Quantitative assessment of deconstruction buildings using a Building Deconstruction Matrix

Modeling Semantics for Building Deconstruction

In this paper we discuss the motivation, the technology, the design and the use-model of a novel web service for quantity surveyors, aiming to exploit virtual and augmented reality methods to implement a “zero waste” model, i.e. a new design paradigm where the waste materials from demolition become resources for reconstruction. The goal of this project is to provide virtual/augmented reality to...

Deconstruction in a nutshell.

What is deconstruction? Nothing, of course. (Derrida, 1991, p. 275) . . . deconstruction doesn’t consist in a set of theorems, axioms, tools, rules, techniques, methods . . . there is no deconstruction, deconstruction has no specific object . . . (Derrida, 1996, p. 218) . . . deconstruction is neither an analysis nor a critique. . . . I would say the same about method. Deconstruction is not a m...

Improving the Feasibility of Building Deconstruction and Adaptability

Design for Adaptability and Deconstruction (DfAD) is an emerging trend in the construction industry that focuses on the end-of-life aspect of buildings. It is based on the concept that the life of a building or building component ends because it is unable to adapt to change. With proper implementation, DfAD is an important tool to achieve sustainable design for buildings, as it ideally may form...

Spherical Deconstruction

We present evidence that N = 1 * SUSY Yang-Mills provides a decon-struction of a six-dimensional gauge theory compactified on a two-sphere. The six-dimensional theory is a twisted compactification of N = (1, 1) SUSY Yang-Mills theory of the type considered by Maldacena and Nunez (MN) in [1]. In particular, we calculate the full classical spectrum of the N = 1 * theory with gauge group U (N) in ...

Caring for Deconstruction