Adaptive Reuse of Buildings Research Papers

A space is perceived by experiences and usage. The purpose of the study is conveying the memory effects in an adaptive reuse building in order to discuss interior space and memory. Protecting the essence of the used materials or... more

Chapter 3 presents empirically informed analyses of a number of new public space projects initiated first as counter-projects and counter-spaces by a variety of community and historic preservation society interests. It demonstrates... more

The Roskilde Music Festival held in the Danish city of Roskilde since 1971 has grown into one of the world’s major music and art festivals over the past 45 years, attracting more than 160,000 visitors. In 2011 the organisers of this... more

The Roskilde Music Festival held in the Danish city of Roskilde since 1971 has grown into one of the world’s major music and art festivals over the past 45 years, attracting more than 160,000 visitors. In 2011 the organisers of this nonprofit-making event announced a competition for an architectural project to be situated close to the festival ground that would contribute to the development of music and culture. The competition was for the conversion of the former UNICON Concrete Works, which was already being used informally by musicians and artists, into the Rockmagneten-Denmark Rock Music Museum and Roskilde Festival Folk School. Both in terms of its social-public objective and function conversion, the competition attracted world wide interest. The MVRDV and COBE architectural firms won the competition and their design project is now under construction. This article takes a critical look at the buildings involved, their conversion and new use focusing on the arts. The architectural design project can be viewed as a product of the Roskilde Festival’s contribution to art, music and humanism; and displays a different approach open to debate on the subjects of function/public discourse, and conservation/conversion to new uses. The democratic character of the festival, which is a non-profit-making event, was one of the foremost starting points for the project competition, since the revenues are spent on activities relating to music, art, education and culture, as indicated by the views of participants. Although the choice of site and the public discourse and functional aims (education and culture) of MVRDV and COBE’s design comply fully with the festival’s objectives, from another point of view it can be seen as an architectural reflection of culture, art and music as transformed into a major tool of capitalism.The design preserves the existing buildings, but with the addition of new buildings creates a very different whole. The use of materials and thematic approaches in the museum focus not so much on art as on its commercialisation.

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- by Emil Shrestha
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  Architecture, Urban Planning, Sustainable Building Design, Urbanism

audi Arabia is one of the rapidly developing countries in the Middle East. This tremendous urban development coincides with the steady increase of Saudi population, 80% of which live in urban areas. The expected covariant expansion in... more

audi Arabia is one of the rapidly developing countries in the Middle East. This tremendous urban development coincides with the steady increase of Saudi population, 80% of which live in urban areas. The expected covariant expansion in building and construction sector in Saudi Arabia will in turn intensify the urban problems of city sprawl, rise of squatter settlements, abandonment of buildings, and shortage of housing. The risk of cities' social, economic and environmental structures breakdown due to the excessive urban growth is threatening; however, the environmental risks of the uncontrolled urban expansion such as congestion, overconsumption of natural resources and pollution are the most harmful. Since the increase of urban development in major cities is inevitable, it should be therefore managed sustainably. The concept of adaptive reuse of existing buildings, which is gaining more recognition in the West, can offer sustainable solutions to some of these urban crises, with minimum energy waste and less consumption of materials and resources. That is, it seeks what is already there and makes the best use of it.
This research investigates the current situation of adaptive reuse of buildings and its applications in Saudi Arabia, in order to arrive at a better discernment of how to improve the process of adaptation in the Saudi built environment. An inquiry of the concept and some of its emerging approaches in the developed countries was carried out at the beginning of the study to compare general perception and applications.
Questionnaires and interviews were used in this research to uncover the different viewpoints of authorities, entrepreneurs, practitioners, academics and the general public in Saudi Arabia about the concept. In addition, a range of random case studies were analyzed.
The research revealed that adaptive reuse of buildings in Saudi Arabia is challenged by the arbitrary conditions of it implementation and is merely judged by its economic merits. Two driving forces for adopting the concept in Saudi Arabia were indicated: Necessity and identity crisis. The cultural renaissance represented by the calls to preserve our heritage identity at present, has paved the ground for conservation and restoration of historical buildings to emerge, endorsed by Government support and
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recognition. Yet, the concept of adaptive reuse of buildings in Saudi Arabia is not perceived as a sustainable strategy. Therefore, the research points out, the need for government intervention in order to lay the ground rules for managing the process of adaptive reuse of buildings as part of the adopted program for sustainable development. In spite of the professionals' agreement on the scarcity of suitable buildings for rehabilitation, as the main obstacle to adaptive reuse of buildings in Saudi Arabia, the general situation of the concept and its applications will not be changed in the absence of governmental control and recognition.

Buildings Re-imagined: Dialogues Between Old and New builds on an increasing body of work that engages with the still emerging practice of what is generally known as building transformation or adaptive reuse. It is an exploration of... more

Un Landmark per Laveno Mombello: Progetti per l’ex Società Ceramica Italiana ***** Progetti del Laboratorio di Progettazione dell’Architettura degli Interni CdL in Progettazione dell’Architettura | Scuola AUIC | Politecnico di Milano |... more

Un Landmark per Laveno Mombello: Progetti per l’ex Società Ceramica Italiana
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Progetti del Laboratorio di Progettazione dell’Architettura degli Interni
CdL in Progettazione dell’Architettura | Scuola AUIC | Politecnico di Milano | proff Imma Forino e Francesca Rapisarda (Interior Reuse Lab) | archtti Marcella Camponogara Biagio Cofini Jacopo Leveratto Eleonora Riccioni
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Mostra a cura di Marcella Camponogara e Jacopo Leveratto
Allestimento di Francesca Rapisarda
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Progettata dall’architetto Piero Portaluppi fra il 1924 e il 1926, la Società Ceramica Italiana a Laveno Mombello rappresenta un notevole esempio di architettura industriale italiana, simbolo di una collettività produttiva quanto sensibile all’estetica del manufatto ceramico. Non più in uso da tempo, il complesso rappresentato dalla palazzina uffici e gli edifici di ingresso e servizio si presenta in stato di forte degrado. Necessita non solo di riqualificazione edilizia e di opere di restauro, ma di un nuovo destino: attende di essere riconvertito in un polo culturalmente attrattivo e proficuo per la città e il suo territorio. Tre le ipotesi progettuali proposte: Creative Hub (per startup e coworking per giovani professionisti e fab lab per piccole produzioni ceramiche), Cultural Basin (aperto a eventi culturali, congressuali ed espositivi) e Kid Learning Center (destinato al tempo libero e ad attività formative dei bambini nel doposcuola). A partire da questi spunti e da quelli offerti dalla Municipalità – che da tempo prospetta un Museo del Sanitario che fu prodotto in loco –, quaranta giovani progettisti hanno sviluppato un programma funzionale per l’insieme portaluppiano, riprogettato gli interni degli edifici, gli arredi, i sistemi allestitivi, i servizi al pubblico e, al contempo, riqualificato l’area esterna nell’ottica di valorizzare un importante simbolo della città. Nel rispetto e nella valorizzazione delle strutture e delle decorazioni originari sono emersi nuovi habitat contemporanei, affinché lo straordinario progetto di Piero Portaluppi non sia abbandonato a una sorte fatale, ma ritorni a essere un espressivo landmark per Laveno Mombello.
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Progetti di: Miriam Aisa | Giorgio Andreoni | Alessia Arcolaci | Susanna Berra | Isacco Francesco Boffi | Margherita Bolgiani | Mattia Bosisio | Martina Brasca | Daniela Bucchi | Elena Busoni | Alice Cajelli | Silvia Caldi | Giulia Camardo | Fiamma Shihari Costa Dehiwalage | Claudia Cuccaro | Silvia Dadda | Simone Dalben | Camilla Maria De Capitani | Stefano Di Zazzo | Alessandra Claudia Ferrari | Sara Fuga | Lucia Giordano | Fabrizio Salvatore Greco | Marco Lenzi | Mattia Manelli | Martina Chiara Nardini | Chiara Ponti | Mihaela Pricopi | Lisa Regazzoni | Martina Riso | Greta Romani | Nicolò Sciolti | Lisa Secreti | Alessio Socci | Diego Suardi | Celeste Tellarini | Greta Varani | Paola Vescovi | Vittoria Zammitti | Erica Zoccarato
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Inaugurazione: Sabato 17 giugno 2017, MIDeC Museo Internazionale Design Ceramico _ Ore 17:30 _ via Lungolago Perabò 5, Cerro di Laveno Mombello
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Mostra: 18 giugno | 2 luglio 2017
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Si ringraziano: Ercole Ielmini, Sindaco di Laveno Mombello | Unipol Sai | prof Roberto Dulio, Politecnico di Milano | dott Ferruccio Luppi, Fondazione Piero Portaluppi | dottssa Maria Grazia Spirito, MIDeC | arch Silvia Tommaselli, Unipol Sai SpA | dott Gioele Giudici
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Evento promosso da: Comune di Laveno Mombello _ DASTU Dipartimento di Architettura e Studi Urbani, Politecnico di Milano _ Interior Reuse Lab _ MIDeC Museo Internazionale Design Ceramico, Cerro di Laveno Mombello _ Scuola di Architettura Urbanistica Ingegneria delle Costruzioni, Politecnico di Milano

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One of most relevant playground of the debate concerning the sustainable refurbishment of cultural heritage is focused on its valorisation. Neither a conservative approach, unavailable for every kind of heritage re-use, neither the... more

This contribution presents a reflection on the work carried out by an informal research group and discusses a three-year teaching experience on the elaboration of an urban strategy for transient living: C.I.R.C.O., Casa Irrinunciabile per... more

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  Hospitality Management, Urban Planning, Urban Studies, Roma

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_ INTERIOR REUSE Lab is a Research Group at DAStU Department, Politecnico di Milano. _ Since 2006 Interior Reuse Lab has been working on architectural interiors and their adaptive reuse through Research by Design, Teaching and... more

_ INTERIOR REUSE Lab is a Research Group at DAStU Department, Politecnico di Milano.

_ Since 2006 Interior Reuse Lab has been working on architectural interiors and their adaptive reuse through Research by Design, Teaching and Writings.
_ Research Field: A phenomenological interpretation of the redesign of existing architecture should start from the recognition that the interior space has to be re-considered, according to Bruno Zevi’s idea of architecture, as “art of spatial hollows”. The focus on the interior part of buildings is particularly significant, looking at the specific design features characterising the intervention on the built environment in a complex cultural and morphological context such as the European one. In a historical-economic reality that certainly lacks in new contributions, designers still draw on the relationship with the past for new conditions. European culture, and especially Italian culture, is in fact the result of a long-time period stratification which has seen a diffuse integration of old and new buildings, new developments in otherwise consolidated urban fabrics, but which has also been marked by breaks, additions, and reconstructions within the same structure, dictated by the necessary changes made at different historical times. The final result is a meta historical continuum that, looked at in a future perspective, often ends up merging differences and making the discourse between the old and the new dialogic, as if it were the effect of a single understanding, time, and no longer the sum of different contributions. Furthermore the dialogue with the existing structure is increasingly complex when it takes place in an intervention within the construction. If on the one hand, in fact, the regulations actually set a limit to the building “shell” design, on the other hand, they allow the contemporary intervention a wider margin in its “hollow”. Through critical interpretations borrowed from studies about the visual form of architectural space (Rudolph Arnheim), that unveil in design the use of previous traces, this research looks for the most significant trends of contemporary design in existing architecture.
_ Since 2006 took part in the Interior Reuse Lab with lessons, suggestions, ideas and buildings: Michela Bassanelli – Gisella Bassanini – Federico Bazzi (Ex Grafiche Bazzi) – Bertrando Bonfantini – Roberto Borghi – Sara Calvetti – Barbara Camocini – Claudio Camponogara – Marcella Camponogara — Jacqueline Ceresoli – Alessandra Chalmers – Claudio Chesi – Valentina Chiesi – Alessandro Colombo – Maddalena D’Alfonso – Andrea Di Giovanni — Roberto Dulio – Marcello Felicori – Giole Giudici – Nicola Gisonda (Officine del Volo) – Ercole Ielmini (Comune di Laveno Mombello) – Francesca Lanz – Orietta Lanzarini – Tullio Leggeri (ALT) – Jacopo Leveratto — Federico Lorenzini (Comune di Paullo) – Paolo Magis – Yuri Mastromattei – Paolo Mazzoleni – Gianni Ottolini – Irene Pasina – Mariano Pichler – Lia Rumma (Galleria Lia Rumma) – Michele Porcu – Elena Quarestani (Assab One) – Isabella Sassi – Vaclav Sedy – Silvia Tommaselli (UnipolSai) – Maurizio Vitta – Maurizio Vogliazzo – Paolo Zaniboni (BlitzBovisa). Thanks to everyone for their contribution

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