StreetDome by CEBRA

"StreetDome is a vast and unique urban playground for unorganized sports and street culture on Haderslev’s harbor front in southern Denmark. StreetDome’s overall ambition is to set new standards for urban arenas for unorganized sports. StreetDome is an open playground and social meeting place for different ages, skill levels, and cultures — an undulating urban landscape for activity and recreation including a 15,000-square-foot skate park, facilities street basketball, Parkour, boulder climbing, canoe polo, etc."

under construction

artist's interpretation

more at Architizer,

Françoise Bollack's 5 Adaptive Reuse Strategies

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