upcycling the built environment?

building reuse or building recycling maybe? If you add building in there it will give them direction. Then you can give an example like: turning a paper mill into artist lofts and studio apartments or a warehouse into a gym

thanks.

"experts at building reuse" seems to be the consences.

oh well.

'refurbishing buildings'

dsc, here's an example for you; tell them that when their local strip mall converted to a ghost town, because the Circuit City went belly up, that you can reuse the existing big box failure, and adapt it to a community clinic, that will serve HIV/AIDS patients in the community.

ewww get aids away from my starbucks.

i do need no sarcoma in my latte.

hahaha wow

"adaptive reuse" is a bit redundant anyway, right? how about:

adaptive building use
building core reuse
architectural retrofit
re-purposed building design

building conversion
building adaptation

According to Douglas 2006, Building Adaptation, there are several terms depending on the level of intervention and risk of obsolescence (fa spectrum between maintenance and reconstruction):

Preservation (arrest decay)
Conservation (preserve purposefully)
Refurbishment (facelift/ makeover)
Rehabilitation (modernize)
Renovation (upgrade)
Remodeling (improve/ extend)
Restoration (bring back)
Demolition

You could also check out adaptabilefutures.com project.

Wow rsiii, that helps me a lot.

I agree with rsiii, most people will know the terms, 'rehab' and 'renovate'; mostly from watching hgtv.

Thanks everyone,

We are now leaning toward...

Remodeling and redevelopment of existing buildings with an emphasis in restaurants.

dsc_arch...are you hiring??

I wish we were. We are holding on right now -albeit by a wing and prayer. We are surviving mainly because of existing contacts and the that we build most of our remodeling projects for our clients.

We have seen a lot of carnage in our area over the past year. we are focusing on our niche. remodeling and redevelopment of existing buildings, i n our area, requires an architect.

good luck tinydancer.

Revised three:

DSC specializes in remodeling and redevelopment of existing buildings with an emphasis in restaurants, houses, and commercial centers.

thanks anyway! it is hard out there and frustrating!

dsc specializes in existing building redevelopment and remodeling with a focus on restaurants, residential and commercial centers......

maybe??????

oops

Take four:

DSC specializes in the remodeling and redevelopment of existing buildings with an emphasis in restaurants, houses, and commercial centers.

BTW this is what we have been doing for 10 years just not said very well.

80 grit.

must be my summer cold. i mis read your thought above and replied too soon.

there is a sound bite version going too:

Your remodeling and redevelopment superstar.

"superstar is a bit too pretentious for me.

i think it means do not reuse juz for the sake of reuse... there are some building is deemed not to exist^^

After reading excerpts from the BUILDING ADAPTATION book listed above (great book BTW) We have settled on the following tag-line: refurbish, remodel, redevelop. We had to dumb it down - way down -- after talking with many clients who got lost on the redevelopment - but got refurbish.

go figure.