Preserving Historic Catholic Churches: The Case for Adaptive Reuse in Future Conservation

This thesis discusses the heritage approach of adaptive reuse as a way to preserve and protect abandoned churches in Limburg. For this, a discussion is had on the social and cultural dynamic and history of Limburg. This is a province in the Netherlands with a deep historical connection to the Catholic religion. This paper explores the province’s...

Effects of adaptive vernacular reuse on historic industrial districts in densifying Dutch cities: Adaptive vernacular reuse deployed as design strategy to redevelop dilapidated Dutch heritage sites

This research studies the effects of adaptive vernacular reuse on industrial heritage sites. Hereby the studied effects are focused on industrial sites in Dutch cities. Within the Netherlands a trend can be seen of cities trying to densify the urban environment. This trend is the consequence of a housing shortage and a low availability of...

Reimagining industrial heritage: facilitating tomorrow's manufacturing industry towards a circular city

For many years, the concept of adaptive reuse of buildings has been researched. A focus on heritage and specifically the implementation of circular economy frameworks is however relatively new. Adaptive reuse of heritage is often concerned a circular strategy for its material reuse. However, there are many more dimensions to circularity in...

Enabling the adaptive reuse of industrial heritage - A municipal perspective: Studying the involvement of the municipality in the adaptive reuse process of industrial heritage buildings

Introduction - Industrial heritage buildings possess unique characteristics and significant potential, yet often many remain vacant: presenting an untapped opportunity. Adaptive reuse of these buildings can have an extra-large impact, especially as catalysts for urban (re)development. However, the adaptive reuse process is complex, particularly...

Mediating Religious Elements: Collective memory of religious spaces to incentivise the transformation of decommissioned churches

This project explores the utilisation of the collective memory of vacant churches and the architectural elements within them as incentives for their transformation and reuse. The number of decommissioned churches in the Netherlands is increasing with rapid secularisation, and many churches remain empty. The purpose of this paper is to find a...

A walled garden in Brussels: Ambiguity as the foundation for coexistence in the European quarter in Brussels

"Brussels was never destroyed by the wars, but rather by its own people" these words of Victor Bourgouis show the destructive vision of social and cultural spaces in Brussels. The city's vision of urban development is based on top-down politics, fed by the desire to be modern. This affection leads to the non-identification and displacement of...

Architects’ Methodology in Adaptive Reuse of Heritage Buildings

Adaptive reuse (AR) of heritage buildings is common practice in The Netherlands and is becoming more and more common at the International level. While AR projects are generally considered positive actions towards preserving the qualities of heritage buildings, not all projects have similar (positive) impact. To propose a methodology for dealing...

Planning for the regeneration of listed buildings for vulnerable social groups using Zero-Energy and Circular Principles: The case of the refugee settlements of Alexandra’s Avenue in Athens, Greece

The present thesis discusses social, cultural, economic and environmental aspects of problems related to heritage building depreciation, homelessness and lack of affordable housing, with a focus on the more vulnerable social groups. It additionally argues the mitigation of the impact of the cities and the building sector on climate crisis. The...

Participatory approaches in the adaptive reuse of two Dutch private-led cultural heritage projects: role of the local communities

There is increasing debate concerning citizen participation in the reuse and transformation of heritage sites. However, the question of why and how participatory approaches are explored in private-led heritage adaptive reuse receives limited attention. The paper shows why the communities should play an essential role in the adaptive reuse of...

A sequel to Vroom & Dreesmann: from cathedral of consumption to temple of pop.

This project explores the impact of Vroom & Dreesmann (V&D) on the city and city life of Leiden over time. The strategy to re-vitalize this building is two-folded. On the one hand, the collective memory of and associations with V&D are used in order to revitalize the building. For over hundred years, V&D has been an important...

WE WILLEMSTAD -Urban resilience in the Caribbean through collaboration & the adaptability of real estate: The case of urban transformation in historical port city of Willemstad, Curaçao

<br/>The increase in economic, social, and environmental challenges leads to rethinking the long-term spatial vulnerabilities of small island developing states (SIDS). In addition, the lack of resources and low capacity available accentuates the necessity of considering urban resilience. By exploring the possible relationship between adaptive...

The Osservanza: an integrated adaptive reuse project

Historical campuses enabled post-Age of Enlightenment organizations’ operations and allowed them to adapt with times, supporting their processes of adaptive reuse transformation throughout the institutions’ recursive managerial cycles. However, the radical reforms which concerned these organizations since the second half of the 20th century,...

'KNIL' MAGAZIJNEN Community Center: Community based transformation towards a resilient future.

In the context of the H&amp;A Shared Heritage Lab, which I am part of, crucial built heritage issues are investigated in the city of Bandung, Indonesia. Bandung has many Indonesian-Dutch heritage sites and buildings as a result of the long period of colonization by the Dutch. They are part of both Dutch and Indonesian history and have become...

The Urban Foyer: a cultural connector

The Manutenção Militar Complex (MMC) was an industrial facility that produced food, uniforms and other goods for the Portuguese Army. The first bakery was accommodated in a former Convent – Convento das Grilas – by the end of the 19th Century. During the 20th Century, due to the needs during the First World War and the Portuguese Colonial War in...

Designing from Heritage: Strategies for Conservation and Conversion

This book – the third in the Rondeltappe series – reflects the philosophy and didactic approach of Heritage and Architecture (H&amp;A) section of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment (Delft University of Technology). H&amp;A has three chairs: Design, Cultural Value and Technology. They work in close cooperation to lay the...

Sustainable renewal of the everyday Modern

Listed or not, many Modern-era buildings deserve our appreciation for their architectural merit, whether it be for the social developments that these buildings represent or for the innovative technologies applied and used in their making. Early preservation projects of Modern ‘icons’ carried out in the 1980s–1990s provided valuable...