Open house program as educational activities and awareness campaigns for local resource management

Abstract

Open House is a program, where multiple houses are open to the public simultaneously within a specific area. This research focuses on this program held in Japan and analyses what organisers are aiming at through it and how they approach relevant stakeholders. As a result, it reveals that at an Open House a variety type of events are normally arranged in order to promote totality of architecture and life and work and area value created based on architecture and to provide an opportunity for multiple stakeholders to be involved in local resources management utilising building stocks.