Open House International: Volume 30 Issue 1

Editorial

Nicholas Wilkinson

This first issue of 2005 contains a selection of some articles from the recent Open Building conference on Sustainable Environment held in Paris at the CSTB headquarters in…

Open Building & Sustainable Environment

Stephen Kendall

With new urgency, governments, private corporations and institutions and private citizens are demanding sustainable new construction, regenerative neighborhoods and building…

Change and the Distribution of Design

N. John Habraken

In Januari 1699 Jules Hardouin Mansart, Superintendent of Buildings and “Premier Architecte” to Louis-le-Grand, king of France, put his signature to the design for what we now…

Open Building in Health Care Architecture: The Case of the Ino Project in Bern, Switzerland

Stefan Geiser

The west surgery wing of the University Hospital “Insel” in Bern, which was completed in 1971, no longer meets operational requirements. A decision was made in 1995 that it must…

Incremental Urban and Dwelling Proposals in Guanajuato, Mexico

Andrea Martin-Chavez, Jorge Andrade

An International Competition of Architecture, Urban Development and Sustainable Housing, was held in Mexico in 2001. The aim of the contest was to create a vanguard and…

A Quantitative Assessment of the Environmental Impact of Flexible Partitions

Jia Beisi

Each person in Hong Kong produces three times more waste than that of Singapore. This is because a large portion of the waste in Hong Kong is from the construction sector…

Open Building, Energy and Sustainability: The Import of Leed™ Rating

Robert J. Koester

This paper addresses opportunities available for meeting sustainability objectives in building construction by using the conceptual alignments of Open Building and LEED^™ Rating…

A New Way of Looking at Flexibility

Bernard Leupen

Houses have an average life span of about a hundred years, whereas households and habitats can change radically and repeatedly during that time. Consequently house designers are…

Flex−Buildings Designed to Change

Jacques Vink

Flex−buildings are buildings which are literally designed to change. A flex−building must be able to accept different infills and its users must be able to easily adapt their…

Open Building Principles: An Academic Exploration in Soshanguve, South Africa

Amira Osman, Catherine Lemmer

The Department of Architecture at the University of Pretoria is working in the South African housing context while gaining knowledge of such issues worldwide. Various innovations…

Open Building for Epidemic Prevention and Control in Urban Community

Li-Chu Lin

The outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in Asia and North America has raised much concern from all angles and reflections on nowadays living environment that…

Small House Projects in Japan Housing Experiments for Open-Building Concept

Nobuhisa Motooka, Shin Murakami, Eiichi Tobe

Focusing on small houses has become one of the recent trends in housing design in Japan, as has been observed in many house design works. Periodical coverage can tell that the…

Book Reviews

Robert Brown, Ayona Datta, Germán T. Cruz, Robert J. Koester, George R. Smith

OWNERSHIP, LEADERSHIP AND TRANSFORMATION CAN WE DO BETTER FOR CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT?CHALLENGE OF SLUMS: GLOBAL REPORT ON HUMAN SETTLEMENTS 2003SMALL CHANGE ABOUT THE ART OF PRACTICE…