ABSTRACT
Environment), participation of several partners (Italy: University of Ferrara, Department of Architecture; University of Padua, Department of Structural and Transportation Engineering; Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics of Trieste; Chile: Valparaíso Technical University Federico Santa Maria, Civil Works Department; Santiago University of Chile, Division Structures Constructions Geotechnics), and support of local stakeholders. Being Valparaíso included since 2003 in the UNESCO Word Heritage List of protected sites, the project main goals are the following: to collect, analyze and elaborate the existing information, with a satisfying evaluation of main hazards; to develop a GIS digital archive, well organized, user-friendly and easy to be implemented in the future, with maps and scenarios of specific and multiple risk; to provide a vulnerability analysis for three historical churches (La Matríz, San Francisco del Baron, Las Hermanitas de la Providencia, made
by various materials – masonry, concrete, wood and adobe – and located in different city sites) and for a building stock in the Cerro Cordillera (partially inside the UNESCO area), analyzing more than 200 constructions; to suggest guidelines for future urban planning and strengthening interventions.
