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Services
Since 1996 Georgia Wittmaack has been advising constructors and owners of cultural heritage, who seek to renovate or comple-
ment their buildings by the use of historical material. She also provides a service to those who want to build new homes using historical or artificially aged materials to create a contrasting mixture of styles.
Habitarte* obtains original objects from auctions, demolitions and private estates. We take care of export licences, transport and professional reassembly. Moreover, we can provide handmade replicas of originals. Now let yourself be inspired by taking a look at our comprehensive collection of pictures...
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The recycling of building materials is as old a technique as building itself.
Almost daily during their work, monument conservators, architects and workmen identify materials in historical buildings which do not comply with the era of construction.
Architectural heritage is an irreplaceable document of the wealth and the diversity of human culture.
Conservation of cultural assets to show evidence of ancient handicraft and early industrial production, selective renaturalisation and professional reassembly are issues of topmost priority.
(International Council on monuments and Sites in cooperation mit denkmal 98: Zur Wiederverwendung histori-
scher Bauteile, R. Leonhardt)
The new trend in construction defines itself simply as follows:
Recourse to classical values embodied in the form of historical building elements.
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