A new method of mapping is developed. Starting with Renaissance mapping methods of Nolli (the plan of Rome) it has to be distinguished in the level of detail for representing strategic and common buildings. This can be well integrated into today's strategic planning, in which not all areas are treated equally, but depending on their strategic role. More recent mapping concepts in the physical space support this approach. Such are those from the 1960s: Kevin Lynch's approach (1960) and Guy Debord's derive (1955). They are relevant in reconstruction after disasters, in keeping the mental map of heritage habitat, a concept employed in the analysis of reconstruction after disasters of Modernist neighbourhoods in the doctorate work (Bostenaru, 2012). The mental map is given by the analysis of the settlement history of the villages around and the city of Carei as well as by field investigation during the project.

In my research I approach the impact of earthquakes at two different geographic scales, that of the building and that of the zone (neighborhood) to which it belongs, the building being part of the whole following fractal principles. The lessons learned at one scale lead to conclusions at the other scale following the procedure of regression. In the current work I approach these interdependencies at the geographic location of the Swabian villages around the city of Carei, in Sathmar County, Romania.

I set the difference between the traditional mapping for earthquake engineering and seismology which considers technical factors specific to common buildings, and the protection state for architectural value of the affected built environment in the approach proposed - which considers the representative buildings of churches. The digital representation methods, previously tried out for urban setting, in the central urban area of the interwar designed Magheru Boulevard in Bucharest, had to be adapted to the new regional planning scale.

For my research I envisage to use both technical data and methods for approaching vulnerability regarding the structure of the buildings and seismology, as well as historical studies regarding the architectural value of the buildings. The interdependency between the two is remarkable, reason for which a superposition was necessary. For the city of Carei and the surrounding villages, the historical archives of the churches and the central ones in Budapest contain data about the damages on churches which were reconstructed following the earthquake. I also discussed the development of the area with an art historian who graduated doctorate on the topic of the Karolyi mecenate (Bara, 2013). The damages on churches can be evaluated with the macro-elements method of Sergio Lagomarsino to establish the vulnerability and thus is resulted the dialogue with the urban scale at the level of affecting the built environment of localities. Also the method of identifying macro-elements is a result of the dialogue between structural mechanics and statistics.

The method was applied at the level of churches as landmarks, following the principles of Kevin Lynch and Debord from 1960s theory and of strategic planning of the 1980s, instead of considering the common buildings to determine macroseismic intensity as in the studies of Zsiros on the seismology of the Érmellék earthquake from 1983. The above mentioned studies promote urban studies areas not treated equally, but more relevant ones are treated in more detail to spread as pilot projects to the rest, including based on the memory information they inherit.

Nevertheless, I will also present the model of the common building of the Swabians (the German immigrants), after the World Housing Encyclopedia model - model common also with buildings affected by Banat earthquakes.