The methodology of inheriting the traditional townscape by “Re-use†the heritage buildings -Through sharing the case studies in Japan and India -

  • Authors

    • Takashi Ono
    2018-01-04
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i1.4.9032
  • Re-use, Townscape, Heritage building, Conservation, Restore

  • This paper is to share the experience in case studies of Japan and India through focusing on the succession of the townscape based on the architectural ‘re-use’. It has tended in Japan in recent years in order to solve the serious issue of the vacant residences in rural area.

    To begin with, based on the historian Kato’s idea, the architectural manner divides three things; re-use, re-development and restoration/conservation. He insists that the architectural manner and the value of re-use were replaced by two concept of "re-development" or "preservation" that suddenly appeared in modern but still effective.

    The researching place is selected following three cities; Obuse Town and Azumino City in Japan and Shimla in India. In case of Obuse, we made full use of existing properties of the town by re-using the space which has abandoned so far. And in case of Azumino, we can introduce the re-using building by changing the usage while utilizing the feature of the traditional houses.

    This paper just introduces the present situation of the architectural re-use of Shimla because we are going on the survey on the site, and the concrete analyzing will be discussed in the next paper.

  • References

    1. [1] A. Funakoshi, Master’s Thesis: “Study on the reuse of traditional vacant residences in the rural area in Azumino Cityâ€, Tokyo: Tokyo University of Science, 2012 [in Japanese].

      [2] ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on 20th Century Heritage, “Madrid document: approaches for the conservation of twenth-century architectural heritageâ€, 2011.

      [3] K. Kato, Architecture in Time: Survival of buildings through history and social change, Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 2017, pp. 15–64 [in Japanese].

      [4] M. Kawamukai and the Obuse Machizukuri Institute, A University in the Town, the Town as a University, Tokyo: Shoukoku-sya, 2014 [in Japanese].

      [5] N. Nakao, “The coincidence of the distribution area of Honmune style minka and the territory of the Shinano Ogasawara Family†, Journal of Architecture and Planning, vol.71, issue 603, pp.147-154, Architectural Institute of Japan, 2006 [in Japanese].

      [6] Obuse Machizukuri Institute, Annual report 2005, Tokyo: Obuse Machizukuri Institute, 2005.

      [7] T. Katsumata, Doctor’s Thesis: “The studies on the mechanism and its elements of the modern silkworm houses based on the analyzation of sericultural books†, Tokyo: Tokyo University of Science, 2012 [in Japanese].

      [8] Y. Yoshihiro, Bachelor’s Thesis: “Study on the preservation of historial architecture in the hill station – Through the survey of the heritage building in Heritage zone of Shimlaâ€, Tokyo: Tokyo University of Science, 2016 [in Japanese].

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    Ono, T. (2018). The methodology of inheriting the traditional townscape by “Re-use” the heritage buildings -Through sharing the case studies in Japan and India -. International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 7(1.4), 27-32. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i1.4.9032