Atlas Reuse. Tools for the architectural reuse in Barcelona

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https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.2022196939

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Barcelona, atlas, inventory, database, adaptive reuse, building typology, urban planning, GIS tools

Abstract

The Atlas of architectural reuse deals with the study of buildings that have changed use over time in Barcelona, ​​including activities for which they had not been designed, as well as possible architectural strategies to program these changes of use successfully in the future. This article explains the functioning of the Atlas Reuse, the methodology used, and the multiple readings on the city that it allows. It also presents new lessons derived from this research up until now. In this way, the Atlas reveals its potential as a versatile and valuable tool that offers a diagnosis of reuse in Barcelona in the present, but at the same time, allows us to extract useful strategies for planning the city of the future.

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Author Biographies

Magda Mària Serrano, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Architect (1987) and PHD in architecture (1995) from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) with the published thesis: Renaissance and religious architecture. Catalonia 1563-1621 (2001). Associate Professor and head of the PHD program of the Department of Architectural Design Projects of the UPC. She coordinates the Bachelor's and Master's courses at ETSA Vallès and ETSA Barcelona. Co-director of the HABITAR Research Group, she has worked on several competitive funded projects on the adaptive reuse of architecture and the city. Principal investigator, together with Xavier Monteys, of the R+D+I project: ‘Atlas of architectural use. Critical study of reused buildings in Barcelona', MINECO (2014-2017). She has directed courses, given lectures and participated in international conferences to present the results of this research. She has published several books and articles in relevant magazines, among others: Locus Aomenus, Goya, ACE, PPA, VLC, JOTSE or Quaderns d'Arquitectura i Urbanisme. She is founder and partner of 'metamorfosi arquitectes slp'.

Ana Isabel Santolaria Castellanos, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Architect (2013), Master in Theory and Practice of the Architectural Project (2014), PhD architect (2019) by Barcelona School of Architecture (UPC Barcelona Tech) with the thesis Casa, relato, colección. La construcción del espacio a través de los objetos. Member of the research group HABITAR. Scholarship FI-DGR (2015) for the development of the R+D+I project: ‘Atlas of architectural use. Critical study of reused buildings in Barcelona', MINECO (2014-2017). Assistant professor in ETSAB in the courses “Rehabitar, la casa y la calle” and “Escenarios Urbanos”. Researcher and assistant professor in Cátedra Blanca Madrid in ETSAM in the workshops “Materia y Espacio” and “Hormigón Concreto”. Postdoctoral researcher Margarita Salas (2022) in ETSAM. Coordinator of the architecture journal En Homigón (Cátedra Blanca Madrid). Collaboration in publications by Habitar, and other articles in architecture journals as VLC (2022), Interiors (2021), RA Revista de Arquitectura (2019) and Constelaciones (2022).

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Published

2023-02-11

How to Cite

Mària Serrano, M., & Santolaria Castellanos, A. I. (2023). Atlas Reuse. Tools for the architectural reuse in Barcelona. ZARCH. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Architecture and Urbanism, (19), 154–169. https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.2022196939

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No. 19 (2022): Form and behaviour: modelling urbanity

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