Aims and Objectives | Principle of Adaptive Reuse

The aims of this seminar are:

To educate students to understand general issues and definitions on the work of existing structures.
To encourage students to think deeply, critically about relationships of design, sustainability, management and economy within adaptive reuse.
To help students analyze rational for the intervention on existing structures.
To connect and reframe the students former education on issues of structure, building systems, codes, energy, design, sustainability as well as urban issues.
To understand advantages and disadvantages of adaptive reuse within the context of architecture.
To gain experience in active, constructive discussions with peers, specialists and building officials

On completion of this studio, students should be able to:

Demonstrate the ability to conduct interdisciplinary and responsible research.
Understand the basic issues on feasibility criteria for adaptive reuse.
Understand the principles of the IEBC.
Communicate issues of preservation, conservation and adaptation in the context of design.
Bridge their knowledge from their undergraduate education with the principles of adaptive reuse.
Understand cultural-, technical, economical- and sustainability issues related to building adaptation.
Appreciate the virtues of interdisciplinar working content and conditions.
To understand how existing conditions of buildings-, site-, urban- and historic context influence decision making on building interventions.