Transformability of conventional and dynamic load bearing building nodes

Due to inadequate design many building materials and components are lost whenever a building no longer meets contemporary needs. Those adaptations are labour intensive because disassembly is difficult and not planned. However, by implementing the time dimension in design, a building could be re-build dynamically and could respond to changing requirements of society and individuals, such as changing family composition, changing patterns of life and changing work environment.
The last few decades design strategies and approaches were developed to facilitate change and the reuse of building parts; nevertheless dynamic building is still restricted to a small scale and specific functions, such as temporary buildings. A frequently cited reason of this restriction is the lack of constructional knowledge. Therefore, in the context of this paper it is examined whether there are actually gaps to build in a dynamic way by exploring which load bearing building nodes, based on different building methods (e.g. masonry construction and timber construction), do have a transformable variant and which do not.
Firstly, a summary is given of the mean characteristics which facilitate disassembly and the technical transformability of a structure. Secondly, conventional load bearing structures and their dynamic variants are being verified against those characteristics in order to evaluate the transformability of the load bearing structures.