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Abstract
Nowadays, rapidly changing lifestyles in their cultural, economic, and demographic aspects reflect on the built environment. The pace and complexity of human requirements create the need to adapt to various change forms. Adaptability contributes to achieving sustainability and lengthens the building’s lifespan by making it possible to accommodate the changing user needs with minimal disruption. Most buildings are designed and constructed to suit particular functional and spatial needs at a certain time, which may disregard future ones. When change is examined from the building design perspective, a better understanding of the design process can result in a better accommodation of such change for an unforeseeable future. However, the design for adaptability is still an emerging field, fueled by the lack of interest from clients and users alike; there are no clear instructions for implementing it in the early design stages. The main aim of this thesis is to investigate whether long-term adaptability can be achieved in new buildings early in the pre-design phase. Various researchers have studied economic, functional, and environmental sustainability aspects and agreed on the importance of certain design aspects that enhance the adaptation process throughout the building’s lifespan. characteristics -such as but not limited to- modularity, separate building layers, and configurable details are best implemented in the preliminary stages as part of the architectural program. These characteristics are believed to facilitate future reconfiguration in response to the changing user needs. Through engaging users in the programming stage, more insight and better comprehension of the prominent adaptability obstacles will be gained. Through developing a user-aided design tool, this study explores how setting the correct objectives can impact the design process and outcome. This is discussed through an analytical review of three buildings that have successfully proven resilient against time. Tour Bois le Pretre, IGUS Factory and the Administration Building in the Faculty of Engineering in Alexandria University were all examined and assessed according to the developed tool. The outcome of this application leads to setting a focused roadmap to be instigated at the programming phase to fulfil the initial aim of optimizing adaptability and overall environmental sustainability.