Re-designerly Ways of Knowing* towards a Deeper Understanding of Redesign

This paper describes a study of the design process of architects dealing with building reuse. Even if we can intuitively recognize that the redesign of an existing building is different from the design of a new one, it is not easy to point to the distinguishing aspects of redesign and to the way architects cope with them. In order to shed more light on redesign, the paper starts by describing the general framework of the research, after which the protocol of a redesign session is analysed in two different ways. First a qualitative method is used to discuss the contents of the design session. Subsequently, a quantitative method is used to perform a more detailed analysis. The conclusions of both analyses are discussed at the end of the paper.