Repurposing the Built Environment: Emerging Challenges and Key Entry Points for Future Research

Viola, Serena; Diano, Donatella

doi:10.3390/su11174669

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“…"Learning from comparison" allows for the acquisition of new experiences that can be transferred to other contexts [36]. Finally, by comparing the various projects with the emerging criteria, it is possible to determine a matrix that shows how the latter are present, albeit in a less dominant form, in the other projects.…”

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Regeneration Criteria for Adaptive Reuse of the Waterfront Ecosystem: Learning from the US Case Study to Improve European Approach

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The article addresses the contemporary debate on urban and environmental regeneration, investigating the need to establish new criteria to implement the defence of coastal ecosystems by climate problems. The research looks at coastal vulnerabilities, starting with the environmental fragility of flooding, as an opportunity to regenerate waterfront ecosystems. The research aim concerns the analysis of US advanced regeneration practices to learn and transfer the principles derived from them to the European context. This transferability takes place through the construction of regeneration criteria for the coastal ecosystems rebalancing. The regeneration criteria are resulted from an ecosystem reading of the winning projects of the Rebuild by Design competition. These practices represent in the scientific literature an exceptional example of a holistic response to the problem of post-disaster intervention. These cases offer an integrated response in terms of processes, investments, the duration of the design and realization. In addition, these cases simultaneously address multiple vulnerabilities, making it possible to extrapolate from their analysis specific directions to replicate in contexts where even just one of the critical issues exist. The methodological analyses exploit the focus emerged from the scientific literature on environmental vulnerabilities, technological innovation, and stakeholder involvement. The results are regeneration criteria able to verify the appropriateness of ecosystem anti-flooding strategies. Comparing the results with the most recent US and the EU strategic documents, the regeneration criteria demonstrate their relevance and coherence with the international priorities as well as their potential transferability to the European context.

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Regeneration Criteria for Adaptive Reuse of the Waterfront Ecosystem: Learning from the US Case Study to Improve European Approach

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“…A guardian columnist survey reveals that about sixty structures within the CBD between a minimum of five floors to a maximum of twenty floors with an average of 6000m 2 per floor are empty and unused (Wahab, 2020;Yakubu, 2019). The above statistics show that these buildings can reduce the 3 million housing deficit in Lagos by 10% if innovatively repurposed (Viola and Diano, 2019). In addition to the government-owned buildings, there are even more recent commercial developments within the adjoining districts that have remained empty in the last five years due to high renting prices (Adedayo and Malik, 2015;Adeshokan, 2019).…”

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“…They also underline five major obstacles: physical design, location, financial and legal aspects and a changing real estate market with a growing gap between demand and supply (Ball, 1999;Ramoy and Van der Voordt, 2014;United Nations, 2014). Most importantly, the above scenarios reveal the importance of a proactive government in making adaptive reuse a resilient post-traumatic response tool for cities (Remoy and Van der Voordt, 2007;2014;Viola and Diano, 2019).…”

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Covid Ruins, Tomorrow's Homes? Analysis of an Adaptive Re-Use Approach to Affordable Housing for Metropolitan Cities in the Global South

Ugwuonah¹

2022

JRAP

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Acute housing shortage and empty office spaces are likely to emerge as critical urban issues of the post-pandemic (COVID-19) metropolitan cities, considering that the ‘new norms’ of existential patterns have brought about visible socio-economic impacts. With the remote work lifestyle, the commercial real estate litter with underutilised public buildings. Thus, begging the question “could these corporate buildings effectively transform to provide affordable housing in metropolitan cities?” This paper focuses on adaptive reuse as an urban resilience strategy for metropolitan cities in the global south, using Lagos, Nigeria, as a context for the study. The opportunities and challenges of adaptive reuse are considered by reviewing the responses of cities to similar urban crises in the past. Existing literature was reviewed and analysed through a comprehensive desktop research to understand the urban implication of unused spaces in developing countries, effect of policy on adaptive reuse and the implication of adaptation outcomes on affordability. Based on the findings, a research gap was identified. Primary data was collected using online survey and the results were analysed. An adaptive reuse strategy is recommended for housing the youths and the middle class in underused cooperate buildings within cities of developing countries. This paper concludes that reuse of office spaces provides an excellent opportunity for a sustainable housing strategy in metropolitan cities of developing countries through tactical designing and planning approaches, informed by the peculiarities of the society identified within participatory design processes. Keywords: Urban Strategy, Global South, Pandemic, COVID-19, Changing Urban Pattern, Affordable Housing, Circular Economy, Housing Crisis, Sustainable Spaces, Adaptive Reuse

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“…The design solutions implemented in the case studies have been compared both with the current recommendations outlined in the previous paragraphs for Italian historic buildings (MiBACT and UNI EN 16883:2017) and with the constraints to the transformation of heritage buildings identified in the scientific literature in the field of building rehabilitation [17,[94][95][96][97]. Notably, the following constraints have been considered:…”

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Italian Architectural Heritage and Photovoltaic Systems. Matching Style with Sustainability

Medici

2021

Sustainability

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Rehabilitation and management of pre-industrial architectural heritage over time has played a central role in the international scientific debate since the 1970s. In light of the experience gained in this field, the challenge of a controlled and consistent integration of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) requires a careful reflection on the compatibility criteria between new technologies and traditional building’s identity. Several of these technologies, such as photovoltaic (PV) systems, need to be placed on the building envelope or in appropriate outdoor areas, altering the architectural image and the landscape. Therefore, the characteristics of each building and its context should lead designers to choose solutions able to balance the need for increased energy production from RES with the need for preserving the identity of architectural heritage and landscape. A preliminary evaluation of rehabilitation projects allows to improve building sustainability and, in the meanwhile, to prevent any irreversible alteration of the cultural heritage. With reference to Italian case studies and guidelines for improving sustainability in energy production, the paper leads to identify evaluation criteria for the introduction of PV systems in pre-industrial buildings. Such criteria, which are based on architectural heritage values, allow for assessing the consistency of the building envelope alteration with conservation issues, in projects involving PV and, generally, solar technologies that need to be integrated with the building envelope.

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Repurposing the Built Environment: Emerging Challenges and Key Entry Points for Future Research

Cited by 17 publications

References 18 publications

Regeneration Criteria for Adaptive Reuse of the Waterfront Ecosystem: Learning from the US Case Study to Improve European Approach

Regeneration Criteria for Adaptive Reuse of the Waterfront Ecosystem: Learning from the US Case Study to Improve European Approach

Covid Ruins, Tomorrow's Homes? Analysis of an Adaptive Re-Use Approach to Affordable Housing for Metropolitan Cities in the Global South

Italian Architectural Heritage and Photovoltaic Systems. Matching Style with Sustainability

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