Flexibility and sustainability factor in unorganized and organized types of urban environment

Abstract

The paper analyzes the flexibility factor of architectural objects to adapt to the ongoing natural changes: the transformation of property, social conditions, kinship, cultural and functional programs. Two diametrically opposed types of buildings act as an object of analysis and potential transformation based on the application of the principle of flexibility. The first type refers to the informal urban formations, developed in the process of extensive growth of the urban peripheral areas, the second to the extra organized construction: high-rise residential construction, defines the conditions for sustainable development of building, examines examples of experiments, hypothesizes the creation of an effective model of flexible architectural and planning approach to the two types of urban environment.