February 24, 2007 – 11:38 pm
We’re back at last, with a shiny new network running Linux (Fedora Core 6 because it is so rigorous about open source) with Windows reduced to either dual boot or virtualisation. Free at last, free at last. Not that we want to see Windows disappear entirely, this post over on Table of Malcontents expresses our [...]
February 14, 2007 – 1:08 am
(Photo by busymonster)
This blog developed from our search for adaptively reused quarries and when we relaunched it back in April last year our first post was about the adaptive reuse of a cement works near Vancouver, now the Butchart Gardens, one of the most visited tourist attractions in Canada. We were trying to prove that [...]
February 4, 2007 – 4:36 pm
The Silver Bullet Cafe at Alice Springs in outback Australia is like a pattern book of adaptive reuse and recycling projects.
In fact it has more than 90% recycled materials. Consisting of several 4.2m x 15m Silver Bullet caravans once used as remote area schoolrooms it also incorporates the remains of a WWII ordnance depot.
It’s all [...]
February 4, 2007 – 12:55 pm
If there is one thing we are looking forward to this year it’s the test run of Behrokh Khoshnevis’ Contour Crafting 3D House Printer in April 2007. You could call it printer technology adaptively reused but it’s more a case of evolved.
So, print yourself a house then pop out to your shed where you keep [...]
February 4, 2007 – 12:43 am
(Photo Sean Hemmerle)
You will have noticed that we’ve been updating our links since new year. While trawling our bookmarks we noticed a thread of links about apocalypse that we discussed in our last post but also about attempts to adapt to catastrophes/war/dystopias, providing visions of a future that is all too possible.
Beirut seems to be [...]
January 17, 2007 – 9:33 pm
The history of prefab buildings is long and honorable (even the First Fleet sent out to set up a British colony in Australia in 1788 brought prefab buildings), and the importance of old prefab buildings cannot be understated for they are among the most vulnerable elements of the built environment. It is especially true of [...]
January 17, 2007 – 5:56 pm
One of the main arguments for adaptive reuse is sustainability, by extending a building’s life you save its embodied energy, and the bigger the building the more you save. If the building is in the US and you can achieve Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification as a sustainable building you gain other [...]
January 15, 2007 – 10:38 pm
(Photo Douglas LeMoine)
Broken Angel, the Brooklyn house made famous by Dave Chapelle’s Block Party, may have been saved by an adaptive reuse deal according to the New York Times.
(Photo Douglas LeMoine)
The spectacular example of outsider architecture has been suffering a near death experience following a fire in early October 2006. According to the owner’s son, [...]
January 14, 2007 – 6:12 pm
Just as it has become fashionable for designers to give a nod to adaptive reuse, it is also fashionable for architects to create show houses for refugees. You get a few extra brownie points if it involves a bit of adaptive reuse.
Here’s an example by Cubo Arquitectos of Santiago, Chile.
Its made entirely of doors, pallettes [...]
January 13, 2007 – 2:46 pm
(Photo Colin Gregory Palmer)
It’s one of the most recognisable buildings in the world, certainly the most famous power station. You would think its adaptive reuse would be so obvious and simple, yet the devious twists and turns in its recent history, the trickery and betrayals, would make baby Jesus weep. Yes, it’s Battersea Power Station, [...]
