Facade retention is the process of maintaining a building’s external character whilst removing its obsolete internal elements. This is the best way to preserve an older building’s character whilst ensuring that it can once again serve a valuable purpose.
Whether you’re building a brand new dwelling, or creating a space for commercial or public application, you can most certainly keep the building’s original facade. It will preserve the older building’s architectural beauty whilst providing new purpose for a space that might otherwise go unused!
With this in mind, here are five benefits of facade retention for obsolete buildings:
It preserves the building’s architectural heritage
First class facade retention ensures that many Australian buildings maintain their architectural heritage. Australian cities and towns are replete with beautiful historic buildings that time has rendered obsolete. Unfortunately, these buildings not only go unoccupied or unused, but to even try to occupy or create use in them could be extremely dangerous.
However, this doesn’t mean you have to demolish the building’s stunning exterior. Instead, you can hire professionals to remove the building’s internal elements, ensuring that you have a space that can be fully utilised whilst looking amazing on the outside.
It preserves a neighbourhood’s local character
Many Aussies don’t like the new architectural styles that have come through in the 21st Century, preferring some of the beautiful architectural heritage found in their neighbourhoods and others. For many, they would prefer to see a building’s exterior preserved as opposed to the whole building being demolished in place of something modern and, for many, unsightly.
As such, this solution ensures that a neighbourhood’s architectural heritage can be preserved. Architecture plays a huge role in defining an area’s cultural history, and instead of demolishing that imperative history, you can actually preserve it and help it evolve.
Keep the exterior whilst creating more internal space
Many older buildings had grand exteriors without all the interior space. For buildings that have a beautiful exterior but without the internal space, this solution can be perfect. It ensures that you can keep the elegant exterior whilst creating far more space for dwellings or commercial/public application.
This is perfect for heritage buildings located in high-demand areas as it ensures more housing can be built for people looking to live and work in a more convenient location (something which is becoming a rarity these days!).
It provides new purpose to an obsolete building
Because many older buildings are beautiful but unsafe to occupy. They may have become derelict over time, and this is only natural when you consider many Aussie buildings were constructed in the 19th Century. Even if the buildings themselves aren’t actually dangerous to enter, they could simply be rendered obsolete, with dysfunctional, unpleasant internal elements that are incredibly difficult to rectify.
As such, many property owners choose to build modern, stylish designs in what would otherwise be an unusable structure. You can ensure the space’s safety whilst providing it with a brand new purpose.
They create a new building style
For many architecture lovers, facade retention is a way of evolving elegant-but-obsolete buildings. This has helped create a new style of building, a harmonious blend between old and new, and a kind of style that is becoming ubiquitous to Australian construction.
You don’t have to knock down what is a complex and intricate design created by crafters of a bygone era – you can create a wonderful new style whilst maintaining its original beauty!
