Planning ahead : characteristics of versatile buildings

If a building is to maintain its life-long usefulness it must be possible to alter it to accommodate different programmatic demands. This thesis investigates the spatial and material character that facilitates this architectural accommodation of diversity and change: Framed New England houses are compared with contemporary office buildings for their adaptability. A program of office and residential space is presented for a small valley near Brownsville Vermont. A building type is planned for this context and inhabited several ways to test its capabilities.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

1983

Author dc:creator

• Mahler, Stephen N

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Chester L. Sprague.

• Architecture.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/75939

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/75939