Reversible Building Design (2018)

From the reports introduction. At the time of diminishing of resources and increase of environmental problems, it has become crucial to understand the capacities of buildings to transform a negative environmental impact of built environment to a positive one. The question is: how does one transform the current linear approach to design of buildings that has one ‘end-of-life’ option (demolition) to a circular design solution that will guarantee multiple life options of the building as well as of its systems, products and materials? This chapter looks into three dimensions of transformation dimension of spatial flexibility of building; dimension of technical flexibility of systems and product; and dimension for material flexibility that can make a transition from a linear to circular building. Buildings designed with three dimensions of transformation open opportunities for a great palette of new value propositions of buildings and its systems, products and materials. Those buildings are called reversible buildings.

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