How to Use the Metaverse to Preserve Historic Buildings

Imagine that you have scheduled a visit to an important building for the history of architecture, a reference work for all enthusiasts. Probably you would equip yourself with a camera or a good cell phone, take a pencil, notebook and even a measuring tape to record all its aspects.

Theodore Prudon: ‘Modernism Has Never Been a Popular Movement’

This article was originally published on Common Edge.

BD House / Space Encounters + Studio Vincent Eschalier

In the quaint village of Bergen, a modest white villa from the 1950s proved technically and structurally no longer sound for contemporary wishes and demands for living. Yet, after its new occupants, a young family had lived in the dwelling for a number of weeks, the house proved to be so characteristic that they decided to renovate and extend it, rather than demolish the house.

Bon Pastor 54 Social Housing Units / Peris+Toral.arquitectes

The Remodelling Plan for the neighborhood of Bon Pastor anticipates the demolition of the 784 Casas Baratas (cheap houses) on the estate that was built in 1929, and their replacement by freestanding blocks to rehouse all of their occupants. The planning structure of single-story houses and the closeness of the neighbors produced a form of community life that gave the district the atmosphere of a village within the city, with lots of life in the street.

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