Interventions and Adaptive Reuse: Difficult Memories

Description

Building in existing fabric as interior architecture
Surveying international examples of memory place design

Design interventions for the reuse of existing structures must face the question of the past and the extent to which it should be included in a new design. This is the point of departure of Int | AR, a yearly publication on current issues in international adaptive reuse and interior architecture. Departing from a traditional limited understand of interior design as geared to decoration and finishing, Int | AR looks at interior architecture as one of the professions that shape our built environment.
The question about the presence of the past is particularly acute in buildings with a difficult history that are to become memorial places. From the Museum of Genocide Crimes in Cambodia via jail conversions in the USA to the revival of a defunct industrial port in Spain involving retired oil tankers, the project portraits and reflective essays discuss dealing with trauma, narration and recollection in adaptive reuse projects.
Together with the title „Difficult Places“ in landscape design, also published by Birkhäuser in the Fall 2013 program, this publication clearly demonstrates that memorial places are no longer an exclusive domain of architectural design.

CONTENTS

• EDITORIAL
• Museography for Traumatic Memories Re-enacting the Past / Michela Bassanelli & Gennaro Postiglione
• Manifesto for A Post-Industrial City / Luis Sacristán Murga
• Emerging from an insalubrious past – Tour Bois-le-Prêtre / Samantha Rose
• Life of a Shell -and the collective memory of a city / Rafael Luna
• Comatose and Ricorso -Reawakening the Covenant Church / Adriana Ross
• Topography of trauma -An Archive, Belice Valley, Sicily / Laura Cantarella & Lucia Giuliano
• Anterior spaces at s.21 -Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocide Crimes / Barbara Stehle
• A Cycle of Frescoes -a narration of mental illness / Tiziano Aglieri Rinella
• Views and Voices -ON MEMORY, MEMORIALS AND slavery / Julian Bonder & Krzysztof Wodiczko, Anthony Bogues
• Preventing Amnesia -Negation and Reconciliation in jail conversion / Melissa Stickl
• The Remembrance of Times Past -Interview with Sergio Sebastián / Liliane Wong
• Croydon’s tower -Reconciling old traumas and new hopes / Robert Schmidt III, Dan Sage, James Pinder, Charles Holland & Simon Austin
• Malleable Remembrance -and the Re-consolidation of Fragments / Victor Serrano
• Memory And Revitalization -Of An Historic Ruin, Sant Pere De Corbera Church / Mariana Esponda
• Memento Mori -and the primacy of recollection in architectural meaning / Jodi Lynn La Coe
• TRANSCENDING TIME -La Fabrique / Carole Aizenstark

130 pages / 21,5 x 28 cm / English