Big Box Reuse - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Big Box Reuse write by Julia Christensen. This book was released on 2008. Big Box Reuse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What happens to the landscape, to community, and to the population when vacated big box stores are turned into community centers, churches, schools, and libraries? America is becoming a container landscape of big boxes connected by highways. When a big box store upsizes to an even bigger box "supercenter" down the road, it leaves behind more than the vacant shell of a retail operation; it leaves behind a changed landscape that can't be changed back. Acres of land have been paved around it. Highway traffic comes to it; local roads end at it. With thousands of empty big box stores spread across America, these vistas have become a dominant feature of the American landscape. In Big Box Reuse, Julia Christensen shows us how ten communities have addressed this problem, turning vacated Wal-Marts and Kmarts into something else: a church, a library, a school, a medical center, a courthouse, a recreation center, a museum, or other more civic-minded structures. In each case, what was once a shopping destination becomes a center of community life. Christensen crisscrossed America identifying these projects, then photographed, videotaped, and interviewed the people involved. The first-person accounts and color photographs of Big Box Reuse reveal the hidden stories behind the transformation of these facades into gateways of community life. Whether a big box store becomes a "Senior Resource Center" or a museum devoted to Spam (the kind that comes in a can), each renovation displays a community's resourcefulness and creativity--but also raises questions about how big box buildings affect the lives of communities. What does it mean for us and for the future of America if the spaces of commerce built by a few monolithic corporations become the sites where education, medicine, religion, and culture are dispensed wholesale to the populace?
Adaptive Reuse of the Big Box Store
Adaptive Reuse of the Big Box Store - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Adaptive Reuse of the Big Box Store write by Mark C. Roderick. This book was released on 2009. Adaptive Reuse of the Big Box Store available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Choose to Reuse
Choose to Reuse - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Choose to Reuse write by Lisa Bullard. This book was released on 2017-08-01. Choose to Reuse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. We all throw away too much stuff! Watch Tyler find ways to reuse his old things. Can you think of new uses for items you would have tossed? Do your part to be a planet protector! Discover how to reduce, reuse, recycle, and more with Tyler and Trina in the Planet Protectors series, part of the Cloverleaf BooksTM collection. These nonfiction picture books feature kid-friendly text and illustrations to make learning fun!
Recycling of Architecture
Recycling of Architecture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Recycling of Architecture write by Richard L. Butera (II.). This book was released on 2009. Recycling of Architecture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Re-dressing the Big Box
Re-dressing the Big Box - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Re-dressing the Big Box write by Sara Lauren McCord. This book was released on 2009. Re-dressing the Big Box available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This thesis focused on the reuse of abandoned big box stores. These buildings are often left behind when stores close or relocate. Rather than remaining empty or being torn down and transported to a landfill, these buildings can be adapted for new uses as an alternative to the clearing and developing of new land. The goal of this project was to develop a system of typologies of intervention that take advantage of the potential for adaptation in big boxes. Unlike a design of one solution for a particular site and program, these solutions are applicable to almost any big box reuse. Three phases of the project focused on strategies for modifying the building skin to provide natural light, developing clear paths of circulation, and bringing activity to the site. The typologies of intervention developed in these investigations were refined into a set of twenty-four design elements: recommendations and solutions for the typical problems of adapting a big box. These design elements were presented in a handbook written for big box owners, developers, local governments, communities, and architects to inspire the future reuse of big box buildings.
