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Industrial Heritage

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Industrial heritage refers to former manufacturing sites, such as factories, steel mills, and processing plants, that remain after production has ceased. Designers working with these structures decide what to retain, what to remove, and how the building's industrial past should be legible in its new function. The field draws on conservation practice as well as contemporary architecture.

Members here explore conversions of former factories into museums, hospitality and retail precincts, and civic infrastructure, as well as smaller interventions such as urban furniture and lighthouse-like landmarks on post-industrial land. Several projects treat the transformation of a site as a question of community and landscape, not only of building fabric.

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1x1 Industrial Urban Furniture

1X1 is a modular urban furniture system designed to be adaptable and responsive to the situation. The birthplace of the system is Refshaleoen island in Copenhagen, which is proud of its industrial heritage and mixed-use facilities. The modular system is based on a 3D grid of 1x1 meter with vertical pipe structure working as a frame for the modules.

fahim

REJUVENATE JUTE CULTURE,A MUSEUM FOR GOLDEN FIBER

"The purpose of this project is to point out the possibility and importance to revitalize Adamjee jute mill as a heritage site by conserving the existing structures and space as a heritage site and at the same time to inform people about jute’s history, its contribution and inspires farmers, investors to the jute production."

Анастасия

TRANSFORMATION OF INDUSTRIAL TERRITORIES

The project was developed as part of the Bachelor's Graduate Thesis. The main idea was to create multifunctional neighborhoods based on historicity, identifiability and connectivity. The project also takes into account various types of buildings, courtyards and landscaping, which improves the quality of the environment due to its diversity.

Filip

AQUALUTION CENTER /Water purification center/

Project is collection of ecology and tourism history. It should pay homage to the technological achievements and history of the site, repay the debt to nature that has been depleted at the site, and be a place where visitors will come and perceive both the historical significance and the driving and scientific part with its visitor character.

Aylin and Gizem

Stochas(p)tic

Stochas(p)tic brings a new definition to the museum. The museum is considered not only as an exhibition space but also as a production center where people gather. It is a seek of the spatial potentials of the coincidental and chaotic situations that the city of Barcelona carries which people tend towards.

Olga

Unflatten

The idea for this experimental school emerged from one of the main Bauhaus principles, a genuine care & concern about human well- being. Todays' human need to adjust, socially and physically, to an increasing pace of everyday life. People are mostly functioning automatically throughout the daily tasks, where the loss of sight, importance of soft skills.

Dunja

Coaliving: A new post-mining agricultural typology

The project aims to set an affordable agricultural model, both in its materialization, and its programmatic outline. Rather than being based on farming, it interrogates how the processing of raw produce on a small scale can be financially self-sustaining, as poverty is ever-increasing with small farming communities.

Katarzyna

Postindustrial Lighthouse

Inspired by movement of air and water, as well as industrial character of oil rigs, Postindustrial Lighthouse has emerged. Prefabricated, modular boxes, by multiplication and protrusion, create engaging space that encourages visitors to explore the building and sink into a world of contemporary art.

Adriana

La Macchina Adriatica

La Macchina Adriatica is a habitable machine created for scientists to visit and stay for short periods of time while completing their investigations related to the Adriatic Sea.

Faiq

Protest for Baldia factory Karachi (Remembrance)

This is a case study of ‘the most terrifying event’ of Baldia Town Factory Karachi-Pakistan, an unfortunate garments facility and exporters that suffered from devastating fire accident on 9/11 of 2012.