Porosity of Building Structures: tracing multilayered changes to converted buildings.

The harmful effects of the building industry on our environment pose an increasing pressure on the development of new sustainable practices of construction. This project aims at laying the scientific foundation of basic design strategies to develop longer-lasting and more adaptable load-bearing structures of buildings, which are considered the most permanent building part and which hold the vast majority of embodied carbon. However, to design for change, change must first be understood. Through the empirical analysis of existing rehabilitated buildings, this project will generate novel insight into how and under which constraints buildings can indeed change, connecting findings from academic research and architectural practice.

Keywords:BUILDING STRUCTURE, CIRCULARITY

Disciplines:Structural design, Sustainable building, Architectural sciences and technology, Building technology, Design practice