World Heritage – Glass Façades and Climate Change

Abstract

<p>Architectural monuments are a vivid picture of history and play an important role for the identity of the society. Energetic enhancement and climate change mitigation presents a major challenge to architectural monuments. As a part of building stock they cannot escape from this problem. This paper describes the energetic renovation of two significant monuments. It includes a description of the buildings as well as a variety of solutions and their practical implementation. The conflict between both, an energetic renovation and a sensitive handling with historical landmarks leads to new developments and concepts. These results can be transferred to comparable buildings.</p>