecture and Heritage Laboratory (MAP – CNRS).
This research and this podcast were funded in whole or in part by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR).
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