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Article
Transforming Strijp S: From Philips’ Industrial Site to New Residential and Creative Area
Author(s)
Dimitra Babalis1 and Irene Curulli2
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DOI:10.17265/1934-7359/2016.07.005
Affiliation(s)
1. Department of Architecture, University of Florence, Florence 50132, Italy
2. Department of the Built Environment, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven 5600 MB, the Netherlands
ABSTRACT
In the contemporary city,
the transformation of abandoned industrial landscapes offers great potential
for experimentation and in creating new urban environments. Industrial heritage
plays an essential role in this respect and it goes beyond its strong cultural
and symbolic value. In fact, industrial-cultural heritage is able to re-enact
people’s capability to maintain the culture of the past while looking forward
with appropriate and innovative design solutions. This paper focuses on the
design of regeneration of the former Philips’ electronic industrial area named
Strijp S in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. The master plan is pioneer in
experimental rules on development areas due to the Crisis and Recovery Act
(2010), a new Dutch law in response to development and economical crisis. The
authors identify four criteria of analysis in order to show the complexity of
this urban transformation and assess the results of this work-in-progress transformation.
Moreover, it will discuss the challenges for industrial architecture/heritage
when incorporating different objectives of redevelopment and to which extent
the local dynamics are linked to the design of reuse. As conclusion, the paper
will debate on the comprehensive urban framework, which puts forward
sustainable design criteria, sets out principles in temporary and long-term
reuse of the old buildings, and on their implication in terms of urban quality
of indoor and outdoor spaces.
KEYWORDS
Urban transformation, industrial heritage, heritage conservation and reuse, creative industry.
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