Area Modification in Constructed Public Buildings in an Adaptive Reuse Perspective, Former Presidency of Mosul University - Case study
The construction sector has recently rehabilitated and adapted a large number of buildings designed to meet the humanitarian needs and provide space required for various activities and services, that achieve the objectives of economic, cultural, technical and demographic changes. The Adapt...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Arabic |
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University of Sulaimania
2019-05-01
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| Series: | Sulaimani Journal for Engineering Sciences |
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| Online Access: | https://sites.google.com/a/univsul.edu.iq/sjes/issues/vol6no3/sjes-10102 |
| Summary: | The construction sector has recently rehabilitated
and adapted a large number of buildings designed
to meet the humanitarian needs and provide space
required for various activities and services, that
achieve the objectives of economic, cultural,
technical and demographic changes. The Adaptive
Reuse is one of the vital methods to provide
buildings, due to their economic advantages in
saving energy, resources, efforts and costs by
maintaining constructed buildings. The paper
discusses the importance of the constructed
buildings and their physical and moral values ,
which determine the economic feasibility to
prolong the building life. It also clarifies the
contradictory relationship between building
functional and structural age, beside the internal
and external challenges faced by buildings which
represented by changes in space requirements, as
well as physical, technical, social and economic
changes. It deals with the adaptive reuse concept
as a mechanism for retaining the socially
required buildings, then determining the elements
of this technique, applying what was drawn on a
case study - a public construction (the previous
presidency building of the Mosul University)
which has been emptied of its function to occupy
a new one (a guesthouse for the campus),
measuring the efficiency of alternatives design,
and determining the economic optimization based
on the possibilities of spatial modification within
adaptive principles and flexible design ideas.
Following by presenting a set of recommendations
to adopt in reusing process for altering the
characteristics of an abandoned building by
changing its function. The study analyzed the
proposed building, its design and construction
characteristics, evaluated them according to the
principles of flexible design ideas as effective
factors in adapting the building to the new use.
Then, it presented a set of design alternatives that
were implemented according to adaptability
strategies, and next performing a comparison on
the economic and functional characteristics - with
neutralizing the aesthetic values - which are
carried by each of these alternatives, which
achieving the functional program derived from
the analysis of a set of international models of
university guesthouses, especially those meeting
the local needs, followed by realizing the
comparisons results, conclusions and
recommendations for the project.
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| ISSN: | 2410-1699 2415-6655 |