Flexibility and Design : Learning from the School Construction Systems Development (SCSD) Project PDF
by Joshua D. Lee
Part of the Routledge Research in Architecture series
Description
This book questions flexibility as a design approach by providing a longitudinal analysis of an innovative architectural experiment called the School Construction Systems Development (SCSD) project.
The SCSD pioneered the use of performance specifications to create an open, prefabricated, and integrated system of building components that provided four modes of flexibility.
Educational facilities throughout California used the SCSD system and it spawned a variety of similar projects throughout North America.
This book traces the development and subsequent use of the system over 50 years through archival research, personal observations, re-photography, re-surveying, plan evaluations, interviews, and an advertisement analysis.
These new findings provide useful insights for architects, educators, historic preservationists, and others about the affordances of spatial flexibility, the difficulties associated with technological transfer, the impact of unstable market conditions, the importance of user input during the planning process, and the need for long-term social relations to sustain architectural experiments.
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- Pages:200 pages, 8 Tables, black and white; 33 Line drawings, black and white; 28 Halftones, black and whi
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:07/12/2018
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- ISBN:9781351400886
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:200 pages, 8 Tables, black and white; 33 Line drawings, black and white; 28 Halftones, black and whi
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:07/12/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9781351400886
