Re-starting disused industrial buildings

RE-STARTING DISUSED INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS This thesis aims to research and analyze about practices of transformation of ordinary abandoned industrial buildings. A series of study cases on ordinary industrial buildings show how industrial infrastructures can be reused and transformed into something that suits the contemporary world and needs, without losing its value of memory for the society. The study cases demonstrate that ordinary industrial buildings, not listed as heritage can be re-used to transform and develop a city. They show how important any ordinary industrial building can be, and how they can affect cities 'urban fabrics. Deindustrialization has brought more and more architectural and urban waste in the environment we live in. Industries played an important role in cities development during the 19th and 20th century, and the economic and production changes in the industrial field led industrial buildings to relocate out of city centers, leaving empty disused abandoned industrial buildings in the cities. Reusing them according to the contemporary design and needs adjusts the urban cycle they belong to and in some cases saves more energy and time-transforming the environment and bringing architectural, economical, ecological, and social developments in cities. Abandoned industrial buildings are seen as waste in many cities, and the need to either destroy or keep them exactly as they were before, is mostly felt. However, restarting those industrial buildings can save from the destruction of their memory and change their status from being waste to resources. This practice is a "scaleless" transformation process that can be applied in any project, varying from small scale to urban scale. In that process of recycling, the old and new are combined and put together but still distinguished from each other. Restarting architecture of industrial buildings implies (minimizing, reducing, re-using, infilling, maintaining, subtracting, adding etc.) changes of the environment we live in by giving it a new meaning.