%0 Journal Article
%T Advantages and disadvantages of refurbished building within the Łódź cultural heritage
%A Olenderek, Joanna
%A Olenderek, Maciej
%J Housing Environment
%V 2017
%R 10.4467/25438700SM.17.004.7594
%N 18/2017
%P 30-38
%K on, light, architecture, refurbishing, downtown, Łódź
%@ 1731-2442
%D 2017
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/srodowisko-mieszkaniowe/article/advantages-and-disadvantages-of-refurbished-building-within-the-lodz-cultural-heritage
%X 
	How to design within the framework of the existing XIXth century buildings in the eternal city, the city which was created to maximize factory and tenement owners profits. As part of restoring the post-industrial city space, fulfilling the PROREVITA programme directives, the authors attempted to find new innovative design solutions to the problem of light in architecture. The article presents the research process to the final solutions – to answer what is light, its role and how to solve real problems in difficult places, such as city tenement yard-wells. There was na attempt to systematize the hierarchy of needs in the shape of a directory of needed processes and further solutions in similar spatial situations. At the same time the areas most important for spatial effects and cultural values in the framework of the process of using light to reveal new historical building values and qualified as Łódź architectural heritage resource.