• DOI:10.1080/09613218.2014.873593
• Corpus ID: 110284804

Resilience in the built environment

@article{Hassler2014ResilienceIT,
  title={Resilience in the built environment},
  author={Uta Hassler and Niklaus Kohler},
  journal={Building Research \& Information},
  year={2014},
  volume={42},
  pages={119 - 129}
}

• U. Hassler, N. Kohler
• Published 16 January 2014
• Engineering
• Building Research & Information

A new arena? Resilience, as a design principle, was an implicit part of traditional construction knowledge before the 19th century. The oversizing of components and spaces, redundancy, and reparability were forms of tacit construction knowledge (Schön, 1983) that enhanced the resilience of buildings. In contrast, the modern engineering concept of resilience originated from material technology in the 19th century. This modern approach replaced the traditional dimensioning rules by formal rules of calculation (based on experiment) in order to optimize both (structural) safety and the (reduced) consumption of materials. Resilience as a long-term design principle and resilience as a functional, disciplinary model (i.e. the application of resilience in structural engineering) are not identical; and in some situations can be contradictory. The former approach provides for unknown uses and adaption, the latter focuses on providing a specific, tailored solution to one particular brief and set of functions.