Adaptive Reuse is the use of buildings and materials for purposes other than originally intended. Although adaptive reuse has a long tradition in arts and crafts, more recently environmental awareness and design for sustainability have revitalized the role of a trash-to- treasures approach, providing a wide array of contemporary urban design which is an important part of today's city sustainability. In this session, we will explore the roles of adaptive reuse in the urban environment, focusing on repurposed objects (also) found in urban public spaces in order to (re)define the city.

This presentation is the second of a four-webinar series that intends to provide practical input to current urban challenges. In this series, 16 architects from Baltimore and Rotterdam (The Netherlands), moderated by four international mediators, will, together with the audience, ask and answer the question, “How do architects design spaces for people?”. Each of the four roundtables will dynamically explore designs that value infrastructures, cities, public spaces, communities, and individuals.

1.0 AIA LU|HSW approved

Special thanks to our webinar sponsors:

Penza Bailey Architects

BCT Design Group

Vectorworks

Present Company

Quinn Evans

Two Point Studio

Gary A. Bowden FAIA, Architect Emeritus

brennan+company architects

CallisonRTKL

Jerome C. Gray Architect

Unknown Studio