The Appearance of Being Done Poorly: Preservation of Only a Facade

A scene demonstrating a mistake: an old building with only its front wall supported by a steel frame, the rear completely demolished to build a high-rise. The new building's volume overwhelms the old facade, turning the old wall into a decoration attached to the new structure. This is often criticized as 'facadism'. Avoid: presenting this scene as a positive example, assuming that preserving the facade equates to preservation, allowing the volume ratio between old and new to be so imbalanced that the old wall is swallowed, ignoring that the interior space itself is also an object of preservation.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一個示範錯誤的畫面:老建築只剩正面那一片牆被鋼架撐著,後方整個拆空蓋起一棟高樓,新樓體量壓在老立面上方,老牆變成貼在新建築前的裝飾。這是常被批評的立面主義。避免:把這個畫面當成正面示範、以為保留立面就等於保存、讓新舊的量體比例失衡到老牆被吞沒、忽略室內空間本身也是保存的對象。