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Re-Face Refurbishment Strategies for the Technical
Improvement of Office Facades Doctoral
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The task of refurbishment is becoming the
predominant job of architects in the near future. Currently, the enormous
number of offices from the period 1950 to 1980 is very often seen as a burden
which is considered neither economically feasible, nor sustainable, nor
attractive. However, these buildings often hold huge potentials that are yet
to be discovered. This thesis rediscovers the knowledge of such older
buildings in general and their façade constructions in particular. It
develops a typology that demonstrates the variety and distribution of the
existing façades and their individual challenges. The intensive assessment of
seven representative case studies has resulted in a set of very promising
refurbishment strategies, tested on building structural level as well as on
detail level. Thus, this work proves the applicability of
refurbishment concepts to different façade types and that refurbishment is
often the better option for a building than demolition. Such refurbishment
planning is a creative form of design, which offers long term prospects for
office properties without neglecting their existing qualities – an entirely
new form of work for architects, clients, and developers, which has its own
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978-90-8570-499-7 Available through: |
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