Revitalising Through Interaction: Using community values to turn vacant heritage in a place for intergenerational interactions

This project focusses on the relationship between nature in cities and the values conveyed by local communities in Faro, Portugal. With economic and health crises leading to increased stress and depression, society has begun paying more attention to mental and physical health, and the role of nature in cities has become increasingly important....

Values and attachment: Social and ecological spaces in value-based redesign of former milling factory, Estação, Faro

This graduation project is the heritage design of an abandoned factory in the Estação neighborhood, Faro, Portugal. The aim of MSc3 Graduation Studio: Revitalising Heritage is to develop and test values-based models for redesigning built heritage. There are three main phases: cultural significance survey, values-based redesign, and heritage...

Connect the Community Again: Participation as a tool for the redesign of vacant heritage. The case of Politiebureau Groningen Centrum

This project explores sustainable redevelopment strategies for vacant heritage. It explores the opportunities for stakeholder participation in heritage activities, the importance of which is stressed by, i.e., UNESCO, the Faro Convention, and the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands. The project experiments an innovative systematic...

Industrial preservation in post socialist countries - Heritage at risk in Romania

The goal of this research is to delve into and explore the restoration and re-use of the Romanian architectural industrial heritage in the context of denial, seeking possibilities of changing the negative social perception and trying to uncover the appropriation and recognition of these artefacts. The acknowledgement of the heritage at risk and...

Kabelfabriek 2.0: Working and living cabled in the factory

The research booklet presents the topic chosen for the graduation year of the masters of Architecture & Heritage at the Technical University of Delft. The first two quarters of the graduation year were set up as a research phase, which was used as the starting point for the design phase of the second half of the year. “Heritage 4all: Univer...

Enriching The "Village"

Everywhere in our country there are buildings and neighborhoods that keep history up to date and touch people. They tell stories about where we come from, who we are and how we develop. In the face of major changes in our living environment, heritage offers recognition and gives us something to hold onto, and identity. In addition, monuments and...

Hembrug, a culinary centre

The former military production terrain Hembrug situated in Zaandam is in decline since its closure in 2003. The terrain with over more than 100 buildings, of which 50 monuments, is in need of a new function. The assignment of the graduation project is to focus on a part of the terrain and to revitalise it with a new function. With the increasing...

A new purpose for Hembrug: Exposing Campus South

This graduation project has been executed in the studio of Heritage & Architecture at the TU Delft. The context of the project is that of the Hembrug terrain, a former military production site in between the cities of Amsterdam and Zaandam. The overhauling title of the graduation project is ‘Revitalizing Heritage’, aiming at giving the...

The continuation of historical value is enduring: Spirit of culture value is the regenerative power of heritage architecture

In this thesis, it describes that spirit is the regenerative power in heritage design, and explained how it was inherited from past and still remain alive nowadays. A certain kind of method will be approached to help with the research on this topic. Since heritage design is the re-design based on the existing building, historical research places...

Campus North, A site for the mind: Revitalising the Hembrug terrain

The Hembrug terrain is the former location of the Artillerie inrichtingen of the Netherlands which was the heart of the Stelling van Amsterdam. It is located at the intersection of the North sea canal and Zijkanaal G between the cities of Zaandam and Amsterdam. The former military terrain consists of many buildings of varying typologies and...

Eterna: Wellspring for the future in the past

What will the future of the shared heritage city center of Bandung, Indonesia be? When researching the current city center, it became clear that the historical structures of the city cannot cope with the growth of the city. In the past there was space for water, green and heritage, however traffic and people are taking over now. This results in...

Forgotten Heritage: Transforming the Klein Vaticaan into Dementia Care

This thesis focuses on the Klein Vaticaan area of Zutphen. The Klein Vaticaan was part of the Roman Catholic community within Zutphen, and consisted of an ensemble of buildings located in the neighborhood of the Nieuwstad. The Klein Vaticaan grew significantly throughout the years; at its peak it was roughly the whole eastern part of the...

The coexistence of multiplicities

The Manutenção Militar Complex (MMC) is situated along the river just outside of the city center of Lisbon. Within the industrial complex they produced food, uniforms and other goods for the Portuguese Army. Whilst the Portuguese Army reached 200,000 men in the 1960s, it is now reduced to 20,000 active soldiers. This meant that the factories of...

Mo [nu] ment

In less densely populated areas and cities (like Maastricht) of the Netherlands vacancy is a social issue. Vacancy is caused by a decrease of demand for <br/> shrinkage), creating an excessive offer of, real estate. This ´spatial shrinkage´ is related to the demographic and economic shrinkage that is characteristic of our times; a ´new reality´....