CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Introduction – 10:30-11:00 (link)
Andrea Crudeli – A Non-Linear Stream of Consciousness on Adaptive Reuse
Panel A. 15/09 – 11:00-13:00 (link) (moderator: Andrea Crudeli)
Andreas Lechner – Typologies of Transformation
Barbora Ponešová Krejčová – Adaptive Reuse Strategies / Typology of Loss
Ed Green – Home: past present future
Luigi Arcopinto – An orange house for work
Carla Sechi, Pier Francesco Cherchi, Marco Lecis – Design Strategies for the Adaptive Reuse of Decommissioned Rural Churches
Vanni Sacconi – Between Site-Specificity and the Persistence of Memory: the Marino MarinI Museum in the Former Church of San Pancrazio, Florence
Panel B. 15/09 – 14:30-16:30 (link) (moderators: Emanuele Carrai, Emanuele Cremona)
Elena Guidetti – Unpacking buildings. Exploring adaptive reuse interventions and stages of completness
Simone Barbi – The Tectonics of Silence. Three works by Zhang Lei and AZL Architects in rural China
Melanie Tamm, Lionel Devlieger – Case Study: The Center for Fashion & Design – MAD – in Brussels, Belgium
Amaury Greig – Cultural Architecture as Adaptive Reuse: Revitalizing Context through Contemporary Design
Juan Jose Mateos, Camila Aybar – An act in eight variations, Instructions for Managing Obsolescence, 2006–2026
Panel C. 15/09 – 17:00-19:00 (link) (moderator: Francesca Molle)
Ruth Dowson – Filling the religious void – but with what? A strategic event management approach to the eventization of decommissioned and deconsecrated faith spaces
Francesco Chiacchiera – Care as design strategy. Adaptive Reuse as a curatorial practice
Gianluigi Mondaini, Francesco Chiacchiera – Periphery at the center. Adaptive reuse strategies for the former convent of San Francesco alle Scale in Ancona
Roger Such, Perich Ariadna – Visible Absence: The Adaptive Reuse of Santa Maria de Lillet by Vidal i Arderiu
Panel D. 16/09 – 11:00-13:00 (link) (moderator: Francesca Molle)
Patrizio Martinelli – Elements, Montage, Reclaimed: Some Notes on the Pedagogy of Adaptive Reuse
David Leech – A House within a House _ Fictions and Necessities
Benedetta Marradi – Sant’Agostino for all: adaptive and inclusive reuse of a monumental complex through digital technologies
Marco Bonaglia, Chiara Ferraris, Lorenzo Gonzo, Antonio Frisoli – Architecture in Transition: Adaptive Reuse of Industrial and Institutional Sites in Chongqing
Anne Scheinhardt – Too much context? Rome, its forgotten industrial past, and adaptive reuse
Panel E. 16/09 14:30-16:30 (link) (moderator: Andrea Crudeli)
Ralf Weber, Maya Weber – Adaptive Reuse of a Historic Mortuary Chapel in Dresden
Cristian Sammarco – Beyond Disuse: Architectural Reuse as an Act of Resacralization of the Cultural Landscape
Manuela Raitano – The re-edition of the existing: an ‘inglorious’ condition for contemporary architecture
Milena Farina, Mariella Annese – Adaptive Reuse for a children’s city
Panel F. 16/09 17:00-19:00 (link) (moderator: Elisa Barsanti)
Tobias Rabold – Doubting Spolia – Adaptive reuse of a stone
Monica Tusinean – Design Phenomenographies: Adaptive Reuse and the Reanimation of Post-Communist Industrial Ruins
Franc Shllaku – The Pyramid of Tirana, from the “mausoleum” of the Albanian communist dictator to a cultural hub
Emily Marie Shiga – 空き家 (Akiya) : Japan’s Abandoned Assets
Keynote Lecture – 17/09 11:00-13:00
Fabrizio Barozzi – Abby Kortrijk
Auditorium of School of Engineering of University of Pisa
L.go Lucio Lazzarino, 1, 56122 Pisa PI
Panel G. 18/09 09:30-11:30 (link) (moderator: Katharina Paschburg)
Imma Forino – Interior Reuse as an Italian Conversation with the Built Environment
Armando Consoli – Transforming the Palau Nacional: Gae Aulenti’s Evolving Approach to Architectural Adpative Reuse — Criticism, Context, and Design Compromise
Valerio Tolve – From lounge durée to innovation. Regenerating Alpine territories through the adaptive reuse as a strategy for sustainability and the rediscovery of everydaylife heritage
Bart Hollanders, Filippo Cattapan – (In) (Out) Si(d)(t)e
Benedetta Di Leo – A Manifesto for re-inhabiting inner areas. Twelve starting points to re-use and re-activate buildings and urban spaces in the Appennino Basso Pesarese – Anconetano
Emma Sumrow – Visible Invisibility: The Pyramid of Tirana as a Site of Public Spectacle and Private Power
Endy Prasetyo – Investigating Future Use of Abandoned Dutch Colonial-Era Sugar Factories in Java
Gabor Fabian – Transformation of a 100-year-old fruit storage building
Gabriel Ignacio Sánchez Valdés – Furniture as a Project Strategy in Adaptive Architecture
Panel H. 18/09 09:30-11:30 (link) (moderator: Mirko Romagnoli)
András Timár – Augmented reality based reconstructions in historical sites – an expamle form Aquincum
Georgios Vlachodimos – New technologies and design workflows in digital heritage Practices. The paradigm of 3d reconstruction of Propylaea in archaeological site of Delos in Greece
Giacomo Viscovo, Lorenzo Palladino, Giuseppe Sorrentino, Marco Staiano – URBAN SPOLIA: The Case of Carminiello ai Mannesi
Julian Snethlage – On-Site Reuse – Design strategies for the East Wing of the Festspielhaus Hellerau
Laura Suvieri, Fabio Bianconi, Marco Filippucci – Toward Systemic Reuse: a GIS-based model for adaptive reuse strategies in spatial planning
Mario Ambrogi, Elena D’Angelo, Tommaso Empler – Exploring Photogrammetry-Based Information Models within hBIM Contexts
Nikola Beim – Layered History: A Digital Palimpsest for Vienna’s Riesentor
Panel I. 18/09 12:00-14:00 (link) (moderator: Elisa Barsanti)
Claudia Battaino – Industrial topographies. Regenerative opening and crossing design
Ada Szmulik – “The Promised Land” – Reusing Industrial Architecture in Contemporary Poland
Agustin Azar – Plasticity and Distortion: Exploring Office Obsolescence in Buenos Aires through Adaptive Reuse
Damla Pilevne – The Aesthetics of Incompletion: Material Surfaces and Temporal Narratives in the Adaptive Reuse of Industrial Heritage in Istanbul
Eirini Travlou, Ivan Nevzgodin – [Re]formation of maritime dystopias
Francesco Lipparini – Unfolding the Layers: Legacy and potential futures of Reno Valley Paper Mills (Bologna)
Gino Baldi, Serena Comi – Stratigraphy as an adaptive tool for building heritage
Sara Ghirardini, Greta Allegretti, Pietro Brunazzi and Amath Luca Diatta – Fashion-based adaptive reuse and its cultural (and social) meaning
Panel L. 18/09 12:00-14:00 (link) (moderator: Mirko Romagnoli)
Ammalia Podlaszewska, Ina Valkanova – New InHerit: Adaptive Reuse Beyond the Building – Reframing Cultural Heritage through Community-Driven Activation
Claudia Aveta – The Restoration Project: Architecture, Function and Energy Efficiency
Daniel Rea – Regenerative processes at scale: Port Talbot and the future of large industrial sites in the UK
Guiller James Lopez, Brinda Sarma, Vasiliki Pezodromou – What If It Survived?: Virtual Adaptive Reuse and the Case of Bodénska Huset
Marianna Arcieri, Oscar Eugenio Bellini – Responsive University Residence: Case Studies and Design Approaches
Pinelopi Filothei Karali, Claudia Gowgiel – FRICKS – Upcycled Foamed Bricks
Giuseppe Canestrino – Climbing a village. Methods and design outcomes for the widespread reuse of the hard-to-reach historic centre of Morano Calabro
Panel M. 18/09 15:00-17:00 (link) (moderator: Elisa Barsanti)
Maria Arno – Adaptive Reuse of Roman Catholic Churches for Secular Purposes: Church and Conservator Perspectives on the Challenges of Desacralization
Alberto Ferraresi – Former Saint Dominic convent (Pesaro, Italy)
Angelo Passuello – The Active Reuse of Timber Trusses in Medieval Roofing Systems: Strategies of Conservation,Integration, and Replacement
Antonio Carvalho, Alarico Ruffino – Conservation and Re-Use: the case of the ancient Muslim District of Xi’an, China
Francesca Daprà, Andrea Dechamps, Martina Pagliarani, Andrea Bongiovanni – Living Stones. Adaptive Reuse and Social Regeneration of Abandoned Monastic Complexes in Italy
Francesco Leoni, Rebecca Fascia, Livio Pinto – Architectural Identity and Reuse: The Benedictine Church Case study in Piacenza
Giulia De Lucia – Adaptive reuse of underused churches: an historical urban-scale perspective from the historical centre of Turin
Ena Kukić, Dinko Jelečević – Industrial Memoryscape: Adaptive Reuse of KRAK in Bihać as a Catalyst for Cultural and Urban Regeneration
Panel N. 18/09 15:00-17:00 (link) (moderator: Davide Lucia)
Adrian Niculaș – Railway heritage – the architecture of the Deda-Sărățel line
Ana Curk – Endangered Architectural Heritage: Adaptive Reuse of the War-Damaged General Staff Building in Belgrade
Andrea Dechamps, Francesca Daprà, Maria Pilar Vettori – Dwelling in Memory: Adaptive Reuse and Technological Design Strategies for the Bestetti Hangar in Arcore
Brunilda Basha, Erika Ruiz – Memory, Function, and Space: Adaptive Reuse as a Strategy for Reintegrating Ottoman Heritage in Albania
Douglas Hassebroek – Your Gate Has Changed: Adaptive Reuse at the Heart of the Modern Airport
Elvina Shanggrama Wijaya, Stephanus Wirawan Dharmatanna, Timoticin Kwanda – The Adaptive Reuse of Pos Bloc Heritage Building Surabaya
Germán Ramírez González – Between Spolia and Restauro Critico: Adaptive Reuse and Historicity in Two Bogotá Case Studies
Gözde Kuzu Dinçbaş – Adaptive Reuse and Conservation of Historical Buildings in Kayseri
Hulya Aybek – Reclaiming the Forgotten: Reuse of Yenice Hanı for a Resilient Cultural Landscape near Termessos Ancient City
Panel O. 18/09 17:30-19:30 (link) (moderator: Andrea Crudeli)
Abderrahman Benammar, Ebru Omay Polat – The adaptive reuse threshold involves preserving architectural character while minimising the visibility of functional adaptations
Andrésde Santiago Aréizaga – Ruins, resistance and record. Adaptive reuse as strategy for cultural survivalism in Palestine
Carlos Labarta, José Antonio Alfaro – Intervention in the Compromise of Caspe Castle. Aragón (Spain)
Deniz Çevik, Özgün Özçakır – Adaptive Reuse Trajectories: Public Involvement and Spatial Strategies in Three Istanbul Gasworks
Enam Rabbi Adnan, Md. Bhuiyan, Tazrin Islam – From Confinement to Community Integration: Revitalizing the Old Dhaka Central Jail Through Adaptive Reuse
Esra Özkan Yazgan, Sermin Çakıcı Alp – Determining an adaptive reuse strategy for cultural sustainability: A discussion on Ottoman baths (hammam) in Turkey
Faye Davies – Reclaiming the People’s Palace: Historical Transformation and Critical Conservation at Great Yarmouth’s Winter Gardens
Giulia Baccetti – From waste to worth. Adaptive reuse practices in participatory processes for disused minor heritage assets
Panel P. 18/09 17:30-19:30 (link) (moderator: Davide Lucia)
Cecilia Sundström – Changing values of adaptive reuse: conflicting motivations in sustainable urban development
Giuseppina Bosso – From “definitive” to “reversible” architecture
Karolina Pieniazek – Restoring Transparency: Conceptual Adaptive Reuse of the Panoramic Cinema in Tashkent
Mariateresa Petino – Adaptive Reuse and the Architecture of Memory: Eduardo Souto de Moura’s Pousada Santa Maria do Bouro as a Case Study
Walter Nicolino – The learning factory – An adaptive reuse of a former factory in Bologna for the new headquarters of a university for applied arts and design
Aleksandra Pešterac – The Poetics of Abandonment in Architecture
Michela Bassanelli – Adaptive Reuse for Museums on Sites of Perpetrators
Lisandra Perez Zayas, Rafael Vargas Correa – From Waste to Opportunity: Leveraging Upcycled Plastic Materials and Digital Prototyping Technologies for the Repurposing of an Abandoned Storage Building in Puerto Rico’s Former Sanitary City
Silvia Domene-Camarasa, Sergio Ortín-Molina – Beyond Materiality: Adaptive Reuse as a Situated and Ethical Practice in the Global South
Panel Q. 19/09 09:30-11:30 (link) (moderators: Emanuele Carrai, Emanuele Cremona)
Jonas Klaassen – Ephemeral Reuse: Architectures for Progress and Permanence in Urban Space
Karl Kvaran – The (Re)interpretation of Stöng
Maddalena Ferretti – Adaptive architectures for inner territories
Michele Dovere – Ruins and Reels
Pedro Mendes da Rocha – A Museum of the Portuguese Language at the Luz Station
Zsófia Horváth-Farkas, Bence Török, Fruzsina Barta – Architecture of the found – Broadening the perspective of adaptive reuse from buildings to materials
Luca Esposito – Interior Reuse: Rewriting the Infra-Ordinary for Flexible Living
Panel R. 19/09 09:30-11:30 (link) (moderator: Luca Tesei)
Federico Maria Giorgi, Oscar Eugenio Bellini – Transforming historical structures into great good places of university life: French student-housing projects that breathe new life into industrial heritage sites
Lieven De Groote, Ana Castillo – A Living Lab. Design, Development and Implementation of Circular Renovation Strategies
Liliane Janine Nizzola – The Brazilian Fortress of São José da Ponta Grossa – the challenges of restoring and providing accessibility
Manlio Michieletto – Reviving the Caravanserai: Adaptive Reuse of the Wikala of Qansuh al-Ghuri in Old Cairo
Miquel Peiro, Anna Maria Bordas Geli – A Comparative Analysis of Adaptive Reuse Design Strategies in Two Recent Cultural Projects in Rennes: The New Museum of Fine Arts in Maurepas (Titan Architectes) and the Saint-Hélier Cultural Center (Guinée Potin)
Pedro Murilo Gonçalves de Freitas – Design strategies of Palazzo Agonigi da Scorno intervention by Piero Sanpaolesi: bridging urban remains through formal continuity
Simone Gheduzzi – The matrix of the present. Redevelopment project of the deconsecrated church of San Barbaziano in Bologna (video)
Tommaso Berretta – Reclaiming Modern Heritage through Adaptive Reuse: The Case of the ExtraLibera
Panel S. 19/09 12:00-14:00 (link) (moderators: Emanuele Carrai, Emanuele Cremona)
Francesco Iuliano – The role of Urban and University Policies in the Adaptive Reuse of intermediate spaces between the Student Community and the City. The case of West Naples
Laura Magri, Muck Petzet – From “Baukultur” to “Umbaukultur”: A Critical Framework for Adaptive Reuse
Marko Filipović, Zoran Šobić, Srđan Stojanović – Adaptive Reuse and the Politics of Urban Development: Analyzing Belgrade’s Nikola Tesla Museum Competition
Rabab Raes Kazem, Noor Abdulkhaleq – The Memory of Oil: Re-Inhabiting Kuwait’s Forgotten Modernism
Saadet Kök Ayaz, Duygu Cankurtaran – Creative Pedagogies of Adaptive Reuse: Reimagining İstanbul SSK Zeyrek Building
Stefanos Adamakis – Osmotic Contiguity: Negotiating Memory, Material, and Meaning through Design Competitions
James Hamilton, Malin Heyman – Ambiguous Houses: Adaptive Reuse as Situated Design Inquiry in Swedish Welfare-Era Architecture
Milena Farina – Adaptive Reuse for collective spaces in modern neighborhoods
Panel T. 19/09 12:00-14:00 (link) (moderator: Luca Tesei)
Irene Pasina – Reviving Heritage for a Resilient Urban Future: The Heart of Sharjah Project in UAE
Karina Brünner – Pastoral properties as a resource for revitalizing town centers
Larissa Mörschbächer – Venice Charter (1964) and Madrid-New Delhi Document (2017): Some Conceptual Developments on Authenticity
Merve Eylül Zorlu, Gamze Kahraman – Adaptive Reuse Evaluation of Industrial Heritage: Case Studies from Istanbul, Türkiye
Toni Vidal Jordi – Ca n’Oliver. 10 years of dynamic reuse
Vsevolod Kondratiev-Popov – Seconded Subjectivity: Design Agency in Reuse
Concetta Tavoletta, Vittorio Vernazzani – Topographies of Care: adaptive Reuse, from Last-Scape to Safe Space
Magnus Reffs Kramhøft, Line Kjær Frederiksen – Finding relevance in the overlooked – A case study into value assessment methodologies for interventions in younger obsolete buildings
Panel U. 19/09 15:00-17:00 (link) (moderator: Emine Zeytin)
Eduardo Delgado Orusco – For freedom. The reuse of the old provincial prison in Palencia as a Social and Cultural Center
Fernando Moral – What Time Belongs to Heritage?: Abandonment, Reactivation, and the Closure of Peripheral Heritage in the Projects La Tabacalera and Zapadores – Ciudad del Arte (Madrid)
Kivanic Kilinc – Adaptive Reuse With or Without Architecture: The Curious Disappearance of Three Buildings in Türkiye
Mahwish Ghulam Rasool – Layers of Meaning: Adaptive Reuse, Cultural Continuity, and the Spirit of Place in Pakistan’s Heritage Architecture
Paul Susini – And the smell of rot fills the country
Thomas Provost – Secularization and Radical Collaboration in Detroit’s Third Places
Yesim Kutkan Ozturk – Continuity Through Sacred Transitions: The Religious Afterlife of the Temple of Augustus and Roma in Ankara
Zhengwen Zhu – Contemporary Spolia in Adaptive Reuse
Panel V. 19/09 15:00-17:00 (link) (moderator: Francesca Molle)
Jose Bernardi – Unveiling the past: The case of the ex-Monastery of San Pablo in Oaxaca
José Evandro Henriques, Fernando Moreira, Robert Schmidt III, Mila Santos – Matter and Spirit: the adaptive reuse of the Queira-Deus House in Brazil
Julia García González – The adaptation of archaeological sites through the use of contemporary architecture. Examples of good practice in Spain
Laura De Riso, Teresa Cunha Ferreira – Preserving the palimpsest: adaptive reuse by Álvaro Siza of Donnaregina Palace (MADRE) in Naples
Julia Nerantzia Tzortzi, Stavroula Pagona Kopelia – Reframing Finality: Álvaro Siza’s uinta da Malagueira as a Dynamic Urban Tapestry
Radu Tudor Ponta, Emil Burbea-Milescu – Uncertain Promises. The Unresolved Case of the Rulmentul Brașov, Romania
Rita Vasco – Memory. Territory. Identity: Heritage Interventions at the Church of Santa Maria do Castelo in Castelo Mendo [Portugal]
Aleksandr Mergold – Toward an American Spolia
Panel Z. 19/09 17:30-19:30 (link) (moderator: Emine Zeytin)
Hyunggyu Kim, Kwangmin Lee – Dive with me! The possibility of democratic architectural experience in the age of infinite media
Liziane Mangili, Pedro Pereira – Toward Critical Intervention Strategies: A Diagnosis of Adaptive Reuse for Brazil’s Railway Heritage
Maria Yioutani-Iacovides – Recreating the City; Manchester’s journey of Regeneration and Adaptive Reuse in the 21st century
Marta Rymar, Magdalena Czelna-Mikosz, Katarzyna Solińska – Between History and Modernity: Two Examples of Historic Building Adaptation in Krosno, Poland
Mayuri Deodhar – Reimagining Abandonment: Adaptive Reuse of Cultural Infrastructure in the Historic Town of Achalpur, India
Vladimir Bojković – Reframing a Monument: The Home of Revolution in Nikšić between Memorial Architecture and Fragmented Adaptive Reuse
Zhenzhen Yu, Robert Schmidt-III, Simon Richards – Constructing a Multi-Dimensional Analytical Framework for the Adaptive Reuse of Heritage Buildings: Spatial Transformation, Narrative Layering, and Identity Reconstruction
Raffaella Cavallaro – Preserving the Past, Shaping the Future: Educational Reuse of Historical Buildings
Panel X. 19/09 17:30-19:30 (link) (moderator: Francesca Molle)
Paolo Belardi, Monica Battistoni, Camilla Sorignani, – Learning from earthquake. Scaffolding as Adaptive Art and Architecture
Luis del Campanar Santos Muñoz – Adaptive Reuse and the Heritage Future of Bullrings in Spain: Roofing and Re-signifying the Bullfighting Space
Marziyeh Bazyar – Reframing Heritage: Hans Hollein’s Transformation of a Mansion into a Museum
Mehmet Ali Karagöz, Mine Topçubaşi, Esra Büyükemi̇r Karagöz – From Fez to Art: The Historical Transformation of Feshane
Nevena Novaković – Adaptive reuse and gentrification of historic heritage in contemporary Serbia: social movement “Ansambl Generalštab” as generator of change in cultural field
Syed Hamid Akbar – Reactivating Colonial Heritage: Adaptive Reuse as a Tool for Urban Regeneration in Karachi
Trayana Kovacheva – Reinventing Liberty: Adaptive Reuse and the Contemporary Life of Early Modern Architecture
Yi Xing Chow – Adaptive Reuse of Shophouses in George Town, Malaysia: Postcolonial Identity, Heritage Conservation, and Spatial Care