IntAR, Interventions Adaptive Reuse, Volume 05; Resilience and Adaptability

By Fabrizio Gesuelli, Marco Vanucci, Richard Goodwin

Economic decline, natural and manmade disasters, war and destruction, acts of devastating violence, the 21st century has witnessed a climate of crisis, most often immediate and unpredictable but, at times, foreseen, impending and even expected. Such events and the ability for continuity, recovery and change, require strength borne from adaptability. Drawing upon a concept originally introduced by C. S.Holling regarding equilibrium in the ecological system, Volume 05 of the Int AR journal explores the idea of resilience. From anticipatory strategies to shock absorption, from the reduction of material needs to the widening of the array of resources, from the liberation of traditional constraints to new forms of collaborations, from built-in redundancies to risk mitigation, from transformability to incrementality, this strategy is broad and equally applicable in science, economy, urban planning and design. For Volume 05, we focus on such ideas, theories and explorations in the design of the built environment and welcome submissions on adaptive reuse and the adaptive process as a means and demonstration of resilience.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0983272336
• ISBN13: 9780983272335
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Rhode Island School of Design
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.5" x 11.0"