Joyce Wang & Almut Grüntuch-Ernst: Adapting the Existing




• How to turn a prison into a hotel and a ammunitions storage hall into a restaurant
• What are the main challenges when re-purposing a space and how can these be overcome?
• Is there anything the original designers could have done differently to aid the conversion if they had known the space would see a change of use
• What types of spaces are the most challenging in respect of flexibility and adaptability?

Joyce Wang, Principal, Wang
Almut Grüntuch-Ernst, Principal, Grüntuch-Ernst Architekten
Chair: Nigel Coates, Principal, Nigel Coates Studio


Source by World Architecture Festival

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