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outique accommodations also had a category on the topic of
Renovation & Modification in addition to other themes.
Likewise, international architectural design awards such as
AR New into Old awards by the Architectural Review magazine
particularly addresses creative adaptive reuse projects. It is
also notable that social media today plays a part in increasing
familiarity of adaptive reuse of old buildings for the public.
Online articles via web board, web logs or Facebook posts to
review building renovation projects concerning both physical
characteristics and renewed functions promote such
practices, while encouraging the public to see the potential of
previously-occupied buildings and their benefits in terms of
investment, function and conservation of their history and
values.
Conclusion: from the Past to the Future of
Adaptive Reuse
Adaptive Reuse or Adaptive Use is a process of returning
to the active use of an old building in an approach other
than that for which it was designed for and requiring varying
levels of physical modification to the building. It is considered
a useful way to return to the active life to an old structure, be
it a historic artifact or a previously-occupied contemporary
building, to achieve its functional potential, promote and
protect its integrative values in terms of history, art, architecture,
culture, economy and resources. Adaptive reuse projects in
Thailand are developed to achieve varying causes and objectives,
from being a tool to safeguarding cultural heritage and as an
approach to utilize existing structures. Such implementations
are considered more convenient and economical in many
cases when compared to constructing a new building, while
the process also generates income to at least partly cover the
structure’s restoration and maintenance costs. Building conversion
in the past can be found in the tradition of donating
old Thai houses to Buddhist temples or to dismantle and
reassemble it in another location. A number of vacant palaces
and noble residences have been converted into governmental
or institutional offices when there were no longer in use.
Adaptive reuse in the past as a conservation approach usually
concerned architectural hierarchy related to social ranking,
history and original uses, resulted in rather conservative
adaptations of the historical artifacts into museums and
governmental offices. As conservation methods and modern
ways of life have become increasingly more open for interpretations,
we have seen more adaptive reuse case studies for
public and commercial uses, many of which are operated by
private sectors, for example, retail, restaurants, tourist accommodations
and small businesses. Many projects were developed
as a result of economic and social conditions. Recently, the
practice of adaptive reuse shows a wider variation, especially
its application on industrial structures such as underused
factories and warehouses, to support activities fitting with
lifestyles and tastes of today’s generations. Regardless of
principal objectives and reasons of building adaptations either
to hide failures or to preserve cultural heritage and glory of
the past, it is undeniably an interesting and efficient solution
to address and respond to changing needs. Functional conversion
has been considered a challenging condition for both
proprietors and architects to develop the project and propose
appropriate designs in order to protect values and present
potentials of the architecture, while carefully retaining a good
balance between conservation and development. qualities,
including planning, structure and related building
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ในพระบรมราชูปถัมภ์ Issue 02 / 2018
Academic Journal of The Association of Siamese Architects
under the Royal Patronage
วารสารสถาปัตยกรรมของสมาคมสถาปนิกสยาม
ในพระบรมราชูปถัมภ์ Issue 02 / 2018
Academic Journal of The Association of Siamese Architects
under the Royal Patronage