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This essay discusses architecture under the perspective of flexibility and how this concept manifests itself in urban environments. It will analyse the structure and materiality of this approach as well as its use in modern city landscapes. By examining two separate case studies, one would be able to understand how " the strategy of flexibility " is used and applied, in order to provide " a solution to the never changing city ". The first case study reviews the work of Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa and the concept of metabolism in modern urban living spaces. Along with his colleagues, Kurakawa pioneered by doubting modern architecture itself and turned towards biology and cybernetics in order to provide solutions for the new urban environment. He came up with experimental ideas and applied them on projects such as the famous Capsule Hotel in Tokyo (residential and office spaces). The second case study is a building that in daylight its structure looks incomplete, the 1111 Lincoln Road by Herzog & de Meuron. This strange building is more a flexible parking sculpture rather than car park and its architects, famous for designing the Beijing Bird's Nest stadium, will aid us understand how urban architecture can both be functional and aesthetic, while remaining flexible and seemingly " endless ".

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- Architecture, Urbanism, Flexible Architecture, Kisho Kurokawa

The Bangkok development is moving toward sprawl and mono-living housing development. The suggestion is to apply Open Building to Bangkok shophouses for mixed- use and sustainable development. Although, the numbers of shophouses are decreased, they have a potential to serve mixed-use development which can improve living quality in the city. The study addresses an approach to revise the existing shophouse structure by the support- design method to increase flexibility and e5asily adjustment.
The study is divided into two parts: survey and support design. The survey applies the questionnaire and typological study to reveal the existing conditions of 70 Bangkok shophouses in middle and periphery areas. Later, the typological study reveals the characteristics for the support design. Both studies suggest a modification or adjustment of the existing shophouse structures. The proposed shophouse support design is based on Habraken’s method. Consequently, the vertical shafts and stairs positions are added for serving variations.
The final support design are evaluated by the test group both Japanese and Thai architectural master students. The support and method are well accepted. Nevertheless, the comments point a limitation of design resulting from the vertical shafts and stairs position. The daylight and ventilation problems are raised. These problems need a further study to improve the support and quality of the shophouses.

- by Chamnarn Tirapas and +1
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- Design, Mixed use development, Flexible Architecture, Shophouse
- by Iasef Md Rian
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- Flexible Architecture, Flexible Housing, Adaptable Housing, Healthy Housing

SILVA, J. L.; ELOY, S (2012): “Arquitetura flexível: movimento e sistemas cinéticos” In proceedings of the 2nd Seminário de Arquitetura, urbanismo e Design da Academia de Escolas de Arquitetura e Urbanismo de Língua Portuguesa – Os Palcos... more

- by Sara Eloy
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- Kinetics, Flexible Architecture

The world’s climate is changing at unprecedented rates. As temperatures increase, sea level rises, and extreme weather events become more frequent, the world’s population will be increasingly affected by flooding. Rising waters already pose a considerable threat in urban areas throughout the globe, endangering coastal communities and causing millions of dollars in damage and repair. Rooted on the environmental variations caused by climate change and its impact on human populations, the paper will reflect upon two traditional measures utilized in the prevention of flooding: the implementation of hard-infrastructure projects and the relocation of populations at risk. As the paper will delineate, hard-infrastructure projects that have been applied for generations in order to control the forces of water, are currently challenged by the possibility of obsolescence. At the same time, the relocation of families to safer grounds, often defined by financial, physical and political constraints, is called into question for the consequent dismantlement of social groups and the potential abandonment of entire urban settings. Hence the paper argues in favor of a paradigm shift in architecture and planning practices from strengthening boundaries toward establishing a more fluid relationship between water and land. The inevitability of flooding urges architects to consider water as a design element, allowing it to infiltrate the land and to become part of the built environment. To this end, the study evaluates three contemporary housing responses to flooding: the “FLOAT House”, by Morphosis; the “New Aqueous City”, by nARCHITECTS; and the “Turnaround House”, by Nissen Adams LLP. These examples unveil alternative approaches to the inhabitation of floodplains, challenging traditional architectural solutions by incorporating into design the conditions of transition intrinsic to areas affected by flooding.

- by Karen Paiva Henrique
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- Architecture, Climate Change, Urban Planning, Urban Studies
- by Sara Eloy
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- Kinetics, Flexible Architecture

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- by Evangelos Stavrakakis
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- Hybridity, Adaptive Reuse, Bottom-up strategies, Porosity

The ubiquity of flood events challenges designers to rethink the longstanding relationship between cities and their surrounding water bodies, (re)envisioning how the floodplain should be occupied. Contemporary proposals for residential development in the urban coast increasingly accept the inevitability of flooding, devising buildings and landscapes to make room for excess water. Building upon this idea, this article analyzes contemporary residential design for flooding focusing on the question: How are buildings and landscapes (re)defined by their relationship with the recurrent presence of water? The article draws from the systematic analysis of four case studies in the Netherlands, the United States, and the United Kingdom, exploring buildings and landscapes designed to cope with flooding through structures that are raised, buoyant and/or permeable. It uses a novel approach to the integrated analysis of architecture and landscape architecture, applying drawings as a tool for analysis. The result is a holistic understanding of design solutions produced to cope with recurrent flood events. The article elucidates how these emergent typologies engender a new relationship between architecture and landscape architecture, and between floodplain dwellers and their natural environments, through the careful composition of buildings and landscapes in relation to their fluid terrains.

- by Karen Paiva Henrique
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- Architecture, Climate Change, Climate Change Adaptation, Flooding

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Unhealthy housing or unhealthy environment directly and indirectly impact on an occupant’s physical, mental and socio-emotional health for the reason that human beings, housing and surrounding environment are connected to each other. Accordingly, achieving healthy housing is a very significant issue as well as challenge. But unfortunately, because of many restrictions, negligence, poor planning, pollution, harsh climate and selection of harmful building materials residential building or housing apartment become unhealthy. Many common attempts are usually carried out to make an unhealthy housing healthy, but most of the methods and efforts itself have proved to be hectic, stressful and frustrating affecting not only occupant’s mental health but also hurt and injure them physically. Flexibility in design facilitates users’ control to customize, adapt and change the space with indoor setting as per their own changing needs, thus offering a greater extent of choices rather than moving t...

- by Iasef Md Rian
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- Flexible Architecture, Flexible Housing, Adaptable Housing, Healthy Housing

LOBBY Magazine Vol.2. ‘Clairvoyance’. Spring 2015. ISSN 2056-2977. Pp 36-37.

- by Marcela Aragüez, PhD
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- Architectural History, Uncertainty, Flexibility, Flexible Architecture
- by Joshua Lee
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- Engineering, Architecture, Schools, Flexibility

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In the 1950s, as the dynamically changing post-WWII world placed new demands on architecture that could no longer be static, Nordic tradition of building with timber was modified to fit the image of new modernity, rethought with industrial technology. As Nordic architects travelled further abroad and fostered intellectual connections with their colleagues in Europe and Japan, new systems-thinking, ideas of growth and change emerged in Norwegian architectural discourse. This paper studies how these new ideas found their expression in the design of “regional” modern housing in Norway in the 1950s–60s through two specific examples: Arne Korsmo’s cluster houses at Planetveien and Skjetten housing development, designed as a collaborative effort. Both projects rethought the traditional use of timber for residential construction within new industrial conditions and accommodated ideas of modularity, temporariness and growth from two different standpoints: one of a singular hyper-designed architectural object with custom-made flexible solutions, and another that appropriated industrial production to offer a solution general enough to accommodate growth and change in the context of mass-housing. This paper thus suggests to complicate the narrative of post-WWII regional modernism, where these two Norwegian projects serve as litmus paper to detect diverse regional adaptations of the late-modernist ideas of architecture of transformation and change.

- by Maryia Rusak
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- History of Ideas, Mobilities Studies, Japanese Architecture, Norway

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Recently, with the rapid spread use of mobile devices, some problems have begun to emerge. The most important of these are that the mobile devices batteries' life may be short and that these devices may be in some cases. The complex tasks that must be addressed to solve such problems on mobile devices can be transferred to the cloud environment when appropriate conditions are met. The decision to offload to the cloud environment at this stage is very important. In this thesis, a context-aware decision-making system has been developed for offloading to cloud environments. Unlike similar tasks, the processes determined for transfer to the cloud are not run randomly, but rather according to the mobile user's application usage habits. The developed system was implemented in a real environment for one month. According to the results, it was determined that processes transferred to the cloud were completed in less time and consumed less energy.

O trabalho faz uma analise do projeto de reabilitacao e restauro do Palacio da Abolicao em Fortaleza, sede executiva do Governo do Estado do Ceara. Proposto inicialmente como residencia do governador, o edificio faz parte de um importante conjunto arquitetonico moderno da cidade, inaugurado em 1970, de autoria do arquiteto Sergio Bernardes. No projeto de intervencao, realizado em 2011, buscou-se identificar e preservar as principais caracteristicas do projeto original. Atraves da analise de principios de flexibilidade adotados na proposta de Bernardes, busca‐se levantar uma discussao acerca de como tais principios, bastante presentes na Arquitetura Moderna, podem contribuir para intervencoes nos edificios deste periodo. No caso especifico das edificacoes publicas com finalidade administrativa, como e o caso do Palacio, e ainda mais importante adotar estes atributos tanto de permanencia e durabilidade do ponto vista estrutural e material quanto flexibilidade e necessidade de adaptab...

- by Ricardo Paiva
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- Modern Architecture, Flexible Architecture, Fortaleza

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