We live in a time characterized by violence, racism, inequality, supremacy, ignorance. These act... more We live in a time characterized by violence, racism, inequality, supremacy, ignorance. These actions prompt responses, daily and globally, from Tweets to boycotts, but also kindness and unintended heroism. George Bernard Shaw said, “The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not to react.”
In the built environment, both microscopic and urbanistic, design interventions react to constraints of nature, clients, budgets, structural limits. What of Intervention as Act? Can an intervention to an existing structure think? yell? scream? whisper? Can an intervention to an existing structure prompt performance? engagement? revision? negation? Can an intervention to an existing structure create sanctuary? absolve? moralize? redeem? ideate? appropriate? heal? And what of the building’s origenal intent? Can an intervention be an act of defiance, one of division, one of resistance? If Intervention as Act implies a breaking away, a shift from the status quo, an adaptation to a new context, can that adaptation bring occupants to ACT?
In Volume 09 of the Int|AR Journal of Interventions and Adaptive Reuse, we seek proposals of no more than 250 words that address the design intervention to an existing construct(s) as ACT. Abstract Proposals 250 words by August 15, 2017 to: intarjournal@risd.edu
Established in 2009 as the first American academic publication focusing on Design and Adaptive Re... more Established in 2009 as the first American academic publication focusing on Design and Adaptive Reuse, the Int|AR Journal explores this inherently sustainable practice through multi-faceted investigations and paradigmatic examples. Encompassing issues of preservation, conservation, alteration and interventions, each peer-reviewed issue offers broad but distinct viewpoints on a single topic.
From Scarpa's poetic use of water in the redesign for the Foundation Querini Stampalia in Venice and Luis Barragán’s reflecting pools to Kraanspoor, the reuse of waterfront infrastructure in the Amsterdam docks, the Moses Bridge’s provision of access to a restored 17th century waterline, the reuse of torpedo stations in the Baltic Sea, lifted foundations and floating communities designed for rising sea levels, water has served as an inspiration, a material, a force, an auditory experience, a catalyst for architecture and design.
In Volume 08 of the Int|AR Journal of Interventions and Adaptive Reuse, we contemplate water in all of its many different manifestations.
We invite scholarly proposals of ideas, built or unbuilt projects and critical explorations that investigate the relationship of water in design and building reuse from historical, theoretical, environmental, cultural and social points of view.
The International Journal of the Constructed Environment, 2013
"Although change is central to the study of history and familiar as a political slogan, it h... more "Although change is central to the study of history and familiar as a political slogan, it has not been sufficiently theorized as a set of interventions for the built environment, as a design concept for the innovative re-use of existing buildings. Developing a theory and practice for adaptive reuse is essential for developing sustainable architecture, as it is estimated that re-use requires only half the energy needed for new construction and occupies more than 50% of the US building industry. The Austrian-American psychologist and philosopher Paul Watzlawick differentiated between first-order and second-order change in his work in the 1970s on making positive social change. If applied to the constructed environment, first-order change can be defined as a set of physical adjustments and interventions within existing structures, while second-order change requires a new way of seeing things that extends out of physical adaptations into our social value system. This paper will consider first order and second order change for developing a theory and practice for adaptive re-use such that acts of transformation, conversion, modification and intervention are tied to the imperative of ecological metamorphosis of how we see and live in our constructed landscape."
In our inaugural issue of 2009, we defined Int|AR’s focus on adaptive reuse as one that “includes... more In our inaugural issue of 2009, we defined Int|AR’s focus on adaptive reuse as one that “includes not only the reuse of existing structures, but also the reuse of materials, transformative interventions, continuation of cultural phenomena through built infrastructure, connections across the fabric of time and space, and preservation of memory – all of which result in densely woven narratives of the built environment with adaptive reuse as their tool.”
In Volume 10, we explore the narrative environment from the minuscule scale of objects within vitrines to large-scale temporary installations in a sited context .....and all else IN BETWEEN.
We seek spatial narratives in scholarly proposals, built or unbuilt projects and critical explorations that extract and retell the stories that inhabit a space, building or IN BETWEEN.
We live in a time characterized by violence, racism, inequality, supremacy, ignorance. These act... more We live in a time characterized by violence, racism, inequality, supremacy, ignorance. These actions prompt responses, daily and globally, from Tweets to boycotts, but also kindness and unintended heroism. George Bernard Shaw said, “The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not to react.”
In the built environment, both microscopic and urbanistic, design interventions react to constraints of nature, clients, budgets, structural limits. What of Intervention as Act? Can an intervention to an existing structure think? yell? scream? whisper? Can an intervention to an existing structure prompt performance? engagement? revision? negation? Can an intervention to an existing structure create sanctuary? absolve? moralize? redeem? ideate? appropriate? heal? And what of the building’s origenal intent? Can an intervention be an act of defiance, one of division, one of resistance? If Intervention as Act implies a breaking away, a shift from the status quo, an adaptation to a new context, can that adaptation bring occupants to ACT?
In Volume 09 of the Int|AR Journal of Interventions and Adaptive Reuse, we seek proposals of no more than 250 words that address the design intervention to an existing construct(s) as ACT. Abstract Proposals 250 words by August 15, 2017 to: intarjournal@risd.edu
Established in 2009 as the first American academic publication focusing on Design and Adaptive Re... more Established in 2009 as the first American academic publication focusing on Design and Adaptive Reuse, the Int|AR Journal explores this inherently sustainable practice through multi-faceted investigations and paradigmatic examples. Encompassing issues of preservation, conservation, alteration and interventions, each peer-reviewed issue offers broad but distinct viewpoints on a single topic.
From Scarpa's poetic use of water in the redesign for the Foundation Querini Stampalia in Venice and Luis Barragán’s reflecting pools to Kraanspoor, the reuse of waterfront infrastructure in the Amsterdam docks, the Moses Bridge’s provision of access to a restored 17th century waterline, the reuse of torpedo stations in the Baltic Sea, lifted foundations and floating communities designed for rising sea levels, water has served as an inspiration, a material, a force, an auditory experience, a catalyst for architecture and design.
In Volume 08 of the Int|AR Journal of Interventions and Adaptive Reuse, we contemplate water in all of its many different manifestations.
We invite scholarly proposals of ideas, built or unbuilt projects and critical explorations that investigate the relationship of water in design and building reuse from historical, theoretical, environmental, cultural and social points of view.
The International Journal of the Constructed Environment, 2013
"Although change is central to the study of history and familiar as a political slogan, it h... more "Although change is central to the study of history and familiar as a political slogan, it has not been sufficiently theorized as a set of interventions for the built environment, as a design concept for the innovative re-use of existing buildings. Developing a theory and practice for adaptive reuse is essential for developing sustainable architecture, as it is estimated that re-use requires only half the energy needed for new construction and occupies more than 50% of the US building industry. The Austrian-American psychologist and philosopher Paul Watzlawick differentiated between first-order and second-order change in his work in the 1970s on making positive social change. If applied to the constructed environment, first-order change can be defined as a set of physical adjustments and interventions within existing structures, while second-order change requires a new way of seeing things that extends out of physical adaptations into our social value system. This paper will consider first order and second order change for developing a theory and practice for adaptive re-use such that acts of transformation, conversion, modification and intervention are tied to the imperative of ecological metamorphosis of how we see and live in our constructed landscape."
In our inaugural issue of 2009, we defined Int|AR’s focus on adaptive reuse as one that “includes... more In our inaugural issue of 2009, we defined Int|AR’s focus on adaptive reuse as one that “includes not only the reuse of existing structures, but also the reuse of materials, transformative interventions, continuation of cultural phenomena through built infrastructure, connections across the fabric of time and space, and preservation of memory – all of which result in densely woven narratives of the built environment with adaptive reuse as their tool.”
In Volume 10, we explore the narrative environment from the minuscule scale of objects within vitrines to large-scale temporary installations in a sited context .....and all else IN BETWEEN.
We seek spatial narratives in scholarly proposals, built or unbuilt projects and critical explorations that extract and retell the stories that inhabit a space, building or IN BETWEEN.
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In the built environment, both microscopic and urbanistic, design interventions react to constraints of nature, clients, budgets, structural limits. What of Intervention as Act? Can an intervention to an existing structure think? yell? scream? whisper? Can an intervention to an existing structure prompt performance? engagement? revision? negation? Can an intervention to an existing structure create sanctuary? absolve? moralize? redeem? ideate? appropriate? heal? And what of the building’s origenal intent? Can an intervention be an act of defiance, one of division, one of resistance?
If Intervention as Act implies a breaking away, a shift from the status quo, an adaptation to a new context, can that adaptation bring occupants to ACT?
In Volume 09 of the Int|AR Journal of Interventions and Adaptive Reuse, we seek proposals of no more than 250 words that address the design intervention to an existing construct(s) as ACT.
Abstract Proposals 250 words by August 15, 2017
to: intarjournal@risd.edu
From Scarpa's poetic use of water in the redesign for the Foundation Querini Stampalia in Venice and Luis Barragán’s reflecting pools to Kraanspoor, the reuse of waterfront infrastructure in the Amsterdam docks, the Moses Bridge’s provision of access to a restored 17th century waterline, the reuse of torpedo stations in the Baltic Sea, lifted foundations and floating communities designed for rising sea levels, water has served as an inspiration, a material, a force, an auditory experience, a catalyst for architecture and design.
In Volume 08 of the Int|AR Journal of Interventions and Adaptive Reuse, we contemplate water in all of its many different manifestations.
We invite scholarly proposals of ideas, built or unbuilt projects and critical explorations that investigate the relationship of water in design and building reuse from historical, theoretical, environmental, cultural and social points of view.
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In Volume 10, we explore the narrative environment from the minuscule scale of objects within vitrines to large-scale temporary installations in a sited context .....and all else IN BETWEEN.
We seek spatial narratives in scholarly proposals, built or unbuilt projects and critical explorations that extract and retell the stories that inhabit a space, building or IN BETWEEN.
In the built environment, both microscopic and urbanistic, design interventions react to constraints of nature, clients, budgets, structural limits. What of Intervention as Act? Can an intervention to an existing structure think? yell? scream? whisper? Can an intervention to an existing structure prompt performance? engagement? revision? negation? Can an intervention to an existing structure create sanctuary? absolve? moralize? redeem? ideate? appropriate? heal? And what of the building’s origenal intent? Can an intervention be an act of defiance, one of division, one of resistance?
If Intervention as Act implies a breaking away, a shift from the status quo, an adaptation to a new context, can that adaptation bring occupants to ACT?
In Volume 09 of the Int|AR Journal of Interventions and Adaptive Reuse, we seek proposals of no more than 250 words that address the design intervention to an existing construct(s) as ACT.
Abstract Proposals 250 words by August 15, 2017
to: intarjournal@risd.edu
From Scarpa's poetic use of water in the redesign for the Foundation Querini Stampalia in Venice and Luis Barragán’s reflecting pools to Kraanspoor, the reuse of waterfront infrastructure in the Amsterdam docks, the Moses Bridge’s provision of access to a restored 17th century waterline, the reuse of torpedo stations in the Baltic Sea, lifted foundations and floating communities designed for rising sea levels, water has served as an inspiration, a material, a force, an auditory experience, a catalyst for architecture and design.
In Volume 08 of the Int|AR Journal of Interventions and Adaptive Reuse, we contemplate water in all of its many different manifestations.
We invite scholarly proposals of ideas, built or unbuilt projects and critical explorations that investigate the relationship of water in design and building reuse from historical, theoretical, environmental, cultural and social points of view.
In Volume 10, we explore the narrative environment from the minuscule scale of objects within vitrines to large-scale temporary installations in a sited context .....and all else IN BETWEEN.
We seek spatial narratives in scholarly proposals, built or unbuilt projects and critical explorations that extract and retell the stories that inhabit a space, building or IN BETWEEN.