Structures: Failure, Adaptation, and Reinvention

Harvard GSD

As the impact of embodied carbon catches up with that of operational carbon, the importance of adaptive reuse projects cannot be understated and the reuse of structural materials is often a key, if not the key, driver of architectural design. When you are confronted with the need to premise a building’s design on the retention of a large chunk of existing structure, having an intuitive feel for that structure’s ability to be re-activated under modern codes and the materials that are and are…