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Adaptive Reuse

Working with what already stands — the most sustainable structure is usually the existing one.

Surveys, structural negotiation and the argument for keeping buildings rather than replacing them.

Adaptive Reuse
What we keep: a survey before a scheme

Before drawing anything on an existing building we spend a fortnight recording what is already there. It changes the project more often than the brief does.

Mara Okonkwo 21 Jan 2026

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Filed under adaptive reuse, and still open.

These notes come out of projects in progress. If one of them speaks to something you are planning, we would rather hear about it than leave it theoretical.

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What we keep: a survey before a scheme

Filed under adaptive reuse, and still open.