Architectural Design Review

The shortage of development land makes it necessary to recover old spaces. The solutions chosen are many and varied, ranging from a total change of function to an adaptation of the old use, according to the specific problems of each case. This volume presents the different schools and tendencies within the current world of architectural rehabilitation. Despite their plurality, the proposals contained here are characterized by the fact that they integrate the new needs with a maximum respect for the existing structures and concepts.

This book connects the different topics and professions involved in information technology approaches to architectural design, ranging from computer-aided design, building information modeling and programming to simulation, digital representation, augmented and virtual reality, digital fabrication and physical computation.

This book presents a design methodology that is practically applicable to the architectural design of a broad range of systems. It is based on fundamental design concepts to conceive and specify the required functional properties of a system, while abstracting from the specific implementation functions and technologies that can be chosen to build the system.