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Workshop
Conversion of dismissed industrial areas: strategies for urban redevelopment

Organized by i.CUP (institute for the Contemporay Urban Project) for the presentation of the research “Industrial buildings – a survey, analysis, and appraisal of the potential for conversion of disused industrial buildings in Ticino”.
The objective of the workshop is to analyze strategies and realized projects of reuse, transformation and redevelopment of dismissed industrial selected by the international panorama. The workshop will focus on methods of intervention for the riqualification and intensification of urban functions of the sites in relation with the construction of new urban context.

Thursday, February 28th 2008
Accademia di architettura
Palazzo Canavée, Main Hall
Free entrance

Final Report (3.8 Mb)