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Adaptive Reuse: Projects, Journals & Ideas

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Adaptive reuse involves redesigning and repurposing buildings, infrastructure, and spaces for contemporary functions. This approach extends the life of existing structures while addressing practical challenges in housing, social services, and community resilience.

The community explores adaptive reuse across diverse contexts: converting commercial buildings into social facilities, retrofitting infrastructure for refugee settlements, transforming industrial spaces into vocational centers, and reimagining public structures to support vulnerable populations and foster community recovery.

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UNI Editorial49 works

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Arancha Alvear1 work

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Lekshmy Hirandas1 work

seba shukhur1 work

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haqi and farah

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Armadicar

To overcome the unpredictable disasters occurring on this planet, Armadicar – a mobile habitat inspired by Armadillo – provides an adaptive dwelling in a minimum space. With costumizable interior elements, openings and boundaries, Armadicar accommodates four-member family activities during days and nights, on land and water surface in sustainable way.

ali

Reborn plan for survival competitoin

by analyzing the existing historical buildings of the site, the existing sheds are considered as a good potential for this project. Accordingly, in order to revive the history of Baghshomal, the existing sheds of the site have been used.

seba and Lekshmy

SAIRA: Shared And Individual Response for Action

A natural disaster disrupts people's pursuit of happiness and forces them to restart their lives from scratch. What we need today is a resilience strategy that is not just focused on generating housing stock but looks to empower people to take positive action during any disaster in the future.

Muhammad

Resiliencity

this project demonstrate a new technique of incremental solution after a disaster or earthquake

ananya

ADAPTIVE SETTLEMENT FOR REFUGEES-A case of Srilankan Tamil

To design a long-term settlement with Srilankan attitude with an infiltration of outsiders without affecting the sense of security with future expansion reflecting the socioeconomic character and is also affordable, incremental and sustainable. The occupational center enhances self-employment for women to explore their skills and support their livelihood.

menka and 2 others

Communal Resilience

Communal Resilience symbolizes the combined ability of a community to use locally available materials to fight, withstand and recover from any threatening peril or calamity. It is a project to instill a feeling of alliance with an environment that is shared. So, when the calamity eventually hits, the decision of living together will be the preferred.

Paul Suendermann

Reclaiming Childhood

A modular and versatile installation designed to create educational and joyful spaces for children in refugee camps. Our concept focuses on giving control back to neglected children while creating a safe space in a chaotic and hostile environment.

Lorena

RE/CREATION

Recreations Recreated.

Anushka

The Other Side- Adaptive Reuse of Abandoned Prison

This project reimagines the abandoned Thane Central Jail as a vibrant civic precinct through adaptive reuse. By preserving its historic fabric and introducing cultural, recreational and community spaces, the project transforms a symbol of confinement into a place of memory, connection and everyday public life.

Asad

Re-Silo

In brief, our design acknowledges traditional agricultural storage systems by modifying them into more up-to-date purposes. Reutilizing them into livable space creates an experimental learning center that enriches the agricultural community and is accessible to all users.

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UNI Editorial

publishedResults3 weeks ago

Extended Shell: Retrofitting Kolkata's Balconies as Living Urban Thresholds

A modular retrofit system recovers the social and environmental intelligence of Kolkata's historic verandas for contemporary Park Street residents.

Building Design

Adaptive Reuse

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog4 months ago

Conversion of an Old Locksmith Shop by ALAS Alarcón Linde Architects

Adaptive reuse in Berlin transforms former locksmith shop into sustainable live-work spaces, blending history, craftsmanship, green design, and contemporary architecture.

Adaptive Reuse

Architecture

UNI Editorial

publishedReview1 week ago

Adaptive Reuse of the Old Bridge: Foldable Rail Cars Turn a Disused Crossing into a Seasonal Public Room

Mariya Boneva rolls foldable modules onto a disused steel truss bridge, turning a crossing built for movement into a seasonal platform for staying.

Adaptive Reuse

Cycling Bridge

UNI

publishedBlog5 months ago

Homeless Vocational Training Center: Modular Reuse as a Tool for Social Reintegration

An abandoned building in a fractured Taiwanese city becomes a rotatable, crane-assembled training hub that turns homeless residents into skilled workers.

Adaptive Reuse

Utilitarian Architecture