Restoration and preservation of the authentic traditional housing model. Case study - the peasant house in the Danube Delta area

The paper develops a new concept, relatively unique in approaching the concept of rehabilitation of the peasant house at the beginning of the XXI century, namely the traditional architecture of the Danube Delta as a system of integrated research, preservation of cultural and historical values. As it is known, the Vernacular Heritage Charter, ratified in 1999 in Mexico, draws attention to the fact that vernacular architecture around the world is valuable and requires protection, positive attitude in preserving, preserving and transmitting technologies, materials, architecture combined with authentic elements can even unique. This valuable built fund is increasingly subject to the pressures generated by urbanization, globalization (a phenomenon that affects local specificity) and lack of information or interest. The vernacular architecture of the Delta area was executed empirically, within the community using local materials, techniques and traditional crafts is what the Austrian American architect Bernard Rudofsky called it, in the title of his 1964 book, "Architecture without architects". The heritage reflected in the built environment of the villages in the Delta belongs to a type of vernacular architecture, and, of course, shares the general characteristics of the genre: a close communion with the natural landscape and the society in which it was "born" . If we talk about contemporary ideology in architecture, in the context of very present discourses on sustainable development and sustainability (in absolutely all areas). The paper presents two approaches; high-tech, which supports the use of modern materials and advanced technology in construction and the low-tech approach, which aims at methods and techniques with low impact on the environment. The authors detail the concept of restoration corresponding to traditional materials and technologies.