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Podcast: Seek Sustainable Japan
Episode: Japan's MINKA houses design for style & safety | talking with architect Miroslav Bachura
Description: Miroslav Bachura is an architect-designer who is originally from Slovakia, now based in Shizuoka Japan. Here he talks about how to properly reuse Minka traditional Japanese houses and materials to be both stylish, cost effective, safe and more sustainable. Watch the talk with Miro here to see all the great pictures we refer to in this talk.Miro is now working for the Sozosya (Sozosha) architectural design company focused on building renovations, machizukuri, and local urban development projects. https://sozosya.co.jp/00:00 Welcome01:05 Miro's Backstory 05:18 Heritage & Sustainable Design07:30 Minka Summit 2024 talk summary08:40 Before Renovation...