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Reclaimed Space: Projects, Journals & Ideas

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Reclaimed space explores how designers and architects breathe new life into abandoned, underutilized, or forgotten structures. Rather than demolition, this approach finds potential in what already exists, whether industrial buildings, natural landscapes, or discarded materials.

The community examines adaptive reuse projects that convert factories into galleries, warehouses into offices, and cabins into functional spaces. Work here also investigates how reclaimed materials and reimagined environments can support healing, community, and sustainable design practices.

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Exploring the Milky Way

The project aims to create an interactive open space that allows for free movement in the project , between the the volumes that make up the project . The concept is inspired from the space where the planets and stars are dynamically placed forming the milky way.

Mohamed

The Non-Memorial

This project aims to transcend traumatic memory imposed in the physical monumental space, by creating a space for social reconciliation through storytelling. Embracing the scars of war and subtly subverting these memories of war into beams of hope.

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.

Abhishek

Tranquillising Temperaments through Architecture

History has left us with many incidences & events that has lead us to what we are today.In great cities,the great buildings tell you things you don't know and remember things which you've forgotten.Mumbai being the capital of commerce had many mills which were the reason of survival of 9lac people.But shutdown of mills caused an uproar in the city's balance.

Hamid and Mohammad

Healing Trees

Healing Trees was conceived as a new connection between humans, Koalas and existing nature. A healing place filled with light and greenery, encourages a spirit of involvement, co-creation and collaboration.

Ahmad and 3 others

Un Nouveau Soleil

Un Nouveau Soleil is an approach to reclaim the abandoned railways in Paris through the approach of placemaking by encouraging citizens of Paris to reclaim the public space through empowering them to go and explore the unlimited possibilities of occupying the space in a way that benefit both of them and the communities surrounding these places.

christie

The Funnel

A new approach to challenge the hermetic and isolated penitentiary institution, catered to both users, the offenders and the general public. Its physical layout is designed to gather said groups together and give each other the chance to undergo transition via functional programs namely reflect, reform, reform, reintegrate and reborn.

Mahta and 3 others

OLD CREATURES

The project is walking on an edge where identity and sustainability meet each other. The mother of fossil fuels which have ruined the environment during years and now, it is Old Creatures. Nothing is new, everything is recycled, the old containers and the old barrels. The live facade made by sheets of the old containers.

Abeg

Revival of Last British Rotating Stage Theatre

This project portrays the last British revolving stage theatre of Asia, which is conserved by not only re-using the structure but also maintaining urban and natural balance. The fundamentals and proportions of this project will serve the cultural and emotional aspects of the people living in that area, with the help of Dovey’s “Place Attachment Theory.”

matthew

Waste to Warmth

Grain stores as the catalyst for Osage City’s energy efficient future, a collaboration with ECKAN’s community action program.

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UNI Editorial

publishedBlog1 week ago

Christopher Sitzler Reworks a Fragmented 1990s Berlin Attic into One Continuous Room Wired for Sound

A 76 m² attic apartment in Berlin trades its chopped-up 1990s plan for one open space of teak, steel, sheer fabric and speakers set into the walls.

Architecture

Housing

UNI Editorial

publishedResults1 week ago

Slum Autonomy - A Paradox: A Balcony That Gives Rehoused Slum Dwellers Back Their Own Way of Using Space

A bamboo-railed balcony for rehabilitated slum housing in India turns loose wooden planks into seats, beds, shelves and a corner for worship.

Housing

Architecture

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog4 months ago

ADINJU Muhhe Studio Carves a Sunlit Gallery from a 1980s Nanjing Factory Shell

East Gallery's new 680-square-meter space in Nanjing preserves industrial scale while channeling afternoon light onto white exhibition walls.

Exhibition Space

Reclaimed Space

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog7 months ago

Space B: Adaptive Warehouse Redevelopment in Buenos Aires

Space B by Dodds Estudio transforms a Buenos Aires warehouse into a light-filled, flexible loft blending industrial heritage with modern, multifunctional living.

Reclaimed Space

Space Planning