Introduction
Most buildings are resilient. They can accommodate change, they can evolve, expand, contract; they can adapt as the needs and priorities of those who occupy them become different. It is feasible to remodel most buildings for a broad range of circumstances and it is possible for a building to have a number of different lives and achievable reincarnations. Places that are adaptable can generate associations with the past and with the future; they create interconnections through time and space. They retain a sense of their previous existence while also providing an opportunity for the next. They possess the mnemonic quality of the already there.
If it is seen as desirable both to retain and reuse the existing building stock, then these ...
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