I-HEALTH CENTRE

This adaptive reuse project contributes to the current literature by indicating the positive correlation between the themes of obsolescence, the technologies speed and value in the case study of telephone exchange building in northern Manchester. We examined the speed of technological change surround the telephone exchange building. The results reported that the health care has a positive correlation with both obsolescence and technological values. In addition, the relationship between the context and the community from macro to micro scale was also revealed to be important for the themes of obsolescence. Apart from the main causal relationship, the digital devices had a partial mediation effect on the obsolescence and showed a full mediation effect on the technological values. The speed of technological change has long been considered by urbanists and theorists alike and is one field where theory and practice are closely connected. 

​The scheme of this project is to the connectivity across the city, from town wide to a personal scale. Therefore the building will not become obsolete because it begins to incorporate a network of connectivity across the users with digital technology and provide facilities by analysis throughout their journeys.