Editing Interior architecture (section)

===Adaptive reuse===
[[File:Battersea Power Station - geograph.org.uk - 829933.jpg|thumb|upright|text-bottom|left|Real Estate Opportunities were granted to redevelop the Battersea Power Station of England in November 2010]]
[[File:Battersea Power Station in London (2006).jpg|thumb|text-bottom|upright|left|The Battersea Power Station of England has become an iconic structure through adaptive reuse and has been featured in many forms of culture during its more-than-seventy-year-long history.<ref name="archi-ninja.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.archi-ninja.com/excellent-examples-of-adaptive-reuse/|title=7 Excellent Examples of Adaptive Reuse – Archi-Ninja|work=archi-ninja.com}}</ref>]]
[[Image:Gasometer-hyblerpark-2001.jpg|thumb|text-bottom|One of the most successful residential reuse projects was Gasometer City, in Vienna Austria. Four immense disused gasometers were successfully revamped in the late ‘90s and have since become famous in the world of adaptive reuse.]]
[[Image:Gasometer-a-by viennaphoto at.jpg|thumb|upright|text-bottom|This unique redevelopment has since become a sought after place to live with a close-knit inner community, and is looked upon as a very successful example of adaptive reuse.<ref name="archi-ninja.com"/>]]
[[Image:World Food Prize Hall of Laureates remodeling.JPG|thumb|text-bottom|The World Food Prize Hall of Laureates, formerly the Des Moines Public Library on the western bank of the Des Moines River in downtown Des Moines, Iowa.]]

Although the original spatial hierarchy of a building is always established by its first architect, subsequent iterations of the interior may not be, and for obvious reasons, older structures are often modified by designers of a different generation according to society’s changing needs as our cities evolve. This process often re-semanticizes the building as a consequence, and is predicated on the notion that buildings can never really be complete and unalterable.

An altered building may look the same on the exterior, but its interior may be completely different spatially. The interior architect must therefore be sensitive not only to the place of the building in its physical and socio-political context, but to the temporal requirements of changing owners and users. In this sense, if the building has “good bones” the original architectural idea is therefore the first iteration of an internal spatial hierarchy for that structure, after which others are bound to follow

Cities are now dense with such buildings, perhaps originally built as banks that are now restaurants, perhaps industrial mills 
that are now [[loft apartments]], or even [[railway stations]] that have become [[art galleries]]. In each case the collective memory of the [[shape]] and character of the city is generally held to be more desirable than the possibility of a new building on the same site, although clearly economic forces apply. It is also possible to speculate that there might well be further new interiors for these structures in future years, but for each alteration the technical and technological expertise of the era will determine the extent to which the building is modified in its [[building life cycle]].

Certain structure's interiors remain unaltered over time due to [[historic preservation]], unchanged use, or financial limitations. Nevertheless, most buildings have only three possible long-range internal futures: First, designated significantly important to maintain visually unchanged, only accommodating unseen modern utilities, access, and structural stabilization, and restoration needs.  Second, demolished to make way for a new building on the same site, or abandoned, becoming ruins.  Finally, redesigned and altered to accommodate new uses.

There are many different degrees of alteration – a minor one to enable the building to conform to new legal codes is likely to prolong the first (or indeed later) iteration of interior space, but a major alteration, such as the retention of only the [[facade]], is to all intents and purposes a new building. All possibilities within and between the two extremes are the domain of the interior architect.

If the practice of architecture is concerned with the art and science of new building, then the practice of Interior architecture is concerned with the alteration of existing buildings for new uses.<ref name="intar.risd"/>