Adaptable Architecture

In this paper a framework is created for categorizing adaptable architecture. The term adaptable architecture describes an architecture from which specific components can be changed in response to external stimuli, for example the users or environment. This change could be executed by the building system itself, transformed manually or could be any other ability to transform by an external force. Different levels of adaptation are determined to pinpoint the relations between the different connotations of adaptable. Realized adaptable projects are studied to define the relation of innovation and realization. To generalize the outcome of the analyses the different components of the building are categorized.