Adaptive Architecture and Sustainability

Research Project by M. Arch, master in design (MD), Industrial Phd student Søren Nielsen

The project poses the question: What does buildings ability to adapt mean in terms of sustainability? It is the aim of the project to develop multifunctional types of buildings, suitable for a northern European market that put a minimal load on climate and environment by optimizing the energy consumption over the entire life span of the buildings.

By considering buildings as living organisms with a lifetime many times longer than a human, models are examined for planning, load-bearing structures, access systems, and facades that make changes and further development possible and at the same time allow the users to exert influence on their physical environment.

The balance between general usability and architectonic identity is critically assessed as parameters for the durability of buildings.

Industrial part: Tegnestuen Vandkunsten.