Adaptive Reuse Documentation

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So then you start saying, "Well, okay, instead of "just going with that exposed brick, now we're gonna go "with the adaptive reuse, but we're gonna alter it. "We're gonna add you know, slivers of insulation and "we're gonna add new finishes and we're gonna add maybe a "whole addition onto the back or maybe we're gonna cut "spaces open and have double height spaces now." All of those different ideas could make it really exciting and that's great, but you have to start thinking about it, if you're an old building, what happens when you start changing the exterior wall? So now instead of that solid brick wall as the example we were just using, suddenly we now have maybe insulation on the inside within some drywall and that insulation, maybe it's acting like a vapor barrier so the moisture that was sort of feeding and breathing through that wall is now getting stuck in the wall and potentially causing mold issues, potentially causing damage, possibly condensation buildup.

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