Flexibility Approach in Sustainable Architecture

In developing and changing societies, it has become inevitable to provide flexibility in sustainable architecture due to different needs. Thanks to the sustainable flexible designs, the emerging requirements are met. Flexible design in sustainable architecture; responding to the demands and needs of users, it gains importance in terms of sustainability in the life cycle process, in terms of their positive effects on the environment with the natural resources they consume during the construction, use, maintenance, repair and recovery stages and the waste they generate. In this study, the concept of flexibility and flexible architectural approaches were theoretically dealt with in a wide range and flexibility criteria were set up in sustainable architecture. Strategies for providing flexibility in sustainable architecture were identified and “flexibility criteria” were explained through examples. In determining the flexibility criteria, the approaches of many leading architects who are well-known in the historical process have been evaluated by evaluating the approaches to flexibility and flexibility criteria in sustainable architecture; four criteria, namely "spatial flexibility", "functional flexibility", "structural flexibility" and "aesthetic flexibility" were determined by evaluating them in terms of adaptiveness, movableness, interactivity and transformability perspectives.