Survey on Cultural Heritage Adaptive Reuse practices

Id Name Description Action
3316 Simonsland, Sweden Simonsland is a municipal historical building that was built in 1918. It was located in an urban city that used to be a manufacturing area and now developed into a modern city with its signature from textile heritage. The symbolic value of the building is the textile industry, and this has also influenced the symbolic of the city. Earlier its only function was being an industry which now in current use have turned into a fashion center with restaurants, conference, university, Cafe, museum and so on… Simonsland is private owned both before and after reuse. The building is funded by a private organization for-profit and as well as after the reuse. The center manages to find new uses and a new role in the society linked to the original functions, from a textile industry to a modern fashion center with multifunctional uses. The adaptive reuse was financial by PPP, Private Public Partnership.
3317 Trädgårdens skola, Sweden Dacapo Mariestad is a platform for a network of university and college education. In the training matrix you will find information about the courses and programs that are available to study at Trädgården's school. There is also the opportunities for studying a program or a course at a distance to find a place in an inspiring study environment. In order for a municipality and its inhabitants to grow and develop, education, visions and active cooperation with other actors are required. Dacapo Mariestad is a municipal platform that gathers all this, and more, in a unique network at local and regional level. With us, there is nutrition development, future thinking and exciting projects for creative industries - all in the same greenhouse.
3318 Inredia, Sweden Inredia is housed in an old shirt factory from 1944. It is a 1,500 square meter building on three levels. Inredia was inaugurated in autumn 2012. It is a house with many functions. Inredia is a visitor and meeting center for both visitors and inhabitants in Tibro. In the house there are visitor and meeting services, meeting rooms, offices, a restaurant with full rights and dynamic exhibitions, where Tibro's solid furniture and interior design history is presented and linked with today's and future decorating skills. Entire Inredia is characterized by Tibro's living cultural heritage. Cooperation at local, regional, national and international level Inredia is basically much more than a house. It is a project that deals with collaboration at local, regional, national and international level, about linking designers and manufacturers together, strengthening existing producers, creating new interior experiences and an international platform for Swedish interior design.
3319 Brewhouse, Sweden Brewhouse is a “culture factory” located in central Gothenburg and is an open and innovative business with a broader and attractive business climate, greater genre width in the field of culture and cross-border meetings. There ambition is that Western Sweden will become a creative, artistic and entrepreneurial hub in Sweden, and this will be one of the initiatives. Innovative event and concert venues, studio and office rental in raw factory environment, a 60-number company in creative industries, incubator activities / business support for startups in creative industries and award-winning talent development projects, Brewhouse Big Band and The Brewhouse Award. Here roads are crossed, here contacts are made and here connections and relationships are created. It’s a meeting place for casual visitors, people in bypass, musicians, artists, creators and entrepreneurs, young and old.
3320 Le BRASS Centre Culturel de Forest, Belgium The building named today BRASS was built in 1903 as a second brewhouse by the notorious Belgian family Wielemans-Ceuppens. This important landmark was the result of the flourishing business of the family and the innovation they wanted to introduce following a trip in Germany and Austria to learn about the production of low fermentation beer. Therefore, Le BRASS was equipped with refrigerating machines for low beer production fermentation, a state-of-the-art machinery room, as well as its own forge and its own power plant. The design of the building was not only functional, marbles, tiles and glass ceilings represent aesthetic requirements of the Wielemans. A real witness of the brewing industrial heritage of the early twentieth century in Belgium. Indeed, the scientific and architectural value were revealed exemplary while the cisterns were considered also as a symbol that belonged to the community. This intangible asset linked to the collective memory and the relationship of the peopl
3321 Train World Museum, Belgium As part of the adaptive reuse of the train station of the municipality of Schaerbeek SumProject designed the Train World Museum. In doing so, the two historic station buildings dating back to 1887 and the 1920s have been restored and they form an important part of the new museum. The project has made it possible to restore the historic buildings, the public spaces surrounding them as well as the adjacent railways infrastructures.
3323 Riot studio, Italy A secret garden within the heart of the ancient city of Naples. Riot studio is a special place, home-like, gallery-like, studio-like ... such venue is dedicated to arts and new ideas - both experimental and independent ones - having an international, site-specific program. At Riot studio, one wonders, experiences and browses through the tangles of knowledge, innovation and analogue and digital sharing. Significantly noticeable among previous projects are: Riot studio’s organisation of TEDx Naples, the format Who is the designer, live radio broadcasting, design, sound art and drawing workshops, , and the festivals of independent music "at home" and of contemporary art “Aperture”
3325 Tour à Plomb, Belgium The industrial complex of Tour à Plomb, alias Brussels shot tower, was built in 1832 as a gunpowder factory (poudrière). Subsequently, a foundry and a workshop were established and in 1898 the shot tower was constructed. In 1873, the industrial site became the property of the company Pelgrim and Bombeeck and in the 1930s it became part of the Hoboken Overpelt Metallurgry (Mardaga, 1975). In 1962 the site was abandoned. Since 1975, it was partially used by the Arts and Crafts institute and the Bischoffsheim Institute (high school) and successfully by the Demot-Couvreur Institute (high school). Since the 2000s, the complex was unused.
3326 Casino Palace, Poland The building was built at the beginning of the XX century with the thought of residents of the city in mind – it was supposed to be a place of rest and play. During the II World War it became a hospital for the wounded and after that, it was a school and a holiday resort. In the 1990’s it became abandoned and was facing complete destruction since there was no money to renovate it. The city wanted to sell it to private owners but thanks to the work of a group of citizens who managed to find money for renovation it became a cultural centre for the city and this is the function that it plays until today.
3327 Ecomuseum in Lanckorona, Poland Lanckorona Ecomuseum is a networked and open museum that covers the entire space of four rural municipalities near Cracow – Lanckorona, Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, Stryszów, Mucharz. The main goal of the Ecomuseum is to create local spaces for tourism, recreation, leisure and, as a consequence of profits, cultural and social activation of municipalities’ residents. It is a network of organizations and private actors, so there is no one owner (however the main umbrella organization is Go?ciniec 4 ?ywio?ów). It is financed by the individual social and private actors which are participating in Lanckorona Ecomusuem.