Talk:Building restoration
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[edit] Should the term "restoration" be included in this article topic?
With apologies to the creator of this article, "restoration" is being used in a lay-person's context with respect to historic buildings and inaccurately portrays interventions in a simplistic manner.
The definition of restoration within the context of the built environment is an intervention whose goal is to return a building or landscape to a particular state as it (hypothetically) existed in the past. It has a specific meaning that is not being properly used in this article. Intervention methods could include preservation, restoration, rehabilitation, renovation, or reconstruction (or variations on these terms). They are ranked as to the degree of alteration to the historic fabric of the building of landscape. The section on "heritage restoration" correctly begins with the proper definition of restoration, and then diverges into what is really a rehabilitation--"a part of heritage restoration can involve the replacement of outdated heating and cooling systems with newer ones." A rehabilitation places use value above historic or age value in its accommodation of modern uses.
This article should really be under the rubric of "building conservation" or "architectural conservation," not "building restoration". Tous ensemble 16:57, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
