Advantages Of Adaptive Reuse

In total, 18 buildings will be demolished and five new buildings are to replace them. These changes have been in the works for many years, even though construction only started close to a year ago.

are afraid to build any new buildings if in a few years those too will be taken

How successful has the regeneration of urban areas been given the variety of ways it has been undertaken (40 marks)

Furthermore, the Town House (O) is a sustainable environmental design project illustrating the relationship between human well-being, the welfare of the future generations and the natural world, through regeneration, the

Construction of the city consumes minimal resources because the assets already present are conserved rather than destroyed. The houses themselves, although “unpainted and patched” are simple but effective structures. This shows how rather than dwelling on superfluous aesthetics, the older generation devotes itself to more fruitful endeavors. For example, residences sport compost heaps. The implementation of such devices preserves and recycles many resources, further emphasizing the conservative ideology of the older generation. While their practical lifestyle is compared to “savagery” by the younger generation, the city of the old generation is really an example of their efficiency.

For too long architecture has been synonymous with creating and building things - new things, and it is time for that narrow scope to be redefined to include the redesigning of already existing structures. In densely populated cities such as New York because of issues such as cost and space availability, the average architect might end up working renovation projects rather than full scale new built projects and this is where adaptive reuse comes into play. Adaptive reuse as defined by Burchell and Listokin is “a process of revitalization that utilize a sequence of simultaneous methods of planning, making inventory, acquiring, managing and reusing surplus of abandoned real estate .” But more than that, adaptive reuse has economical, historical

Jane Jacobs compared old buildings to a “necessary ingredient in city diversity,” which emphasizes the essentiality to city’s aesthetic value and economic vitality. Jacobs believes that both characters are indispensable to city’s public life and people’s social life. In addition to more discussion on the implication of building preservation in terms of economic vitality, Jacobs also believes that communities often develop a physical attachment to the people, places, and events in the past. Therefore, retaining the “sense of old places” becomes even more critical to generate the “sense of community”, especially along with the fast pace of globalization and urbanization, building preservation also means to preserve the heritage for the future

They perceived social attributes of the architectural features as important. The appropriate alterations for building front (e.g., entrance and porch), height and scale were to solidify community’s demographic character and strengthen their social bond and diversity. However, this study illustrated that a controversy can arise in the pursuit of social bond and diversity. For instance, the desire for protection of the existing residents from gentrification conflicted with the desire for social diversity (i.e. building height and scale) in this study. Furthermore, participants evaluated an acceptable change depending on how the original features were, on how they had been modified and how they have been currently serving a social function. (i.e., building entrances and porches). The affordability and practicality of the features were also important issues. Wealthy Heights was historically a working class neighborhood. Many low income families still live in this district to this day. Such a recognition seems associated with the issues and influential to the importance and/or acceptable treatments for the materials. Interestingly, these concerns resulted in participants’ interest in construction materials and technology for a green

I found the concept of adaptive reuse in health care fascinating. In the current context, were most health systems are trying to control capital expenditures and costs in general; this approach offers the potential to deliver significant financial savings over new constructions. The examples the authors gave saved an average of $125 to $140 per square foot which is a considerable cost reduction. The authors pointed out a very obvious obstacle to adaptive reuse in the lack of fit and available building in a desired area. This is particularly true in thriving markets, such the Greater Seattle market which has surpassed San Francisco and New York. It is now the fourth-strongest overall real estate market in the nation, and it's the third best

Stone quarrying leads to eroded hills, like this picture showing the site of maharani marble quarry, brick kilns in the fringes of the city lead to denudation of topsoil, dredging for sand damage the river biodiversity etc.

The article claims that many valuable sites were lost due to constructing buildings in the cities. However, the professor says that construction sites are examined according to the archeological interests and values. According to the professor, if buildings are going to build, the archeologists and local government make a plan to preserve an artifacts from previous building sites to protect artifacts before constructing the building.

The research will show the importance of preservation verse new construction. The reasons why new construction is damaging not just to the history lost but also to the farmlands and open spaces. Research will include a comparison of what is being done today and past historic preservation techniques used in cities having large historic

The mixture of buildings of different conditions are necessary to public life because it otherwise would be neither interesting nor fascinating. But the main reasons are because they ensure low rent yields, encouraging the growth of small enterprises. Large swatches of new construction would only prevent income since not many would afford it, and the demand for it would not be as large as it would need to be.

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As people known, to use renewable resource and to save energy or comfortable indoor environment is far from the overall picture. Because construction mentioned above is an industry which include many aspects such as land use and application of advanced technology, etc. Therefore if we want to define what is green building we should recognize the whole industrial chain included each aspects and unintended environment, social, economic, consequence brought possibly of complex activity. Kats (2003) in his article stated that the sustainable or green building should deal with those key points: environment, resource & energy consumption, impact on people, financial impact and the world at large which is a broader set of issues such as ground water recharge or global warming, as well governmental policies are typically concerned about (Kats, 2003, P. 1). And another institute, Office of the federal Environmental Executive (2003) defined green building as the practice of increasing the efficiency with which