Evaluating the Changes and Impacts of Heritage Building to Small Hotel Building: A Case Study of Bangkok Story Hostel | Chapter 1 | New Horizons in Education and Social Studies Vol. 10

 Adaptive reuse of old buildings converted into hotels has become increasingly common in Thailand, especially in Bangkok, over the last decade. AR-HB-hotel, an Adaptive Reuse Heritage Building converted to a Hotel Building, has a variety of consequences and impacts. There are proven requirements for major renovations, business investment, and determining the worth of heritage buildings, but no consideration has been given to the effect on the local community. The importance of heritage buildings is a major concern that we must recognise because they are worth saving. Heritage is valued for a number of reasons, including economic, political, cultural, spiritual, and aesthetic considerations. The aim is to investigate four aspects of the AR-HB-hotel: (1) physical, (2) economic, (3) value shifts, and (4) social consequences. A mixed qualitative and quantitative analysis was used in the research. The ‘Bangkok Story Hostel' was chosen as an example of AR-HB-hotel. This small 3-story heritage hotel is located on Songward Street in Bangkok's Sampanthawong district, in a traditional trading district. Secondary data, surveys, and in-depth interviews were used to gather information on the building's past and project context, as well as physical and economic changes. In-depth interviews and questionnaires were used to gather information on value change and social effects. The findings revealed that the building's physical, economic, and value improvements increased, while its social effect remained the same or decreased slightly less than before the renovation. Although the four main approaches for exploring physical, economic, value, and social issues, as well as the procedure used in this study, cannot be fully generalised to another case with a substantially different context, the four main approaches and the procedure used in this study may serve as a guideline for future studies of AR-HB-hotel changes and impacts.

Author (s) Details

Chotewit Pongsermpol
Faculty of Architecture, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL), Bangkok, Thailand.

Prapatpong Upala
Faculty of Architecture, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL), Bangkok, Thailand.

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Applied Study on Using of GIS Technology for Conservation of the Ottoman Bathroom and Its Urban Surrounding in Qena—Egypt | Chapter 11 | International Research in Environment, Geography and Earth Science Vol. 6

 

In Qena Region, the Bathroom area suffers from urban, social and economic issues, adversely affecting one of the most prominent Islamic buildings (the Ottoman Bathroom). In the current research, the technique of Geographic Information Systems ( GIS) was selected to determine the current state of the Ottoman Bathroom and its urban surroundings within Qena Region. The urban, economic , and social status of the urban environment of the bathroom was carried out in three categories of the assessment. The spatial database was designed to track and analyse spatial and descriptive data on the surrounding area of the bathroom; the study findings revealed that the residential buildings were heavily damaged. Samples were obtained from various locations in the bathroom, examined with EDX analytical methods by Scanning Electron Microscopy ( SEM) and X-Ray Diffraction (XRD). Previous studies have shown that there is crystallised salt in the pores of bricks, micro-cracks, and losses in the internal structure of construction materials. The paper concludes that the GIS technique is an effective method for the rehabilitation of the Ottoman Bathroom and the surrounding area, with the need to reuse the bathroom in the same old function in order to maintain, revitalise and benefit it in Qena City's tourism growth. In addition to determining the key roads to enter the region, where the GIS technique is used to determine the boundaries of the macro and micro background of the old Qena city, architecture maps of the region In addition to the construction of databases for the modernization of facilities and the conceptualization of utilities areas to be carried out in the vicinity of the toilet, sewerage, drinking water, power delivery, and communication lines networks.

Author (s) Details

Dr. Essam H. Mohamed
Archaeological Conservation Department, Faculty of Archaeology, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt.

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