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The constant in architecture's evolution is change. Adaptive
Architecture explores structures, or environments that accommodate
multiple functions at the same time, sequentially, or at
periodically recurring events. It demonstrates how changing
technological, economic, ecological and social conditions have
altered the playing field for architecture from the design of
single purpose structures to the design of interacting systems of
synergistically interdependent, distributed buildings. Including
contributors from the US, UK, Japan, Australia, Germany and South
Africa, the essays are woven into a five-part framework which
provides a broad and unique treatment of this important and timely
issue.
The constant in architecture's evolution is change. Adaptive
Architecture explores structures, or environments that accommodate
multiple functions at the same time, sequentially, or at
periodically recurring events. It demonstrates how changing
technological, economic, ecological and social conditions have
altered the playing field for architecture from the design of
single purpose structures to the design of interacting systems of
synergistically interdependent, distributed buildings. Including
contributors from the US, UK, Japan, Australia, Germany and South
Africa, the essays are woven into a five-part framework which
provides a broad and unique treatment of this important and timely
issue.
The main aim of this book is to present an intriguing retrospective
of Building Performance Evaluation (BPE) as it evolved from
Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) over the past 25 years. On one
hand, this is done by updating original authors' chapter content of
Building Evaluation, the first edition published in 1989. That, in
turn, is augmented by an orientation toward current and future
practice on the other, including new authors who are engaged in
ongoing, cutting edge projects. Therefore, individual, methodology
oriented chapters covering the fundamental principles of POE and
BPE go along with major thematic chapters, topics of which like
sustainability or integration of new technologies are addressed in
a diversity of case studies from around the globe. Research,
methodologies, and framework of POEs continue to evolve. POEs are
one step, on the larger scale of BPE, in understanding how
buildings function after they are occupied. This resource helps a
rchitects, building owners, and facility managers understand the
implications and reactions to the facilities that they designed,
built and/or commissioned. By considering the whole process from
conception to future uses of the building, there can be a more
holistic approach to the planning, programming, design,
construction, occupancy, and future adaptability of the structure.
This book is dedicated to first editor Wolfgang F. E. Preiser who
passed away during the process of editing and reviewing chapters of
this volume.
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