All tagged adaptable architecture
What makes a great urban space? Vitality, activity, scenery, history, car prohibited areas, architecture… It's somewhere you want to be because you don't feel too insignificant in your surrounds. You want to linger there, exploring cozy nooks and taking in the sights, smells and sounds.
When one thinks of passive house they probably think - like I did - that it's to keep the house warm through winter. And while that's correct, it's only part of the picture because overheating in summer gets overlooked.
Too often as architects and designers we are thinking about designing the perfect building to meet the brief, when the reality is that it is likely to be changed in the future. If we could consider this in the initial design then it would minimize the negative aesthetic effects that these changes could make.
