Methodology for the identification of potential functions in the reuse of vacant industrial heritage buildings: case study: the industries along the Almendares River, Havana=Méthodologie pour l'identification des fonctions potentielles dans la réutilisation des bâtiments vacants du patrimoine industriel: etude de cas: les industries le long de la rivière Almendares, La Havane.

The problematic of the reuse of vacant industrial building is a topic relevant for the current society. It lays its regard over the vacant industrial heritage building looking for a possibility of recuperation or repurpose of their spaces. Though the number of examples overtakes the capacity of the decision markers. This together with a lack of tools for the definition of new function leave the spaces to interventions that no always correspond with the context and the object. Nevertheless, there is a large path already done in term of reuse of vacant industrial buildings. Some authors characterize this an a culture of the exploitation. This scenario is also present in Havana, Cuba. There is a vast representation of vacant industrial heritage buildings not correct exploited according their capacities. In this frame, the thesis is supported on the determination of a methodology for the identification of potential uses for the vacant industrial heritage building, taking as a relevant resource, the experience gained in the world in term of reuse that could be applied to the case of the industrial building along the Almendares River. The research is divided in three chapters, the first concerning to the identification of the variables that model the problematic, the second focus in the learning by the experience and the design of the methodology and the third in the application of this methodology to the study case of the vacant industrial heritage buildings along the Almendares River of Havana. The application to the study case serves from the test of pertinence of the methodology. The thesis has as result the Methodology for identification of potential use for vacant industrial heritage building, a database of experience of reuse and a proposal of potential use to be applied in the case of the Almendares River