Imagine Arch Magazine Story: Adaptive Building Reuse

IE Business School and IE School of Architecture & Design

Project idea

"Adaptive heritage reuse is becoming more and more common as a way to care for heritage assets, and a sustainable way of recycling their material aspects, whilst also engaging with their immaterial, narrative, and emotive qualities." - OpenHeritage Policy Brief #01, Copyright notice: © ICLEI Europe, December 2020, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY-ND 4.0). Open Heritage recommends to be creative when it comes to the many different and potentially relevant programmes of more supportive policy environments: Adaptive heritage reuse combines many facets and fields and operates within a variety of funding and policy programmes (e.g. energy, social, growth, recycling). That is why, this project of a demonstration house for a temporary residence in the fabric of the historic quarter, a showroom that exposes energy-saving technologies uses a constructor Lego.

Project description

"Adaptive heritage reuse...is widely used as a tool for urban regeneration, solving vacancy, restricting urban sprawl, and creating more direct links between heritage and communities; ... is emerging in other policy domains:
e.g. energy-saving, crisis recovery, economic development, tourism, participation, culture and youth policies and (funding) programmes." - OpenHeritage Policy Brief #01, Copyright notice: © ICLEI Europe, December 2020, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY-ND 4.0).

Technical information

The three-dimensional 3D Lego constructor layout demonstrates one-story residential building with a decorative textured embossed facade wall with a greening pergola porch, a glass transformable courtyard facade, an exploited roof, as well as personal/private installations of roof mini/micro wind turbines. The basement of a small building can create new visual connections with a garden and external. This is a transformation project typical for the Internet architectural publications like Dezeen or ArchDaily: "the 18th-century building in the heart of the town into a residence for a young couple who wanted an architecturally interesting home."