In her book Old Buildings, New Forms, Françoise Bollack divides adaptive reuse projects into five categories, and illustrates each with a diagram (from left to right): wraps, weavings, juxtapositions, parasites, and insertions.
Insertion for instance, is exemplified by a 2004 project by FNP Architekten. A crane dropped a new shell of weather-resistant plywood inside a 200-year-old abandoned pigsty in Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. The “house within a house” is now used as an occasional showroom and meeting place.
To see examples of the other strategies see the article in ARCHITECT.
Or buy the book.
Image Credits: Monacelli Press
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