The Study of an Evaluation System of Modern Historic Infrastructures

The Case Study of Power Plant Dams

Abstract

There are 2 ways of evaluation in modern historic infrastructures. One is from the constructional point of view and the other is from the remains and sites point of view. The modern historic infrastructures were regarded as cultural properties about 10 years ago in Japan. But the evaluation of them is only limited from the constructional point of view. Therefore our study is trying to evaluate modern historic infrastructures from the remains and sites point of view. However many of them are still used, so there are some difficulties to evaluate them. We make an evaluation system for them and compare the difference between the constructional point and the remains and sites point.
We indicate the following results.
1. We can make an evaluation system for the modern historic remains and sites.
2. Our evaluation system is better to find a lot of the characteristics of the historic infrastructures than the constructional evaluation system, for our system has historic items and locational items of the infrastructures.
3. Visiting the sites, we could have and find many new facts. Our evaluation system can find many meanings of the historic infrastructures and produce many rich images of them. It would be helpful to make a city planning when reviving the historic infrastructures and heritages.