The Extraction of Prerequisite Criteria for Environmentally Certified Adaptive Reuse of Heritage Buildings

Elnaz Farjami and Özlem Olgaç Türker
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Elnaz Farjami: Department of Architecture, Eastern Mediterranean University, 99628 Famagusta, Turkey
Özlem Olgaç Türker: Department of Interior Architecture, Eastern Mediterranean University, 99628 Famagusta, Turkey

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 6, 1-27

Abstract: Heritage buildings provide a remarkable value for both the culture and the region where they are located; hence, there is a necessity for them to be conserved. Sustaining heritage buildings for future generations serves cultural sustainability and can be achieved through adaptive reuse with appropriate functions as an efficient conservation approach. Moreover, harnessing the embedded energy from adaptive reuse and the improvement of environmental performance in heritage buildings plays a significant role in ecological sustainability. The aim of the study was to investigate environmental rating systems (ERS) as ecological sustainability evaluation tools and to find out mutual aspects with adaptive reuse models (ARM), thus, serving cultural sustainability.

Keywords: architectural conservation; cultural sustainability; ecological sustainability; environmental rating systems; adaptive reuse models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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