Underused buildings - Experimenting

Fabrica de Pensule is a former paintbrush factory in the historical industrial area of Cluj near the river and the railway track stopped activity in 2000 and remains empty.

Experimenting : incubating

In 2008 (...)

Kalasatama, an old harbour area, was one of the first areas in Helsinki, where temporary use was explored as a tool for area development. Now as the area is being built, the idea of using the area as a free ground for experimentation has taken a (...)

The Kypseli Municipal Market was a market of vegetables and fish, built in the 1930s. It operated as a market until the early 1990s in a middle class neighbourhood. Suburbanization, the decline of the area and the proliferation of (...)

In 2014, the City of Poznan established a particular municipal scheme to facilitate and encourage initiatives to occupy vacant spaces at the same time as refurbishing them: a preferential rate scheme. The scheme aims to support the (...)

In the middle of the Loire river in Nantes lies a small island, the Ile de Nantes or island of Nantes. For a long time, its use was primarily related to transport and industry. By the late 20th century, however—much like (...)

Facing the historical center of the city, the 30 000 m² Alstom Factory Halls are at the heart of the urban renewal plans of the Island of Nantes. The end of the industrial activity of the Alstom Factory allows the SAMOA (...)

The City of Aarhus (DK) has been testing the method of including young people in the redevelopment of empty buildings since 2013. By working with physical temporary use, for instance an empty municipal building the future use of which (...)

Located in the north-eastern part of Dusseldorf ’s fringe, Rath consists of heterogeneous housing areas. It still has affordable rents and traditional working- class districts, but it lacks public and green space, has several (...)