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Open Building Academy - Video Lectures: A fascinating perspective on Open Building, given by (at least) five generations of architects
No full textOpen Building is a more than ever necessary instrument for city planning, building development and design processes. The building industry faces the task of drastically lowering its carbon and ecological footprint, by extending the lifespan of buildings, through adaptability. Open Building supports the transition to a society based on co-creation, participation, involvement and inclusion. The so-called supports or base-buildings form the ‘infrastructure’ for home-owners and users to inhabit and co-produce their environment.
Open Building offers possibilities for new real estate development models and forms of co-ownership and co-making. The process of Open Building engages future users and residents in the early stages of a project, to foster a strong sense of ownership and belonging and contribute to community development. Open Building is a process open for ideas, for interpretation and participation, whilst at the same taking into account the challenges we are facing with climate adaptation, energy and material reduction and the transition towards a circular economy.
The Open Building Academy started in September 2019. Students of the University of Applied Sciences in Amsterdam and Delft University of Technology research the Open Buildings, using the themes Open Development, Open Architecture and Open Systems. They will map the similarities and differences, study projects on their level of circularity and compare the various development processes.
In 2020 the Open Building Academy took a different, online direction. Initiated and organized by John Habraken, Thijs Asselbergs and the aE studio students, the workshop and lecture series Open Building NOW! generated a fascinating perspective on Open Building, given by (at least) five generations of architects.
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Open Building and User Agency: Early and Contemporary Experiments in the Netherlands
No full textThis chapter discusses the notion of ‘Open Building’ through its conceptualisations and implementations in the Netherlands since the 1960s until today. It focuses on the place of dwellers’ agency in the development of residential open buildings to investigate the potential of users’ empowerment. The ‘Open Building’ approach synthesises the principles of Habraken’s theory of ‘Support’ and ‘Infill’ developed as an alternative to post-war mass housing. Through innovations in decision-making and construction technology it promotes user participation and enables flexibility and change. The chapter discusses and compares the cases of Molenvliet, an early Open Building project for the social rental sector, and Superlofts, a series of contemporary ones where the architect and the residents have also become developers. It emphasises the political, and socio-economic context of the Open Building movement and how it has impacted the ability to meet its aims. Although its capacity to disrupt the housing system has remained limited it has expanded housing possibilities in the Netherlands.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Space & Typ
An Architecture Framework for Open Building
Full text linkArchitecture has been described as frozen music. Alternatively, open building proposes an evolving collaborative symbiotic performance. However, current practice in the building industry is motivated by short term‘ closed’ (frozen) building perspectives. The uptake of BIM technologies challenges current practice in architecture by extending the dimensions of the building model from the spatial to include commissioning, occupation and decommissioning data. In this sense, BIM provides information systems that could support a vision of open building, but the relationship between the building stakeholders, their needs and the BIM model is unclear. An approach is therefore sort that will enable both the occupants and the building design team to design buildings that can be adapted to their contemporary and future needs. In business, ‘enterprise architecture’ frameworks are often used to map the needs of an organization to its information systems. One of the earliest of these frameworks was based on observations of the design and construction of buildings. These frameworks are typically developed for use in a single organization. Alternatively, a‘community architecture’ framework has been proposed that can model the relationship between information systems and loosely connected and diverse stakeholders such as that found in open building. This paper represents an inversion of the ‘architectural framework’ back to buildings from its previous incubation in business. Here, the multi-dimensional ‘community architecture’ framework is adapted to address the identified challenges of supporting open building through an ‘open architecture framework‘ for itself and its stakeholders both now and in the future
Implementation of innovation: The inertia of implementing the open building concept in practice
No full textThe Open Building concept has been developed half a century ago. Despite the relative potential advantages to society, this concept of Open Building has not been widely implemented in the construction industry. Consequently, it did not lead to a general new approach of designing structures. Why does the construction industry use the Open building concept so rarely among their projects? Using in-depth semi-structured interviews with the \u91founding fathers\u92 of Open Building in combination with literature, the inertia which obstructs the implementation of Open building in the construction industry are identified. The study shows that inertia on adopting the principles of Open Building are primarily related to the type of collaboration between firms on construction projects. Only few impediments are of technical nature
WeGrowCo: an open-building strategy
No full textWeGrowCo, reintroduced the open-building ideology of John Habraken and Frans van der Werf within the organic design proces of a new neighborhood at Strandeiland, Ijburg. WeGrowCo proves that open-building has a large potential to grow, make and build adaptable and self-sufficient neighborhoods together with inhabitants. Before buildings are designed, emphasis is led on the creation of a local biobased production line, including hemp fields and facilities, for the production of hempcrete. The facilities will eventually grow/evolve into entrance courtyards while the hemp fields naturally fertilizes the unfertile ground of Strandeiland. This creates the possibility for inhabitants to choose between different green courtyards with different types of in-between spaces. The social and ecological potential of this in-between space is further explored in the research paper.One-million homes studioValuable neighborhoods studioArchitecture, Urbanism and Building Science
OB-DFD: Open Building - Designed for Disassembly
No full textResearch and design for a more circular built environment, focused on the 'open building typology' and the technical aspects of 'design for disassembly'. Design focused on the city of Groningen.One million home
The requirement for implementation of open building system in terrace houses in Malaysia
No full textMalaysian construction industry has been challenged by increasing demand for new buildings due to high economic growth. Therefore, there have been some enhancements in the building industry. However, the current procedure of construction in Malaysia will lead to problems in the future as a result of building inability for renovation, reactivation of role and maintenance. For any above actions the only way is demolition of buildings or parts of the building that leads to consuming more than double of resource and time. The open building system can be an alternative solution to shift the conventional construction method in the direction of adaptability. The aim of this study is to investigate the level of consuming cost and time for renovation in terraced houses in Malaysia. Moreover, this research focuses on to identify the barriers to implementation of Open Building System in Malaysia. The third purpose is to introduce different design scenarios that will be suitable based on the requirements of a selected case study occupation. A survey was conducted among inhabitants to find expended time and cost for renovation during their occupation period. The second questionnaire was designed to understand the main obstacles in the implementation of Open Building System in Malaysia in view of construction participants. Besides, different layouts were drawn in AutoCAD software, with all architectural details, to help the building to be more adaptable to the requirements and preferences of various residents. As a result, it was identified that residents spend a quarter of house purchase value for renovation and the average expended time for renovation is more than 2 months. On the hand, the most influential barriers are insufficient instruction and unfamiliarity of construction participants with Open Building System Concep
OPEN rooms. From Open Building to Future Healthcare Spaces
No full textIntroduction. In recent years, many studies have revealed the increasing rate of hospital obsolescence: this fact is a reflection of the fast pace at which contemporary society and medical knowledge evolve. The main challenge is to realize flexible healthcare facilities able to update their services in time.
Objective. Starting from the Open Building design approach, the current development of prefabricated technologies in construction industry and the application of Plug-In users’ rooms in hotel facilities, a multidisciplinary research group (coordinated by the authors) develops a new approach in flexibility in hospital wards with the Open Room, predisposed to respond to several functions.
Methodology. The design approach is structured into three areas: Primary System, the structural framework in which the modules are plugged; Secondary System, through the Plug-In approach, represents the prefabricated sub-structures that host the skeleton with all the implants and needs for all the typologies of hospital rooms; Tertiary System, that features both the furniture and all the finishing elements, that allows to quickly transform the room.
Outcomes. The resulting product is a prefabricated room, transportable in three parts and able to accommodate a variety of fit-out changes: the interior is defined by a series of customizable wall panels with foldable furniture and integrated functions; the tripartition of the sub-structures provides the possibility of removing the room and repurpose the building.
Conclusion. The research work started as a concept and it was developed for giving rise to a new approach in design that overcome the old utopic concepts of plug-in architecture. Thanks to the technological developments it provides intrinsic flexibility that allows care quality improvement directly empowering the hospital to update its services during time
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