interior architecture Tag

Interior Architecture for Historic New York City Buildings

Interior Architecture for Historic New York City Buildings

Preservation and renovation of interior architecture in historic buildings involves a careful and detailed structural assessment of the materials, environment, and applied stresses to ensure that the existing walls, floors, and other load bearing structures are structurally safe. This structural assessment can involve a visual inspection to assess the structural integrity of load bearing walls and joints. Structure can also...

Interior Architecture in Adaptive Reuse

Adaptive Reuse in Interior Architecture

There are two types of interior architecture, the initial design/usage plan, and adaptive reuse, or the redesign of an existing space to serve a new purpose.  According to Wikipedia: Adaptive reuse refers to the process of reusing an old site or building for a purpose other than which it was built or designed for. It can be regarded as a compromise...