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<p>Architecture - both urban and building scale - always strongly reflects the current social and cultural context. This is of course no different today: the topics that currently define our world - climate change, sustainability, environmental protection, housing poverty... - strongly influence design, sometimes with the stringency of legislation, sometimes as a matter of conscience. Within the framework of the architectural education in Debrecen - student assignments and departmental projects - we often seek answers to the question of what other professional approaches can be found, which could even show an alternative to the current engineering and technological answers that are so intensively present in everyday life. This is one of the ways we think about sustainability, where our primary objective is to show the hidden values and reserves of existing places - buildings, urban spaces - and how currently under-used situations can serve new functional needs with small-scale interventions without significant investment.</p>
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Architecture - both urban and building scale - always strongly reflects the current social and cultural context. This is of course no different today: the topics that currently define our world - climate change, sustainability, environmental protection, housing poverty... - strongly influence design, sometimes with the stringency of legislation, sometimes as a matter of conscience. Within the framework of the architectural education in Debrecen - student assignments and departmental projects - we often seek answers to the question of what other professional approaches can be found, which could even show an alternative to the current engineering and technological answers that are so intensively present in everyday life. This is one of the ways we think about sustainability, where our primary objective is to show the hidden values and reserves of existing places - buildings, urban spaces - and how currently under-used situations can serve new functional needs with small-scale interventions without significant investment.

Small Scale Interventions in Debrecen as a Method of Sustainability

YBL Journal of Built Environment

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Architecture - both urban and building scale - always strongly reflects the current social and cultural context. This is of course no different today: the...

Small Scale Interventions in Debrecen as a Method of Sustainability

Article Category: Reuse the Space

Published Online: Jun 22, 2024

Page range: 98 - 103

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jbe-2024-0010

Keywords
sustainability, small-scale intervention, reuse

© 2024 Tamás Szentirmai, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Small Scale Interventions in Debrecen as a Method of Sustainability

Article Category: Reuse the Space

Published Online: Jun 22, 2024

Page range: 98 - 103

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jbe-2024-0010

Keywordssustainability, small-scale intervention, reuse

© 2024 Tamás Szentirmai, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords
sustainability, small-scale intervention, reuse