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Readjustment of the old: New Reuses for Historical building (investigating the best role for an architectural heritage)

Jihad Yassir Yousouf Hussein Ahmed Alian

Abstract


This paper aims to study and discuss the best way to adapt an architectural heritage within a changeable architecture metaphor of the urban fabric. the first section of the study investigate the differentiation between what considered as an architectural heritage and try to classify them then moving to find out the best way to recycle such a legacy according to both the building and city needs. The research methodology is a qualitative method to get an advance theoretical input through emerging different approaches to protect architectural heritage. The research concludes that sometimes it is better to let the built heritage live and die with its stories and only feed this nostalgia from our imagination and believes with amount of uncertainty. For not to destroy the reality and identity of the history.


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