Chapter 4Existing buildings and priorities

Selecting and working with existing buildings

Adopting new design approaches is challenging enough in itself as a learning curve, but putting them into practice on existing buildings always puts design teams through their paces.

Case studies with suggested approaches, and research studies that are conducted within framed situations, are reassuring and provide a strong reference of evidence for us to work from, but none of them can really tell us exactly how to adapt the design principles in a building interior that is as unique as the next. There are no two buildings the same and even more so, no interior space that is set up and performs ...

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