Review of Analytical Tools and Design Approaches in Architectural Heritage Higher Education: Sharing HERSUS Project Experiences

Abstract

This paper builds on the experiences of the Erasmus+ project titled Enhancing of Heritage Awareness and Sustainability of Built Environment in Architectural and Urban Design Higher Education (HERSUS), coordinated by the University of Belgrade - Faculty of Architecture as a leading higher education institution, with partner institutions of Universita Iuav di Venezia, University of Cyprus – Department of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki – School of Architecture and the University of Sevilla – UNESCO Chair on Built Urban Heritage CREhAR in the digital era. The paper will provide systematic review of analytical tools and design approches derived from the Statements for teaching through design for sustainability of the built environment and heritage awareness (Third Intellectual Output of HERSUS Project). The Design Tools implies a driving and operational element of a design process applied systemically to achieve a design goal and solve a design problem. Although very often considered exclusively as a technical and procedural entity of design, Tools have become both social instruments in the design process (collaborative Tools) and a digital innovation in design (3D and simulation Tools), thus significantly contributing to the contemporary practice of architectural heritage research encouraging an entirely new view of its analysis, valorisation, documentation, and redesign.