schiemann weyers
architects

'adaptable design', research project

research on design tools for a sustainable living environment
research team: Jörn Schiemann
projects: Jörn Schiemann / DKV architecten
support: University of Delft, Faculty of Architecture, Bernhard Leupen

The research focuses on specific typological models on the levels of housing and urban planning. These models have been selected because of their inherent qualities of being programmatically flexible.
The aim is to develop a ‘design tool kit’, containing archetypical models to be implemented into a new design-context. By doing so, it is possible to investigate potential qualities and quantities - and to develop potentional alternative strategies. The research is based on a historical approach, elaborating the characteristic features of the postulated categories. In the second part of the investigation, a range of architectonic models / prototypes is introduced and their capacities are analysed.
The selection of projects shows a range of models, some of them conceptual, that have mostly been developed during the period of collaborating with DKV architects.
By practising the strategy of ‘adaptable design’ the opportunity arises to create a living environment of great sustainability. Designs that are conceptualised as programmatically flexible / neutral from the very beginning, will maintain these qualities during the process of aging and make possible to adapt to future needs.

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