The Protective Concept And Practice Of Historic Buildings

Historical buildings are important component parts of Chinese historical legacy. It is also the gem of the traditional Chinese culture. Nowadays, in a globalized environment, the issue of how to protect and reuse historical buildings and meanwhile maintain their value for historical and cultural research has increasingly aroused concerns of the architecture and the whole society. By protecting the historical buildings, we can not only explore abundant values of history, art and science, but also make the value of historical buildings accepted by the communities. So, for some historic buildings that protected and admitted by nation or some with retained value but not classified as the national protection, we can’t just protect them to achieve the purpose of appreciation and visiting for people. But we should explore its intension and research to find the value of them so that we can achieve the innovation of protection. And for innovation of historic buildings conservation, we ought to consider more of recycling of them. Reuse of historic buildings can let us preserve cultural historical facts on condition of not affecting the mass development of new construction, and allows us to reduce the fraction in culture because of new constructions. In addition, the reuse of historical buildings has the advantages of giving attention to past, present and future. At the same time, the way of reuse can also reduce pollution of the environment because of construction waste, and reduce the pressure on traffic and energy in the process of protection, which is in line with our pursuit of sustainable development. It is also accommodate requests of the ustainable development.Now, we will integrate a structure of historic interest---San-Sheng Temple of Ping Yao. First of all, we should understand its history, culture and architectural scene and dig its intrinsic value so that we can protect and repair it well. Second, we will put in order and map San-Sheng Temple’s all kinds of background, construction data, building sketch decoration and so on, and repair it by historical data and the historical construction style to restore its true original style. So that the reuse of the San-Sheng Temple is fully implemented.Therefore, our repair work of historic buildings should be not only careful but also complete. Only good restoration scheme can make the value of historic buildings reflect more perfect.