Thisgraduation project that explores the boundaries of acceptable policy change through three redesign scenarios. Its objective is to create and evaluate values-based models for the transformation of built heritage. The MSc3 Graduation Studio: Revitalising Heritage comprises three key phases: a survey to assess cultural significance, a values-driven redesign process, and a heritage impact assessment. Initially, existing policies were examined, followed by a gamified survey comparing the perspectives of two distinct target groups: the community and experts. The design proposal presents three options, ranging from conservative to substantial alterations, for heritage housing. To assess the effectiveness of the methodology, a SWOT analysis was conducted to analyze the project's impact. Overall, this graduation project aims to provide insights into the potential for change in heritage redesign while considering the cultural significance and stakeholder perspectives.

Society conveys values to cities and their buildings, the key to sustainability, only in part recognized as heritage values, when protected by urban and/or heritage planning. There is a growing recognition of the importance of acknowledging the values conveyed by locals and tourists in heritage management and urban planning. However, the knowledge and tools available today remain predominantly expert-based. Their contribution to heritage listings and conservation plans is therefore limited. Moreover, some cities tend to unbalance locals and tourists’ needs, leading to overly touristic areas, gentrification and communities’ exodus. Although research on the values conveyed to cities and buildings is growing, there is seldom research comparing them. Hence, how do the attributes and values of Faro’s heritage conveyed by locals and tourists set the frame for transformation? This research aims to reveal the cultural significance (values and attributes) conveyed by locals and tourists, taking the neighborhood São Francisco (included in an Urban Rehabilitation Area) in Faro, Portugal, as case study. And will provide a masterplan as a visualisation of the results gathered by this research. The guidelines provided by the masterplan address the current challenges of the neighbourhood further than the actual policies in place. By using multiple methods to perform spatial analysis, which includes (1) photographing, mapping and categorization of the facades and their attributes in São Francisco, and, (2) social media analysis, where hundred Instagram posts were manually collected following strict guidelines, heritage attributes could be identified. (3) Public engagement was used in the site survey game in which pictures of the attributes would be shown to locals and tourists who would connect predefined words to them in order to collect the heritage values. By following these methods, this research aims at revealing patterns and relations between: a) attributes, in particular, buildings’ facades and their characteristics and b) values (distinguishing local and tourists). After the fieldwork, results showed clear concurrences and contradictions between both communities. Results revealed low values for contemporary apartment complexes and higher values for pre-existing typologies in both groups. Furthermore, attributes such as the street art, the materialisation of facades, and the authenticity of attributes developed into design guidelines for a masterplan in which these relations are portrayed. By understanding these relations, the Municipality of Faro can improve their awareness of who values what, and why, in order to support their strategies about how to accommodate new functions in historic buildings while respecting the limits of acceptable change of built heritage according to these stakeholders. Hence, the expected impact is to raise awareness about the cultural significance of both societal groups in order to better inform heritage management and urban sustainable planning. Keywords | cultural significance, urban rehabilitation, building attributes, tourism, São Francisco - Faro

The role of nature in historic cities has been a growing debate in creating healthier environments as society pays more attention to mental and physical health. The relationship between nature, city, and community is growing in understanding but is still limited in practice. Recent research evidence that the high cultural significance of green places, where people like to spend time, positively impacts their well-being. Moreover, the community's well-being was proven to be connected to the presence of nature because of the strong emotional attachment to the greenery in historic cities. This thesis focuses on the neighborhood Estação in Faro, Algarve, Portugal, which historically was an agricultural area but nowadays contains only a few green spaces and lacks connection with the Ria Formosa National Park (lagoon). Assumingly, these natural elements primarily convey, e.g., aesthetical and ecological values but may also bring a broader cultural significance to the community of Faro. Participatory methods, in particular gaming, are used to reveal the values of the community. Gaming is a participatory method that enables co-creation in representing, visualizing, and redesigning architecture and the urban landscape. Both sides can learn by engaging the local community. The method supports raising awareness about values and considering them in the redesign process.

This graduation project explores emotional attachment toward nature in the city of Faro, Portugal. A photographic walking tour had been used as a participatory method to identify values and attributes that are related to the community’s emotional attachment. The research resulted in a values-based redesign of two former warehouses at the waterfront of the Ria Formosa Natural Park. The redesign aims to attract the younger generation to the plot and acts as a catalyst for more urban development in this high-potential area and eventually reduces the large vacancy.

This research looks at Gele Scheikunde - a TU Delft chemistry department building constructed in 1945. The complex served for educational purposes until 2012 and then was sold by TU for redevelopment. The ambition of the city of Delft is to increase the housing stock, furthermore, the number of TU campus users has grown significantly in recent years. This brings up a dilemma between densification and quality of life. For these reasons, abandoned or non-used buildings like TU faculty building Gele Scheikunde is envisioned for housing purpose. According to the official regulations and the Commission for Environmental Impact Assessment (MER), there is great potential in this university area to develop an innovative sustainable neighbourhood. Thus, the question that arises is: How to redevelop the former campus buildings? The goal is to research on how to cope with abandoned campus buildings by including social and ecological values into the transformation and re-adaption design. The approach for the research was to involve stakeholders in the co-creation process. This co-creation process was facilitated through the Minecraft workshop. During the workshop, not only experts (e.g. architects, designers, planners) but also external parties (e.g. neighbours, users, ecologists), decided over the built environment. However, a co-creation approach is not limited to one method. There are various ways to involve stakeholders: interviews, surveys, questionnaires and workshops, with or without heritage games. For this research, a combination of the above was chosen: interviews, surveys and a gaming workshop with Minecraft. This approach provided information on what is valued in the case study, why it is valued, what should be kept and what can be demolished. Besides all stakeholders shared their opinion on what would be the best “new program”.

This paper describes the method followed in the intervention project following the analysis of façade attributes and value in the neighborhood of Sao Francisco in Faro, Portugal. It is composed of three main parts: Research results, Intervention bases and architectonic project. Following the work described on the research (Herck, van et al. 2022), the paper aims to describe the topic of Value based redesign for heritage in architecture. As described in the previous paper, the framework for the values is set by Tarrafa and Pereira Roders (2012). These values attached to façade attributes set the tone for the intervention along with principles coming from the masterplan for Barrio Sao Francisco and a systematic intervention. Following the value analysis, the current state of the building and the damage it currently presents was mapped and compared with the value plans. The results of the overlaying of information pointed out the challenges, opportunities, and dilemmas in the ensemble. The architectonic proposal feeds from the façade analysis and portrays a system of principles that convey with local regulations, materials and values. The method can be further developed and refined with the possibility of having a broader input from research.

Secularisation is leading to an increasing amount of obsolete churches in the Netherlands. There is a need for decision making on which churches to preserve and how to deal with the preserved churches. Adaptively reusing these buildings can safeguard them from demolition. Adaptively reusing churches is a matter of making concessions. Every stakeholder has its interest. These interests are interrelated, and it is almost impossible to meet every stakeholders’ goal to the maximum. Therefore, one should strive to find the optimal solution. Finding this optimal balance is the task of the decision maker. Theory shows that aligning the following four goals can help: physical, functional, financial and organisational goals. These are based on the CREM perspectives. This is tested by interviewing several decisionmakers and by comparing this qualitative data and the additional literature research with the theory. The aim is to strengthen the position of the decision maker with this new information and tools. Equally important as finding the optimal solution, is making supported decisions. The use of the DAS-frame guides this. Comparing the four steps derived from the literature with the steps decision makers take leads to the findings. This information is derived from interviews. A step-by-step plan for future decision makers helps making substantiated decisions, and a database and reference booklet, compiled in this thesis, help broadening the solution framework for adaptively reusing churches. This step-by-step plan is compiled based on the DAS-frame and the information for the interviews. Tips from finding the optimal solution merge into this step-by-step plan. The step-by-step plan, database and reference booklet form a toolbox to support private and public decision makers in fulfilling their task.

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. The neighborhood of Estação in Faro is an area that directly borders the Ria Formosa Natural Park, making it an ideal location to study the values that green areas in cities convey to local communities. To understand the relationship between nature and people, this research used participatory research methods. The aim was to reveal the interests and perspectives of different stakeholders regarding the cultural significance of places, by assessing the values held by different generations. Two theoretical frameworks were used to code the cultural significance of nature. Cultural significance is defined by two concepts: values and attributes. The values refer to why something is important, while attributes refer to the quality or characteristic that someone or something has. The varied categories of attributes are divided into tangible attributes (asset, area, and all) and intangible attributes (product, societal, process). The research aimed to gather information about all age groups with the most suitable participatory gaming methods. A card game was developed to understand the values of both children and elderly. The game is set around proposal cards that contain actions to take regarding the city of Faro, based on nature-based solutions (NBS) from the Urbinat catalogue. The proposals are completed with other actions that might want to be explored further in the design phase. Each proposal has been classified according to the values/attribute framework. The results of the research indicated that nature in cities is valued by local communities for a range of reasons. The highest results that emerged from the research where the economic, social and ecological values. The research also identified different attributes associated with these values, such as a sense of place, physical characteristics, cultural heritage, and ecological functions. Overall, this research has highlighted the importance of understanding the cultural significance of nature in cities for different generations. The research was used for a values-based redesign of a vacant industrial site. The project has four main goals: rehabilitation, cohabitation, intergenerational interaction, and community ownership. The first goal aims to protect the historic and cultural significance of the site by limiting interventions to minor impacts. The second goal focuses on the relation between people and nature, highlighting the potential for nature to increase well-being and create enjoyable spaces. The third goal focuses on the relationship between people of different ages, emphasizing the mutual benefits of intergenerational interactions. The fourth goal emphasizes the importance of community involvement in the creation and maintenance of the project. Proposed functions for the building include workshop spaces, gardens, bars/restaurants, workspaces, clubs, and exhibition spaces. The proposed design aligns with social, ecological, and economic values. Based on the research the design received positive responses from both age groups.

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 impact assessment. This project applied cultural mapping, decision-making participation, and impact assessment methods to fulfill the value-based redesign and improve residents' place attachment. The design proposal is making use of the outdoor space with nature to support people’s interaction and leisure activity without harming the calm atmosphere and the elderly’s sense of ownership.