Survey on Cultural Heritage Adaptive Reuse practices

Id Name Description Action
3622 Lanthieri Manor, Slovenia The Lanthieri Manor was one of the summer houses of the Lanthieri family from Gorizia. originally built in 1669 in the old town of Vipava (an important settlement in the connection Alps-Adriatic Sea), the palace was subject to many adaptation, culminating in the 1762 intervention that gave to it its present neobaroque appearance, simulating a Veneto villa, recalling the Longobard origin of the family. Since the early 2000 the building has been renovated through an investment of more than 4 million euros from different sources (European, National, local and private) and given in concession for 85 years to the University of Nova Gorica, that is hosting cultural activities and contributing to the revitalisation of the town of Vipava, previously in slow abandonement.
3623 Albergo Diffuso Zoncolan, Italy The Albergo Diffuso, on the slopes of the eponymous and now famous mountain, makes available to those who stay in its land, its beautiful houses. It is a new form of accommodation: restored barns, old stables, alpine houses with a past full of history that become independent rented lodgings, inserted in the architectural, historical and natural context of the places in which they are located. Distributed along the valleys, in perched hamlets or at the bottom of the valley, they make tourists feel part of the community that hosts them. The Carnic tradition emerges in the smallest detail of the houses, each one different in appearance according to their village but having in common the love for small and simple things. Nests of wood and stone, characteristic chalets that combine the charm of the Carnic tradition with the comfort of modern alpine hospitality, offering the intimacy of a mountain home and the comfort of a hotel, allowing guests to manage their stay.
3624 Open Jazdów, Poland Open Jazdów settlement is both the name of a community and of actions undertaken in Jazdów settlement in Warsaw. After the Second World War, colony of Finnish houses that were constructed there, served as residential area for workers of Warsaw Reconstruction Bureau. The whole area is a park with 27 wooden houses, a unique situation in the middle of a city centre. Open Jazdów is a partnership of foundations, associations and other NGOs governing most of the area (with gardens). The partnership is open for access and cooperation, however, each of the partners are governed on their own, therefore having individual budgets and managements. Nowadays, Open Jazdów splits together residential and public functions. In the houses and adjacent gardens live and act next to each other: residents, non-governmental organizations, urban gardeners and beekeepers, academics and students, artists and workers of businesses, cooperatives, embassies and public institutions.
3625 Zitadelle Spandau, Germany Spandau Castle was indirectly mentioned for the first time in 1197. The Margraves of Brandenburg had built it on the site of an old Slavic settlement at the place where the rivers Havel and Spree meet. Between 1559 and 1594 the rulers, now titled Electors, built a fortress on the site to protect the nearby residential city of Berlin. In the spring of 1813 the fortress was severely damaged during the wars against Napoleon. From 1874 to 1919 the “Reichskriegsschatz” (Imperial War Treasure) was stored in the Julius Tower. The National Socialists housed laboratories for poisonous gas in the Citadel. Since 1945 the area has been used solely for non-military purposes. For more than three decades a college for trainee builders was housed in parts of the complex. When the college moved in 1986, the site became more and more important as a cultural centre. Today, the Citadel is the Island of History, offering lots to see and experience – one of Berlin’s foremost cultural and tourist “magnets”.
3627 Fort K'IJK - Fort bij Krommeniedijk, Netherlands Fort Kijk is part of Unesco WHS Defence Line of Amsterdam, a 135km fortification ring, protecting the city of Amsterdam in a radius of apx. 10-15km. This waterline fortification system, developed in the Netherlands in the 19th century was designed to inundate the surrounding area of about 30cm, which was to shallow to cross with a boat and too inconvenient for an infantry attack. Forts protected the bottlenecks of road crossings and landscape features. The start of heavy machinery warfare (tanks, aeroplanes), made this system obsolete. The forts are now managed by the local councils and nature department and are open for a visit. The fort is connected to the city of Amsterdam with a wast bicycle road, as well as multiple pedestrian paths offering hiking.
3628 Škratelj Homestead - Slovene Cinemateque museum, Slovenia A ruin of a typical Karst village homestead enclosed with Borja? (stonewall enclosure of the property), called Škratelj Homestead, was carefully restored to house the Museum of Slovenian Film Actors in Diva?a. The complex consists of three buildings embracing the paved courtyard and grass open-air cinema. The main house and the most dominant building is restored to show the ethnological heritage and is reserved for the permanent exposition of the Slovene actress Ita Rita. The ruined Stable has a new suspended structure, gently touching the original walls and creating an intermission between old and new. The newly restored stable holds a permanent exposition devoted to the development of Slovene cinematography. In the old barn is a small screening multipurpose hall.
3629 Fort Bakkerskil, Netherlands Fort Bakkersil used to be part of the New Dutch Waterline, housing approximately one hundred soldiers and was in service until 1951. Since 2012 it is converted into a luxury Bed&Breakfast providing sustainable maintenance and contemporary use.
3630 Fort Resort Beemster, Netherlands The Fort bij Nekkerweg, (Fort Resort Beemster) is part of the Amsterdam defence waterline, and it was constructed in 1913. In 2012 it was converted into a luxury wellness centre with hotel and restaurants. It represents a successful modern lifestyle adaptive re-use, incorporating military, cultural heritage. The new intervention is an underground extension, which does not interfere with the forts visual appearance in the landscape. The extension houses spa and wellness, which includes an indoor and outdoor pool, whirlpools, saunas and steam baths. The complex also has two restaurants, a conference room and a hotel. The sustainable energetic systems have been incorporated in the design, about 28 km of floor heating have been installed, fed with the heat recovered from wastewater of saunas and showers. (MD)
3701 Locanda Rosa Rosae, Italy The Locanda Rosa Rosae is a private project of renovation of a rural mill in the countryside of Treviso in Italy, by adaptation to a private residence as well as to a guesthouse with restaurants, for limited groups of people and oriented towards an authentic local experience. The leading principle of renovation is the minimal intervention by means of local materials and traditional finishings, as well as reause of traditional objects and furnitures. The main goal is to offer guests a true experience of the local rural lifestyle, in line with the modest history of the building.
3702 Lichttoren Eindhoven, Netherlands The Lichttoren (Light tower) is a former factory building in Eindhoven. It has a heptagonal, white tower, designed in the functionalist style. From 1911 the Light Tower was used as a factory for Philips, a light bulb manufacturing company in Eindhoven. Later, the headquarters of the Philips light division were established in the building. The building is a national monument. In 2009 it has been converted into a living, working and leisure complex. Now it houses residential penthouses / lofts, offices, hotel, commercial spaces and a restaurant. Homes were called "lofts" - a new concept for the Netherlands at that time. This meant that users did not buy or rent a home, but rather one or more "spatial modules". The concrete skeleton of the Light Tower was the basis, this "divided" the building into modules of 7.20 long by 7.20 wide by 4.40 meters high.