Post on 25-May-2020
stakeholder perspectiveson adaptability in buildings
Jim Sakerj.m.saker@lboro.ac.uk
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It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. –
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If there was a business case for adaptability it would be happening as a matter of course.
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what do different stakeholders mean by the term ‘adaptability’? what do they see as the drivers behind developing more adaptable buildings? what do they see as the barriers to developing more adaptable buildings?buildings? what do they think would need to change for more buildings to be designed to be more adaptable?
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Discipline Number of interviewees
Architecture 40Architecture 40
Client/occupier 2
Engineering 5
Environmental management 1
Facilities/estates management 3
Planning 5a g 5
Property development 12
Project management 10
Q tit i 1Quantity surveying 1
Urban design 2
Valuation 5
Total 86
meaning of adaptability
future-proofing
“…you’re effectively future-proofing the building by trying to second guess what will be as relevant today as it will be in 10 years’ time or 20 years’ time”
(Agent)
future-proofing
“…you’re effectively future-proofing the building by trying to second guess what will be as relevant today as it will be in 10 years’ time or 20 years’ time”
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over-designing
“It’s like floor loadings. You know, over-specifying floor loadings is g , p y g ggreat, but it costs money. Under-specifying, it may not cost you money when you first let it. It costs you a hell of a lot of money later when you muck around with bits of the building and you affect the floor loadings and you can’t let the shop because you can’t put afloor loadings and you can t let the shop because you can t put a book store in”
(Agent)
providing redundancy
Sir Frank Gibb Building
simple design solutions
Kentish Town Health Centre
drivers for adaptability
ease of change
Sainsbury Visual Art Centre
fewer voids
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barriers to adaptability
it costs too much
“I like buildings to last 500 years. I’d like them to change uses ten g y gtimes. I’d like to be able to dismantle an office façade and put another kind of façade and respond to the climate and all of that. I guess the problem is that the more flexibility you create… the more cost there is”cost there is
(Architect)
it’s not my decision
it’s not my decision
“You can plan for flexibility but then the contractor might come in and say, “I’m going to do the whole thing in load bearing masonry with short spans,” and then actual flexibility of use is limited”
(Architect)
it will compromise the design
Energy Park
it will compromise the design
“The other one is there’s something very nice about specificity, you know, a tailor made suit that only fits me that really – that when it’sknow, a tailor made suit that only fits me that really that when it s got the length of my arm and it just moves around and I feel good and it is light, whereas Armani had created the suit that was flexible then, you know, whereas in the heavy tailored Savile Row suit is –onl s its one person and makes them look slim and makes themonly suits one person, and makes them look slim, and makes them look taller, and makes them look elegant. And so the danger in ‘one cut fits all’ is that nobody ever looks good in it”
(Architect)
what needs to change?
what needs to change?
conclusions
what else needs to change?
conclusions
what else needs to change?
www.adaptablefutures.comthank you
Jim Sakerj.m.saker@lboro.ac.uk