{"id":33652,"key":"Abandoned","title":"Abandoned","latest":{"id":1209495,"timestamp":"2025-11-28T02:29:38Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"[[File:Celles (Hérault) - Abandoned buildings 01.jpg|thumb]]\n\n''' MISSION '''\n\n''re-appropriate our built environment''\n\nCausing creative transformations of abandoned buildings & spaces; a systems-theory approach towards adaptive-reuse.\n\nIntroducing permaculture to abandoned spaces to net vibrant & innovative, multi-useful spaces.\n\nCompiling an intelligent strategy to revive our neglected structures; integrating radical architecture, permaculture, design, systems theory, input and output schemes, food systems, imagination, and more.\n\n=== FORWARD ===\n\n''welcome to the wild world; of the abandoned''\n\nIndustrialism has a wake; as that tide wanes away . . . relics, remains, treasures, antiques, bones . . . this wealth of reminders begins to really adorn our shared landscape.\n\nYes they are testaments to overproduction, reminders of economic boom-bust, models of what not to do, and victims of quick-bucks; but our abandoned buildings are also eastereggs, ripe for rebirth. And they deserve our attention.\n\nAs we face this modern world, and all of its challenges (as we shoulder global warming, peak everything, & environmental collapse; as we innovate a body of solutions embracing holistic systems, integrated living, permaculture, earthen building, appropriate technology, green design, sustainable cities, and all the rest) we must not overlook our abandoned buildings.\nAs failures of a dated system, they are our opportunity for a new one.\nIf we wanted an inch, they gave us a topography.\n\nPoetic & naked, breathtaking & tragic, messy & omens, addictive & grizzled, abstract & concrete, controversial; welcome to the marvelous, newold world of abandoned buildings.\n\nLike babies, we built our environment. Stacking blocks and blocks in myopic grids, gutting the complex ecosystems we are now falling in love with, dispossessing the intricate webs we are now attempting to re-connect, we built our environment.\nIt becomes clearer, and clearer, as we look around us. Our landscapes are becoming riddled in abandoned buildings; and something (a lot) needs to be done.\n\n== APPROACH ==\n\n''it's like dumpsterdiving; for buildings''\n\n''' <font color=\"teal\">Preparatory Contemplations</font> '''\n\n''' an abandoned building is already something '''\n\n* start with what you've got; even if it seems like nothing, it's something\n* an abandoned building is sleeping energy; ready for adaptation\n\n''' detectives dig '''\n\n* do your homework: dig through archives & histories; talk to the locals \t& all the nearby institutions; use the internet\n* buildings -like people- often have layers & layers of fascinating \tstories to tell; build on these unique experiences\n* consider angles of preservation: rescue & celebrate the peculiar \tcomponents & the unique features\n\n''' flow on '''\n\n* if any qualities jump out, follow them; the transformation has just as much -if not more- to do with the building than it has to do with you\n\n''' visionary trajectory '''\n\n* realize the impacts the original architects and construction crew has wrought upon you, as you attempt to revive the building\n\n\twhat could they have done to smooth your process\n\twhat shortcuts did they make which slow you down\n\n* when possible, design flexibility into the building's restoration\n\n\tknow that, some day, the building will deteriorate and ruin once more . . . embrace user-friendly functionality\n\t\tmaterial use, wiring/plumbing, & repairs\n\t\tminute installations often lead to huge headaches for everyone\n\n''' <font color=\"teal\">Initial Approach</font> '''\n\n* think nothing. just observe, listen, & get to know the building\n* sit across the street; behold the building from a nearby rooftop\n* circumnavigate the building a dozen times; then a dozen more\n* eat/sleep/sing/dance/drink tea; in as many areas as possible\n* stand in the building's very center; draw geometric lines however they appear logical; pace them each\n* stand in the building's very center; draw a spiral however it appears to uncoil; walk it slowly\n\n''' <font color=\"teal\">The Pieces of Procedure Pie</font> '''\n\n''' Disposition - '(who is this building)' '''\n\n\tthe building's previous life(s) & intention(s); its personality\n\t\tfood related, hotel, school, prison, theatre, etc.\n\t\tdoes its physical shape/design signify a unique usage\n\t\tthe more information regarding its history, the better\n\tinvestigate the context\n\t\t is it part of a larger network of structures/should it be?\n\t\tdoes the building have any special relationships/should it?\n\n''' Conditions - '(what is this building doing)' '''\n\n\tdiagnose the building's health; its degree of degradation\n\t\treinforcements, restoration, continued maintenance\n\tdimensions\n\t\tarea (of building & land)\n\t\t# of floors, # of walls\n\t\tis there an attic, a rooftop, a basement, a cellar . . .?\n\t\tcarrying capacity\n\n''' Setting - '(where is this building)' '''\n\n\tbioregion\n\t\tflora & fauna, climate, weather,\n\tcountry\n\t\tgovernment, squatter's rights, quirks, and particular\n\tsurroundings/vicinity\n\t\tis there a local community\n\n== DATABASES ==\n\n''resources''\n\n''' websites '''\n\n\t(im)possible living\n\n\tartificial owl\n\n\turban-travel.org\n\t\n\tweb-urbanist\n\n\tAbandonedButNotForgotten\n\n\tUrban Ghosts Media\n\n\tThe Secret Apartment in the Mall\n\n''' books '''\n\n\tninjalicious\n\n\tdunites\n\n\tBeneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas\n\n{{Page data\n| license = CC-BY-SA-3.0\n| description = Old spaces can grow new life. 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