Kämpegatan 16 Transforming a building in a state of uncertainty
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Examensarbete för masterexamen
Master's Thesis
Master's Thesis
Program
Architecture and planning beyond sustainability (MPDSD), MSc
Publicerad
2023
Författare
Bruns , Paula Sophia
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The population living in cities is estimated to rise
significantly in the coming years, which makes the need
for developing sustainable and resilient cities more and
more urgent. Consequently, the transformation and
adaptive reuse of existing buildings becomes increasingly
important with regard to sustainable urban development.
Buildings make up a significant amount of the built
environment. Making use of existing, empty or
inefficiently used buildings can provide a strategy to
avoid further urban sprawl and the related claiming of
more land. It simultaneously contributes to circularity
and saving resources. Buildings have been and are
presently designed as mono-functional objects, not able
to react to changes. Therefore, buildings are at risk of
facing redundancy and possibly considerable repeated
refurbishment or untimely demolition.
Existing buildings are even more so threatened by
demolition when geographically located within city centers
or otherwise strategically. In addition, these structures
are also strongly affected by ongoing development in
their surroundings, endangering their existence. Further,
demolition in particular concerns buildings which are not
protected through local policies and do not fall under
specific protection regulations.
Through a site and context analysis as well as thorough
literature research, appropriate transformation strategies
and suitable solutions for the transformation and reuse of
a former storage building were developed.
The building finds itself in the dichotomy between
significant future urban development as well as being
located in a building block with several buildings bearing
protection markings. However, the former storage
building at Kämpegatan 16 does not fall under specific
protection regulations.
The purpose of this thesis is to investigate potential
transformation strategies which contribute to the
building’s use in the future and prolonging its life cycle,
taking into account the heritage surrounding the building
and the impact of future development.
With that, the thesis aims at questioning current
procedures within urban planning with regard to the
existing built environment and its impact on it. The
outcome of the thesis is a proposal for the implementation
of a mixed-use program onto the former storage building
and the structural transformation.
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Transformation, Adaptive reuse, Building resilience