Dynamic, intelligent, adaptable buildings are "the logical next step", he claims.
Their future success and survival will be aided by better and more adaptable buildings, based on a well-researched evidence base.
This paper identifies eleven design-based "enablers" (strategies) for creating adaptable buildings that are resistant to obsolescence.
Stronger than a trend, less coherent than a movement, Art Nouveau was a style, or several styles that added up to a "look," instantly recognizable and equally adaptable to building facades and furniture, book covers and theater posters, hair pins and ceramic pots.
This chapter provides that it is the purpose of combinational logic design to build larger, more sophisticated logic circuits by using the most adaptable and versatile building blocks available.
Nor do they seem especially architectural; they look more like neutral floor or wall finishes adaptable to any building, old or modern.
If the use of solar energy is to mean that significantly less fossil fuel will be consumed, solar systems must be readily adaptable to existing buildings as well as new buildings.
English Heritage has recognised this, ensuring the spirit of the original design is retained while the building remains adaptable in the future".
When the bank president originally approached Skidmore, Owings in the 1950s, Mr. Duffy said, he had asked that the building be adaptable in case it failed as a bank.
Dr. Parr, who has appointments in both the life sciences and computer studies at the University of Maryland and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, melds her biology training with the ideas of computer scientists who are building custom adaptable databases.
