Conservation of historic buildings in the city of Medan (case study: Building warenhuis)

Conservation is an early concept of preservation of goods or historical regions that grow in urban areas with historical value and scarcity that will be used as conservation areas. One of the historic buildings in the city of Medan is Warenhuis. The history of Warenhuis’s cultural heritage was unforgettable as the times had to be further investigated about the feasibility of building warenhuis in conservation. Warenhuis, a building with history and becomes the image of the development of the city of Medan, needs to be conservation so that Warenhuis can be preserved and witnessed by the people today. The conservation at Warenhuis can see the historical history of the city’s tradeimage. The method has a qualitative descriptive type that intends to understand research objects such as behavior, perceptions, motivation, actions, etc. From the results of the analysis based on the judgment of the Burra Charter, it can be concluded that the Warenhuis Building is a decent building for conservation where this building meets several elements of the assessment with maximum results.