RE:prediction

RE:prediction

Duijn, E.

Smit, M.J. (mentor)
Jennen, P.H.M. (mentor)
Geldermans, R.J. (mentor)

Architecture and The Built Environment

Architectural Engineering

Stock / Flow

2015-06-30

This project is about adapting existing office buildings into building-plots for dwellings. All plots can accommodate an independent house, in order to allow for infinite changes. Meaning that they could be demolished without affecting other houses. This project is a revival of ‘Supports’, a concept introduced by John Habraken in 1961. Steward Brand concludes his book How Buildings Learn with a perfectly logic statement: ‘All buildings are predictions, all buildings are wrong’. Because all buildings will need to change at some point to deal with a dynamic context. Some allow for this better than others, and some are just really wrong. Which perhaps applies for the apartment building as we know it. This typology usually only allows for small indoor changes. This severe lack of adaptability will leave them redundant far too soon. This is a serious problem from a circularity point of view. Especially with the ongoing global urbanization; there is and will be a high demand for stacked housing, which will require an incredible amount of resources. We must use these resources in a smart way, by constructing for independent housing, not apartments. This will allow infinite adaptability and enables everyone – not just the wealthy – to regain full control over their own house. This project even allows them to organize the plot configuration with an app.

Habraken
Circularity
Drager
Re-use
Housing

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:d830d7cf-7758-4095-8c15-be16868adf46

52.306561, 4.947121

Student theses

master thesis

(c) 2015 Duijn, E.