Vietnam, Japan discuss traditional wooden architecture
(VOV) - Vietnamese and Japanese experts have gathered for a workshop on traditional wooden architecture in the preservation of architectural relics in the former imperial city of Hue.
The workshop, the first of its kind, was jointly organized in Hue on November 12 by the Hue Monuments Conservation Centre (HMCC), the UNESCO World Heritage Institute at Japan’s Waseda University and the Japan Architects’ Association.
Participants said that traditional wooden architecture plays an important role in the Hue monument architectural system, stressing that thorough understanding of materials, manipulating methods, structures and factors that affect wooden architectural works is an important foundation for the conservation and restoration of relics.
The two sides shared experiences and proposed measures to conserve wooden architectural works, as the Hue relics are badly affected by global climate change.
Waseda University is coordinating with HMCC to study the restoration of the war-torn Can Chanh Palace, which was the second largest - after Thai Hoa Palace - in the Imperial Palace.
The ODA-funded project is estimated to cost US$10 million and is expected for completion in five years.