I have been thinking about this for years;
“Are the buildings alive?”
The feeling I have for the building is just a place to live and trade and do business
The building breathes, is alive, and lives like us
The spirit of a building with an identity can survive for years and centuries and adapt to changes in technology.
I love Buckingham Palace
Although I have never been there or even arrived in London
But I know this building well
Or even the beautiful and amazing Winsor Palace.
As an engineer, the value of the work of the mechanical and electrical installation engineers of these palaces excites me, like a classical music.
Suppose that when it was far away, when thinking about electricity was magical, these buildings were alive and could have their own cooling, heating, and sewage systems, and light was an effective element.
Now, after several centuries
The Queen of Britain is living with all her staff and bodyguards, and with this level of sophistication in providing energy and data infrastructure and heating and cooling systems, while being comfortable and luxurious.
It is a music, a symphony of playing a piece of strategic order in the installation system of buildings whose musicians play carefully.
Buildings that are the heritage of a nation and human beings whose value is not less than the building itself live in it and it should be known that it is a living building when the human spirit and life are current.
So we need to know that the age of a building has nothing to do with the type of facility and its maintenance
If we want to have a living building
We must reach a symphonic balance between water and electricity and man and wood and brick
And the master musicians who, under the leadership of a skilled conductor, keep this spirit alive
Yes, the buildings are alive.