I am recently conducting a research about the resilient factor of buildings. Can you include the resilient concept into the buildings design? I would like to know if exist any research about resilient factor included in buildings design.
I would like to know what is meant here you are flexible in function-based or simply planning away from complexity
Dear Rolando,
I would roughly say: yes you can locate it to buildings also. Important to know is resilience to what? To disaster, societal changes, functional adaptability, mobility...?
Also very important to focus on the system in detail: Resilience of what? All buildings? Old buildings? office buildings of the 70's? residential buildings? slum dwellings? The definition of your system to be analyzed will determine the relevant questions for your work. Please note the discussion on specified and general resilience in the first link attached.
I found it helpful to look at the discussion in the urban morphology considering resilience as well (2nd link).
For a detailed analysis of the resilience concept attached to building design, I think it would be useful to look back at the research of Anne Vernez-Moudon: "Built for change", 1986, MIT Press, where she uses the term resilience in her research about the typomorphological changes in a quarter in SF.
It might also be helpful to use metaphors from the resilience-discussion and adapt them to the perception of an architect. For this a look at the work of Holling, Gunderson, Carpenter, Cumming and Walker more close would be essential and helpful. They all use vocabulary which is established in architecture as well, like adaptability, variability, flexibility, modularity and so on.
If you can access ebrary, please look up the third link for the edited book of Pickett, Cadenasso and McGrath about Resilience in Ecology and Urban Design
http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol15/iss4/
http://kth.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:469884
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/alltitles/docDetail.action?docID=10649431
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