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Building in existing fabric requires more than practical solutions
and stylistic skills. The adaptive reuse of buildings, where
changes in the structure go along with new programs and functions,
poses the fundamental question of how the past should be included
in the design for the future. On the background of long years of
teaching and publishing, and using vivid imagery from Frankenstein
to Rem Koolhaas and beyond, the author provides a comprehensive
introduction to architectural design for adaptive reuse projects.
History and theory, building typology, questions of materials and
construction, aspects of preservation, urban as well as interior
design are dealt with in ways that allow to approach adaptive reuse
as a design practice field of its own right.
Liliane Wong's latest volume on adaptive reuse in architecture
presents 50 spectacular conversion and reuse projects worldwide,
including buildings such as the TWA Hotel at NewYork's John F.
Kennedy Airport, the CaixaForum in Madrid, and the New Museum in
Berlin. The projects are presented using a new classification
system that addresses practitioners as well as academics. The
author's introductory essay provides a comprehensive overview and
historical context for the enormous evolution and expansion of
adaptive reuse over the past 50 years.
Libraries as a building type have been subjected to substantial
changes in particular in the past ten years. Milestones such as Rem
Koolhaas' Seattle Central Library from 2004 reinvented the typology
completely and reflected a development from elitist temple of
learning to a public living room. Hybrids between library and
department store or theater were conceived. Today, the ubiquity of
electronic devices and media needs to be taken into account by the
designer: every new library has areas without any books now. This
work of reference explains systematically all technological and
planning requirements of library design. Special features such as
RFID, signage, acoustics or specific structural load issues are
explained in texts by experts from the fields of architecture and
library science. Finally, approximately 40 best-practice case
studies of contemporary library design are documented extensively.
They are organized in four categories - national libraries, large
public libraries, small public libraries, university libraries -
and comprise high-profile examples such as Jo Coenen's Openbare
Bibliotheek Amsterdam, Alvaro Siza's Public Library Viana do
Castelo in Portugal or Mecanoo's Library of Birmingham from 2013.
Adaptive reuse is a design practice where changes in the building
structure go along with new programs and functions. Many concerns
of the day that are the hallmark of current social discourse can
equally be communicated through the vocabulary of design and reuse.
Six common themes mirroring those of society in the new millennium
are discernable in the current adaptive reuse practice:
appropriation, ecology, equity, memory & redemption, identity
and authenticity. Selected articles from the IntAR Interventions
and Adaptive Reuse Journal of the last ten years speak to the
social issues of the recent decade. The introductory essay
positions shifting norms of working from home or remote learning in
the light of their revision through adaptive reuse, for example the
post-pandemic repercussions on office towers and the classroom.
Design interventions for the reuse of existing structures must face
the question of the past and the extent to which it should be
included in the design for the future. This is the point of
departure of Int|AR, a yearly publication on current issues in
international adaptive reuse. Can architectural interventions
become actions in the sense of interventions in art or civic
involvement? Which forms are conceivable in design, building and
representation of architecture? Where are the boundaries to
performances and similar other forms of interventions? This Int|AR
volume presents essays, built or unbuilt projects and ideas that
investigate undiscovered potentials in building in existing fabric.
A handbook on the design and the planning of libraries - a
particularly prestigious design task that underwent significant
changes in recent years. Comprehensive contributions by experts
from architecture and library science analyze specific aspects of
the building type; a typology of some 40 exemplary international
projects provides inspiration and a range of options.
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