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The loss of the "beautiful old" is seen as an aesthetic diminution, and historically created and poorly closed building gaps are experienced as a permanent "flaw in the cityscape". [6] The reconstruction of buildings is often controversial among architects and preservationists. There are different motives and values.
Fenton Tower, East Lothian, a restored tower house where thorough archaeological recording took place. [1]The restoration of castles and tower houses in Scotland, generally by private individuals and families, has been taking place for over a century [2] [verification needed] and is of major significance in the field of historic buildings in the country, and sometimes a subject of controversy.
Reconstruction, "establishes limited opportunities to re-create a non-surviving site, landscape, building, structure, or object in all new materials." [4] Other nations recognize some or all of these as potential treatments for historic structures. Canada recognizes preservation, rehabilitation, and restoration.
Reconstructed crannog on Loch Tay, Scotland. A roundhouse is a type of house with a circular plan, usually with a conical roof. In the later part of the 20th century, modern designs of roundhouse eco-buildings were constructed with materials such as cob, cordwood or straw bale walls and reciprocal frame green roofs.
The origins of boxed construction is unknown. The term box-frame was used in a reconstruction manual in 1868 after the American Civil War. [19] Box house may also be a nickname for Classic Box or American Foursquare architectural styles in North America, and is also not to be confused with a general type of timber framing called a box frame.
The Neolithic long house was a long, narrow timber dwelling built by the Old Europeans in Europe beginning at least as early as the period 6000 to 5000 BC. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] They first appeared in central Europe in connection with the early Neolithic cultures such as the Linear Pottery culture or Cucuteni culture .
A reconstruction of a pit-house type dwelling constructed by pre-historic man attributed to Cro-Magnon with mammoth bones. Reconstruction based on the example of Mezhirich , upper paleolitic site. Exhibit in the National Museum of Nature and Science , Tokyo , Japan .