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Thesis (M.Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1981. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH. / Bibliography: p. 259-263. / Architectural preservation in America has led to an increase in imitative architecture in many sectors of the profession and, as one architectural historian has pointed out, there is no historical precedent for imitative architecture. Fortunately, buildings can only rarely be preserved in a static form: they grow, evolve, and change in response to many circumstances. Too often the form of an addition or extension is determined by aligning cornice lines, using the same building materials, the same window and doors, and a similar roof structure. Essential formal issues are often not addressed. Four case studies are made, each being either an addition, an extension, or a transformation. Differing sizes and scales are explored. Accesses and circulation options are studied, as well as room sizes design decisions. Mostly drawings comprise the work, and they are additive form studies. / by Robert Peabody Brown, Jr. / M.Arch.

This Thesis explored background and benefits of recycling of buildings as a method to solve architectural problems. Industrial buildings were selected as significant examples. This study discussed and analyzed the economical, historical and cultural contexts which generate the recycling movement in architecture. The major economical and architectural benefits were identified and described. A methodology of recycling was developed for professional practice. This included the outline of a feasibility study to recycle an existing building. Case studies supplemented by a photographical documentation described and comparatively analyzed five different recycling projects.In addition, this study discussed the classification of recycling of buildings as a modern movement in architecture, analyzed future trends and developed future strategies. / Department of Architecture

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Thesis. 1977. M.Arch.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH. / Bibliography : leaf 58. / by Marcia K. Hnatowich. / M.Arch.

Thesis. 1976. M.Arch.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. / Microfiche copy available in Archives and Rotch. / Bibliography: leaves 69-71. / M.Arch.

published_or_final_version / Housing Management / Master / Master of Housing Management

This dissertation explains the emergence of adaptive reuse from economic and real estate development perspectives, and defines the particular circumstance in property acquisition that is favourable to adaptive reuse. The recent booming real estate market in Hong Kong is a favourable economic environment for redevelopment through demolition, but there is still room for adaptive reuse whereby existing buildings can be conserved. According to the economic theory of transaction cost, difficulties in implementing redevelopment scheme with demolition can absorb some of the financial incentives offered by this development activity such that adaptive reuse, the alternative option, becomes feasible. The well-documented difficulties in property acquisition particularly in the final stage involving ownership consolidation and site amalgamation should be one of the main causes for such transaction costs that make the demolition-and-redevelopment proposal abandoned. Such relationship between the difficulties in acquisition of outstanding property ownership and feasibility of adaptive reuse is verified by an empirical study on the actual development activities within the period of post-SARS property boom in a selected urban area in Hong Kong. Despite that there exist such favourable factors causing developers to settle for the adaptive reuse scheme, its sustainability is questioned. Fortunately, there are coming opportunities that enable local purchasers and developers to recognize the value and trading potential of adaptive reuse properties, which is a positive sign for sustainable success of conservation by developers through adaptive reuse in Hong Kong. / published_or_final_version / Conservation / Master / Master of Science in Conservation

This thesis has traced the development and demise of Allen Chapel Terrace Estates. Its purpose has been to identify why the project failed and presented alternative proposals for the reuse of the complex. This was done within the framework of actual funding possibilities which exist at the present time.The thesis was developed by presenting the project history, program characteristics, demographic information, demand and supply, project financing, and the reuse alternative suggestions. / Department of Urban Planning

Solitude, one of the original buildings on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, is a possible site for restoration because of its significance to the University and to the community. This study attempted to determine the most likely amount, type, style, and quality of furnishings used at Solitude between 1830 and 1880, when it was the home of Robert and Mary Preston, the last private owners. To help identify and interpret furnishings for this home, several areas were researched: the history of the building including the remodeling done by Robert Preston, the lifestyle of the Prestons, the availability of goods in the Blacksburg area before and after the coming of the railroad, and an examination of existing documents, such as appraisements, that listed furnishings used by the Prestons and by other residents of Montgomery County. An analysis of the findings showed that the furniture may have been a combination of older, locally made pieces, and newer, factory-made ones, some of which may have been in the Rococo Revival style. Compared with the other appraisements studied, the furnishings of the Prestons were moderately to highly priced, indicating that theirs was one of the more comfortable homes in the area. / Master of Science