The Westbeth Artist Community, the first meeting between architecture and loft living, fifty years after its ideation, continues to be an outstanding example rarely exceeded in terms of innovation and architectural research in the field of reuse of industrial heritage for residential purposes. The article, through the analysis of floor plans, photos and autor's graphic reworks, aims to investigate the ingenious strategy of inclusion of residential uses and working ones, the principles and the issues with which the architect, Richard Meier, had to figure out to define a new model of living together. Conclusions show that the interest of this project goes far beyond the economic sustainability. The values of the intervention can be found in t...
The paper is a part of a comprehensive research aimed at operationalizing HUL approach and experimen...
The architectural and urban heritage, inherited from the Modern Movement and its theories, requires ...
In the last few years, Cultural Heritage has gradually moved from being an inactive and onerous inhe...
Factories of Shared Living. Designing the Renewal of Housing. The epochal change the world is und...
Although the scenario is strongly heterogeneous, at times even inconsistent, the issue of “sharing” ...
Today the architectural culture is dealing with the question of the habitation not just as a new urb...
New dwelling in the compact city. Projects for the district of San Salvario in Turin. This research...
The paper presents an innovative approach to providing housing for transitory populations, starting ...
Abandoned buildings in our cities today represent a great problem: these have lost stable functions,...
The rediscovery of the cultural value of the project, the creation of new imaginaries in marginal pl...
Living and working in a disused factory In collective imagination, living and working inside a facto...
The team, since the early stages of the project, has worked with the will to seize, in collaboration...
Regeneration is a complex process that increases the life quality of the city by redefining urban en...
The community today is characterized by multiple diversity within it, each individual is spokesperso...
The theme of the reuse of buildings has become nowadays a particularly significant aspect for the de...
The paper is a part of a comprehensive research aimed at operationalizing HUL approach and experimen...
The architectural and urban heritage, inherited from the Modern Movement and its theories, requires ...
In the last few years, Cultural Heritage has gradually moved from being an inactive and onerous inhe...
Factories of Shared Living. Designing the Renewal of Housing. The epochal change the world is und...
Although the scenario is strongly heterogeneous, at times even inconsistent, the issue of “sharing” ...
Today the architectural culture is dealing with the question of the habitation not just as a new urb...
New dwelling in the compact city. Projects for the district of San Salvario in Turin. This research...
The paper presents an innovative approach to providing housing for transitory populations, starting ...
Abandoned buildings in our cities today represent a great problem: these have lost stable functions,...
The rediscovery of the cultural value of the project, the creation of new imaginaries in marginal pl...
Living and working in a disused factory In collective imagination, living and working inside a facto...
The team, since the early stages of the project, has worked with the will to seize, in collaboration...
Regeneration is a complex process that increases the life quality of the city by redefining urban en...
The community today is characterized by multiple diversity within it, each individual is spokesperso...
The theme of the reuse of buildings has become nowadays a particularly significant aspect for the de...
The paper is a part of a comprehensive research aimed at operationalizing HUL approach and experimen...
The architectural and urban heritage, inherited from the Modern Movement and its theories, requires ...
In the last few years, Cultural Heritage has gradually moved from being an inactive and onerous inhe...