Planning ahead : characteristics of versatile buildings
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Author(s)
Mahler, Stephen N
Advisor(s)
Chester L. Sprague.
Alternative Title
Characteristics of versatile buildings
Date Issued
1983
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
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.
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Thesis (M. Arch)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1983.
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Text on even numbered pages runs from back to front.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 81).
Subjects
Architecture.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture
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