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CONTENTS

Lesson 1

Conservation and Revitalization of

Architecture
What is Conservation? What is Revitalization?
Methods of Building Conservation

Class activity

Role Play

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Lesson 1
What is conservation?
What is revitalization?

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Introduction to Conservation and

Revitalization
Do you know these historic buildings?
What is special about them?
Why do we need to conserve them?
What is their relationship with us?

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Kom Tong Hall (Sun Yat-Sen Museum), Mid-levels

Completion year: 1894
Declared monument historic building
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Blue House, Wanchai

Completion year: 1920s
Grade 1 historic building
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Tsang Tai Uk, Shatin

Completion year: 1867
Grade 1 historic building
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 Curry Tse
Former Marine Police Headquarters Compound,
Tsim Sha Tsui (1881 Heritage)
Completion year: 1884
Declared monument
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Hong Kong City Hall

Completion year: 1960s
Grade 1 historic building
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Conservation
is all the processes of looking after a place so as to retain its cultural
significance.
It includes maintenance and according to circumstances may include
preservation, restoration, reconstruction and adaption and will be
commonly a combination of more than one of these.

Source: Australia ICOMOS. The Burra Charter: The Australia ICOMOS Charter for Places of Cultural
Significance. Burwood: Australia International Council of Monuments and Sites. 1999.

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Revitalization
to conserve existing (sometimes historic) buildings or districts while
putting them into good use.

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How does revitalization

benefit the society?

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Methods of Building Conservation

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Methods of
building conservation
Preservation

Reconstruction

Maintenance

Restoration

Adaptation

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Preservation
To maintain the fabric of a place in its existing state
and retarding deterioration.

Example:
Hong Kong Observatory 1883 Building
Year of completion: 1883

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Maintenance
Continuous protective care of fabric
and setting of a place, and to be
distinguished from repair, repair
involves restoration or reconstruction

Example:
Main Building, the University of Hong Kong
Year of completion: 1912

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Restoration
Returning to a known earlier state
without the introduction of new
materials

Architectural Services
Department, HKSAR

Example:
Kom Tong Hall (Dr. Sun Yat-sen Museum)
Former residence of Ho Kom Tong and later the headquarters
of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Year of completion: 1894
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Reconstruction

Returning to a known earlier state

Introduction of new materials

Information Services Department

Example:
Murray House
Former office quarters of Murray Barracks in Central
Year of completion: 1846
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Adaptation

Change in function
Introduction of new materials

Leisure and Cultural

Services Department

Example:
Yau Ma Tei Theatre in 1990 and 2011

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[Discussion]
What are the pros and cons, constraints and effects of each method?

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Summary
Conservation is the process of looking after a place or
building so as to retain its cultural significance.
Revitalization is to conserve existing (sometimes historic)
buildings or districts by putting them in good use.
Five methods of building conservation include
Preservation, Maintenance, Restoration, Reconstruction
and Adaptation

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Class Activity Role Play

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Class Activity - Role Play

Identify a historic building or any old building in
the nearby area which faces the threat of
demolition.
Step 1- Separate the class into groups.
Each student should play the role of a
stakeholder.

Step 2- What is the target of

redevelopment?
Name of the building?
Where is it?
When is the year of construction?
What is the current use of the building?
Proposed use?

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