RESEARCH QUESTION How can the industrial fabric be used as a catalyst for change and as a strategy for redevelopment through adaptive re-use? How can derelict industrial lands be re-purposed, to reaffirm the existing local character and identity and contribute to local community?
“The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.” - Wendell Phillips
OBJECTIVES The field of the study of the report is a research of possible strategies which affect the reclamation of derelict industrial sites in urban areas using the concept of urban recycling. The Objective of the report are as follows: • How industrial sites contribute to the growth of a city by means of ‘urban consolidation’ • Exploring design and planning interventions on regenerating the industrial lands and understanding the impact of the regeneration on its surrounding. • Produce a tool kit and methodology on how to redevelop industrial sites in city centres by preserving large structures. • To implement the tool kit on a site and evaluate the possible outcome on its surrounding.
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