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Establishment of Material Depots

In many towns and settlements, a number of dilapidated buildings exist, each containing materials that can be reused. It is a good idea to collect these materials in depots for future use.

In the future, we should establish material depots in every town and settlement where people can retrieve or purchase used building materials for the maintenance and repair of the old building culture.

You can place these depots near the local museum, inside museum buildings, or at municipal construction sites.

Tradition

In the past, moving a building to a different geographic location or another town was common. These buildings hold great value, both in the form of high-quality wood and materials that are unavailable today, and in terms of cultural history and the building's originality.

A large portion of a building's main structure features numbering. Before shipping from Norway or Denmark, builders assembled the building, numbered the structural parts with Roman numerals, disassembled it again, and then transported the parts to Greenland. You can still see these Roman numerals on post or rafter structures if you look closely, especially if you have access to the attics of old buildings.

In many towns and settlements, a number of old buildings have lost their use and stand without function today. People could advantageously move these buildings to other locations, reconstruct them to give them a renaissance, or carefully dismantle them to reuse the building parts for the restoration of other cultural-historical buildings in the country

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