Byera Hadley research reports
Hugo Chan / 2019
Alternative Realities
Adaptive Reuse
London, Hong Kong, United States
This study explores the adaptive reuse of architecture through field research and semi- structured face-to-face interviews. Case study projects in four cities, Hong Kong, New York, London and Sydney, are used to interrogate the different policies and approaches for how buildings of different heritage significance are retained, restored and adaptively reused. This research project endeavours to illustrate how the architectural and design professions can transform existing buildings into new spatial experiences as part of the inevitable, temporal evolution of our urban fabrics.
Interviews have been documented by Audio-visual means with a transcript of each interview in English as appendices to the study. The field research involved the photographing and/or filming of the buildings and freehand notation and drawings to record significant design components and architectural details.
