Adaptive Reuse of real estate

Ignoring the destructive and wasteful process of demolishing and reconstructing helps the environment to reap the advantages of adaptive reuse (Elrod et al 16). Social benefits of reusing or recycling the valued buildings together with environmental benefits and the energy savings place a high premium of adaptive reuse of the existing buildings and make it a very important component of the sustainable development. By definition, the adaptive reuse is a term that is used to describe the process which changes an ineffective item or a disused item into something new which can be utilized for a purpose other than the originally intended purpose. There are sometimes when there will be no much changes on the item except its use. In this essay, the item in consideration is a building.

Adaptive reuse candidates Candidate 1 I live in Philadelphia. The first candidate for adaptive reuse in my area is Germantown high school. I thought this would be a great idea for reusing it to have dental health services because it is well partitioned. The school has different offices, classrooms, washrooms and other different facilities, which would be very appropriate for this case scenario. A dentist needs an office for him or herself, several offices for other workers, consultation rooms, laboratories and other services. So there was need for a better facility. The plot of land was selected because of its accessibility to public transport, openness and its flatness. The school served both the local community and the neighboring communities. This is one of the reasons why the facility still has potential of being used effectively.

It is easily accessible, it has a vast expansion space and it is seated on a flat area. It used to manufacture silk, dye, woolen yarns and cotton. It is a four story building made of bricks and extends to the Front Street. Textile manufacturing in the city of Philadelphia was diverse all the time, and many employees were employed in the specialty operations that were distinct from weaving like carpet and hosiery manufacturing, dyeing, sinning and finishing the fabrics and yarns. In the year 1891, Quaker dye works was operational within the same location but the only change was that the ownership was probably transferred to some other people. In the year 1910, it was clear that the ownership had changed (Bullen 23).

So its original plan upon construction is that it would be used as a bank. The bank then grew in popularity, and in the year 1985 it had earned some recognition in the register of historic sites (Langston 163). However, despite such great achievements, the building has remained abandoned for the last over twenty years. it is situated some blocks south along the Broad Street. The insides of the building are mainly gutted, and there exists only some glimmers of financial prowess which were at some point in time housed in the building. In this case scenario, a dentist needs a place with several rooms for offices, consultation rooms and laboratories for the dental procedures. Since the dentist will be the only one in the area, then room for expansion is a very important factor to consider.