AI[RE]FABRICATION

The refabrication of the Airey system for the second-generation to come, focusing on the design case ‘Airey-strip blocks’ in Amsterdam Nieuw-West.

Master thesis (2017)

Authors

H. SEO Architecture and the Built Environment

Contributors

L.G.K. Spoormans (mentor)
B. Gremmen (graduation committee member)
Nicholas Clarke (graduation committee member)
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment, Architecture and the Built Environment
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Published Date

27-06-2017

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Abstract

Sustainability is one of the biggest topics in the current architectural field. The real meaning of sustainability in the architecture is not restricted to the energy issue but related to the quality of life in rather humanistic discourse. As indicated on the Burra Charter in 2013, place that coexists with the cultural importance upgrades the people’s life by virtue of the diversity of the community. Also, it insists the importance of conservation grounded on the principle of intergenerational equity. This assertion calls attention to the renovation project due to the needs of exploration in the existing legacy. The sustainable design and research focused on the reusability of visible and invisible values will contribute to the urban environment so that the community work actively as a living organism. Therefore, this research will be relevant to any other heritage project because it deals mainly with the conflicting values on the boundary between the cultural value and the people’s need to revive the value of the past to the current society. Of course, the design approach to the Nemavo-Airey system will especially be applicable to the other building systems in the existing building stocks from the similar era in the Netherland. However, the design process also will serve as a momentum to transform the value left at the heritage building to a new possibility so that the social properties can expand its lifespan.