Journal of Architectural Engineering Technology
Open Access

Research Article

Adaptive Reuse Architecture Documentation and Analysis

Faculty of Architecture & Town Planning, Technion – IIT, Haifa, Israel

*Corresponding Author:

Dafna Fisher-Gewirtzman
Faculty of Architecture & Town Planning
Technion – IIT, Haifa, Israel
Tel: +972-4-8294031
E-mail:ardafna@ar.technion.ac.il

Received Date: September 20, 2016; Accepted Date: September 25, 2016; Published Date: September 29, 2016

Citation: Fisher-Gewirtzman D (2016) Adaptive Reuse Architecture Documentation and Analysis. J Archit Eng Tech 5: 172. doi: 10.4172/2168-9717.1000172

Copyright: © 2016 Fisher-Gewirtzman D. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Buildings have been reused throughout history. The current discourse of diverse trends in preservation together with awareness for sustainable environments has led to a surge in adaptive reuse projects. The combination of new and old architecture ensures the retaining of authentic character while providing an appropriate new use and revitalizing the structure. Learning from precedents is one of the most important knowledge bases for architects. It has many layers of knowledge referring to the old building and its original use, the transformed building and its new use, and the transformation itself. The objective of this work is to propose a theoretical and practical background for a systematic process to support adaptive reuse architecture precedent E-learning. A procedure for the analysis has been developed to fit the specific nature of this architecture data. This paper is presenting the analysis principles and demonstrates the system as a powerful infrastructure for E-learning.

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