Restoration of the Interior

The Paintwork and the Colours of the Exterior

The Restoration of the Exterior

Introduction

Indoor climate in the Rietveld Schröder house

The Rietveld Schröder House is not only an icon of Dutch architecture, but also a museum welcoming about 18,000 visitors each year. The unusual experimental character of the construction and the fact that the house is open to the public<br/>can be expected to affect the indoor climate and to pose some risks for the conservation of the building...

Kyoto's Landscape: A close look at the Meirin District

Sanjo Street, the old road to Tokyo, is a lively street in the middle of Meirin District in the heart of Kyoto. People live, work, shop and stroll there. The street, like all others in the district, is made up of houses and shops, restaurants, workshops and kinds of activity. The neighbourhood is well known for the many kimono fabrics, but there...

Debates on History and Heritage between East and West

The collaboration between KIT and TU Delft started out with the central theme of machiya, a traditional type of wooden townhouse, known in Kyoto as kyomachiya. Rather than Kyoto’s pre-eminent monuments like shrines, temples or one of the 17 world heritage sites, the vernacular architecture of the kyomachia seemed to be the ideal study subject,...

Adapting Traditional Machiya to a Contemporary Lifestyle

This chapter presents an analysis of adaptations of machiya, traditional Japanese townhouses, in Kyoto. The study aims to develop models for future reuse of machiya that combine contemporary lifestyles and traditional characteristics, in order to present possibilities for the preservation of machiya. The models for reuse are based on an...

Pradijsvogel met vuurvogels

The chapter describes the Chair Collection of the faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment of Delft Technical University. It summarizes the history of the collection and its use in education. A set of furniture based on Talasjkino designs is the focal point of the text.