Adaptive use and reuse: a time-specific process

Reuse, in its different forms and meanings, is one of the crucial topics currently being explored from a cross-disciplinary perspective. This paper, considering the status of the speculation on the topic, introduces the concept of adaptive reuse as a time-specific strategy for keeping the building active, both from a material and immaterial point of view, mediating the relationship with the past and its different layered meanings. The conceptual framework is built around the idea that the built environment is always time-specific; it is planned and realised according to specific needs in a specific timeframe. In this perspective, every further adaptation is meant to keep the architecture updated to be suitable for the new timeframe: adaptive reuse is intended as a process that uses different tools and tactics to keep the buildings active. Reused buildings merge the values of the original construction and of subsequent adaptations. The evaluation of the adaptive reuse process relates to the capacity to add a new layer of sense to the existing significance and to the quality of reusability that the intervention achieves (Fig. 1)

Long-Range Dependence in Financial Markets: a Moving Average Cluster Entropy Approach

A perspective is taken on the intangible complexity of economic and social systems by investigating the underlying dynamical processes that produce, store and transmit information in financial time series in terms of the \textit{moving average cluster entropy}. An extensive analysis has evidenced market and horizon dependence of the \textit{moving average cluster entropy} in real world financial assets. The origin of the behavior is scrutinized by applying the \textit{moving average cluster entropy} approach to long-range correlated stochastic processes as the Autoregressive Fractionally Integrated Moving Average (ARFIMA) and Fractional Brownian motion (FBM). To that end, an extensive set of series is generated with a broad range of values of the Hurst exponent $H$ and of the autoregressive, differencing and moving average parameters $p,d,q$. A systematic relation between \textit{moving average cluster entropy}, \textit{Market Dynamic Index} and long-range correlation parameters $H$, $d$ is observed. This study shows that the characteristic behaviour exhibited by the horizon dependence of the cluster entropy is related to long-range positive correlation in financial markets. Specifically, long range positively correlated ARFIMA processes with differencing parameter $d\simeq 0.05$, $d\simeq 0.15$ and $d\simeq 0.25$ are consistent with \textit{moving average cluster entropy} results obtained in time series of DJIA, S\&P500 and NASDAQ

DRAFT 04

A collection of ideas, processes and projects Interior Architecture & Design Middlesex University Editors David Fern Francesca Muriald

Universidades Corporativas Catarinenses: uma análise teórica

Um mercado cada vez mais competitivo se apresenta no mundo empresarial e a inovação para as organizações é o melhor meio para a sobrevivência. Para assegurar a inovação constante, as organizações se convencem que investir na educação de seu capital mais valioso - o capital humano - é fundamental. Neste ínterim, há uma nova forma de educação se propagando pelo meio empresarial. Com um foco na estratégia, as Universidades Corporativas (UCs) inovam ao oferecer novas competências e habilidades para todos os níveis da organização. Com vista a esta moderna e transformadora revolução do antigo departamento de Treinamento & Desenvolvimento, este estudo procurou analisar as características, de acordo com a literatura da área, de quatro UCs de companhias catarinenses, são elas: Sadia SA (com sede em São Paulo), Fundição Tupy (com sede em Joinville), Datasul (com sede em Joinville)e Tigre (com sede em Joinville)

The invisible interior: an investigative approach

Evidence, noun, verb The quality or condition of being evident; clearness, evidentness; in evidence [after French en évidence] actually present; prominent, conspicuous; an appearance from which inferences may be drawn; an indication, mark, sign, token, trace. In his Manhattan Transcripts, 1981, Bernard Tschumi said that architecture ‘cannot be disassociated from the events that happen in it’1. For Tschumi architecture is less about built form and more about interaction – as both material witness and collaborator in the ‘event-world’ that unfolds through and around it. This paper is concerned with methods of capturing this ‘event-world’ where the physical environment – and in particular the interior - operates as a witness to the passing of time, and the transient interactions that take place within in it. Why are some interiors hidden from view or invisible to a public gaze? And what methods of detection might we employ to capture and record the evidence which pertains to these ephemeral moments, preserving them as either material fragments or immaterial data? Sometimes interiors have been designed to be hidden, inaccessible or to be inhabited by very specific users groups. Others are invisible because they are empty - no longer in active use - their intended purpose altered or changed through inhabitation and abandonment. With such interiors there is often no agenda for future possible adaptation; this is the case with the BBC Wing, Alexandra Palace in North London, the site of the first television broadcast in 1936 - currently unoccupied, its destiny uncertain. And Glasgow School of Art - recently devastated by fire, perhaps irretrievably damaging its structure and fabric. Adopting an investigative approach to detecting and narrating the invisible interior, this paper will explore strategies that expose the evidence that is left behind, and assess how new technologies might provide insight into their hidden narratives – atmosphere, emotion, time and memory

Draft one, process

foreword of the Issue 1 of the DRAFT Magazin