Project

Adaptive Reuse Strategies for Historic Buildings

Transformation of industrial heritage structures into contemporary cultural centers. The balance between structural reinforcement, preservation of period texture, and modern intervention language.

Adaptive reuse is the process of transforming historic structures into contemporary functions while preserving their original character. This approach makes both cultural heritage conservation and sustainable urban transformation possible simultaneously.

Industrial heritage structures — former factories, warehouses, silos, shipyards — are the most productive typologies for adaptive reuse. Their wide-span steel roofs, high ceilings, and industrial material palettes form ideal shells for contemporary cultural centers, offices, and creative industry spaces.

REACTO's most important principle in this field is "legibility of layers." During restoration, interventions from different periods are not erased but made visible. The brick wall from the 1920s, the reinforced concrete addition from the 1950s, and the contemporary intervention from the 2020s present a chronological section of the space.