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Reclaiming Heritage

17 Projects 26 Journals 6 Publications

About Discussions Projects17 Journals26 Publications6

Reclaiming heritage involves thoughtful intervention in spaces and landscapes that carry cultural significance. Designers and architects working in this area balance preservation with contemporary needs, asking how historical sites can remain relevant and productive rather than static.

The community explores adaptive reuse of industrial structures, revitalization of disappearing cultural landscapes, archaeological approaches to urban transformation, and sensitive interventions that honor both heritage and living communities. Projects range from mill conversions and village preservation to museum design and the reactivation of historic urban centers.

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UNI Editorial12 works

Mohamed El-kurdi1 work

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.

Sara

Re-Coding Post War Syria

Reinterpretation of the ancient mud house and using it as a tool for a cultural revival

Mehedi

Hodi-Mandai Geram: A Culturally Sensitive Village for a Disappearing Ethnic Group

What if architecture reveals itself as the only vessel of memory and culture for a disappearing community? By combining Neuroscientific, Anthropological, Economic, and Psychological themes along with Participatory Community Design and Adaptive Architecture, the thesis imagines built environments that evolve with the Hodis' cultural essence.( B.Arch Thesis)

Fatiha Tanjim

Beyond Rediscovery: Reclaiming Alijan Jute Mill as a Living Productive Landscape

This project transforms Narsingdi’s colonial-period Alijan Jute Mill into a river-resilient, worker-centered heritage district. Using New Contextualism, it blends production, housing, culture, and commerce into an active urban system, reconnecting the Meghna riverfront through adaptive reuse and sustainable urban regeneration.

Namrata

Transforming Landscapes, Architecture of Archaeology

A design-based investigation that proposes the convergence of the architectural and archaeological landscapes. It represents an attempt to avoid drastically altering the original landscape of an archaeological site, by closely studying the archaeological finds and placing it across time and space, to foster a unified collective memory. Keeladi-Tamil Nadu, IN

Nilay

Redefining the Urban fabric of Manek Chowk, Ahmedabad.

The project aims to design & solve built forms and public open spaces addressing typologies of housing and shops in high-density areas of Indian markets situated in an urban context evolved over the years. It retains the heritage aspect by resolving streetscape, elevated housing units, shop typologies and the addition of library, museum & exhibition spaces.

UNI

publishedResults5 months ago

Mohini Mill Revitalized: Adaptive Reuse Across 19.79 Acres of Industrial Heritage

A phased urban strategy transforms Bangladesh's largest abandoned textile mill into a cultural hub of six thematic zones and circular urbanism.

Reclaiming Heritage

Industrial Building

Mehedi Hasan

publishedStory2 months ago

Hodi-Mandai Geram

Project Function: Preservation and revitalization of the Intangible heritage and socio-spatial identity of the Hodi by Housing, Cultural Memory Center, Sacred Grove, landscape, local tourism economy

Heritage Protection

Cultural Architecture