Aemulatio as a method for adaptive reuse
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Examensarbete för masterexamen
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Master's Thesis
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Changes in agricultural practices over the
past century in Sweden have rendered many
granaries, once considered status symbols,
as obsolete figures in the landscape. The
construction sector plays a significant role in the
current environmentally unsustainable resource
consumption rate. Taking care of what has already
been built is one way towards a more sustainable
practice, both for environmental and cultural
heritage reasons. Granaries hold a narrative of past
agricultural and building practices, and as they
were built to store many tons of grain, they often
have sturdy constructions which could potentially
last a long time. This thesis project explores how
vocabulary borrowed from art can guide the
process of the adaptive reuse of a disused granary
into a brewing collective.
Adaptive reuse is discussed through two
intersecting approaches; the concept of different
stages of copying, based on the logic of ‘aemulatio’
as described by Plevoets and Van Cleempoel in the
book “Adaptive Reuse of the Built Heritage” (2019)
and the danish architect Nicolai Bo Andersen’s
”Arkitekturens transformation - fem metoder”
(2015). Both methods entail making alterations
through interpreting the existing, and thereby
nuances the long-standing approach of having
additions contrast with the existing.
The aim of using aemulatio as a method is not
to revisit the past, but rather to revitalize the
existing and intensify its qualities. Following the
logic of aemulatio, the transformation both blurs
the distinction between existing and new, as well
as introduces new materials and forms. Using
Andersen´s method, the granary is understood
through different perspectives; through a technical,
historical and experiential lens. The alterations are
examined in different scales through abstracting
the existing to digital models, copies, from the
granary´s silhouette in the landscape, to portraying
details.
The result is not a definitive answer to how the
granary should best be transformed but rather
an exploration of a process. Within this thesis,
adaptive reuse is explored in a rural setting, but
aims to describe a method which could be further
applicable.
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Adaptive Reuse, Aemulatio, Copy