Historic centre Chorá on the island of Pátmos, Greece

The Chorá of Pátmos, one of the best preserved and oldest of the Aegean Chorá, is settled in one of the highest point of the island of Pátmos, about 200 m above the sea. It is characterised by compact, whitewashed volumes, terraces that fit together and adapt to the morphology of the ground.In the framework of 3DPAST project, the research on Patmos was developed in two main phases. The first part of the research concerned the analysis of the tangible components of the architectural heritage of the Chorá of Pátmos: the urban structure, the evolution of the main architectural typologies and the feature of the main building systems. The second part was focused on the risk analysis on heritage and the assessment of the impacts on the heritage, adopting the HIA (Heritage Impact Assessment) method.