Adaptation Strategies for Interior Architecture and Design
- Submitting institution
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Royal College of Art(The)
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- Brooker2
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- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- ISBN
- 9781472567130
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
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- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The Interior is a relatively young discipline and profession, one that is still in the processes of defining its histories, theories, and its currency in relation to practice-based research. ‘Adaptations’ examines building reuse as a critical approach to the comprehension of practice-based research in the discipline. Its contribution to new knowledge is evidenced through the formation of eight unique specific strategic processes, approaches that were determined through the analysis and synthesis of a wide-range of already-built practice case studies. This knowledge was determined through a two-year international search of projects, the visiting of over one hundred case studies, examining the resultant work on site along with analysing process work such as drawings, models, and conducting interviews with practitioners from the UK to Japan and the USA. These were assisted by a DAIWA scholarship and a National Teaching Fellow Award.
Described as ‘a key volume in bringing to the wider design world an understanding of the theory and strategy behind interior architecture’ (Rachel Simmonds, RIAS Magazine Review, 2017), this research defines emergent discourses on the relationship between theory and practice in the interior. The work provides a theoretical framework for the clarification of the principles, processes, theories and histories of the discipline. I did this project in order to evolve a theoretical framework for comprehending the reuse of existing buildings as critical to practice-based interior research. The value of the work resided in the advancing of new processes and strategies, determined through the critical analysis of the research and the studies. Rigour was demonstrated through the analysis of archives, literature reviews and site visits to determine eight unique processes which were represented through a broad and international series of case studies. The framework is meticulously arranged through defining each strategic approach, and then each is illustrated through text and image.
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