Saez Ujaque, D; Fuertes Perez, P; Garcia Almirall, M P and de Balanzó Joue, R (2022) Embedded resilience in the built stock. Lessons from socio-spatial interpretation. The case of canfugarolas (mataro-barcelona). Building Research & Information, 50(3), pp. 351-368. ISSN 0961-3218
Abstract
The concept of resilience remains vague as it pertains to the buildings' scale and the architectural dimension, particularly when dealing with the recovery and reuse of former industrial premises. This study advocates for socio-ecological (bounding-forward) resilience and the use of Panarchy heuristics to analyze the embedded resilience of building stock. This research is based on a case study of CanFugarolas, in Mataró (Barcelona), a former workshop converted into a socio-cultural centre. Here, the building becomes a repository for latent urban dynamism, where spatial transformation is the mechanism by which embedded resilience is released in the form of social dynamism. Adaptive spatial capability (potential) translates into social dynamism (performance) because of socio-spatial interactions. The quantitative and qualitative analysis of the spatial and social parallel evolution of the case study reveals that (i) a strong correlation exists between spatial transformation and social participation; (ii) spatio-functional tactics and spatial adaptive capabilities are social and formal complementary mechanisms for spatial appropriation during social progression; (iii) spatial diversification and hierarchization are evidence of spatial specialization, resulting from said socio-spatial interactions. Eventually, (iv) indications of thresholds appear in the form of spatial over-fragmentation and hyper-specialization, denoting spatial exhaustion and embedded resilience limitations.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | brownfield’s recovery; built stock; embedded urban resilience; self-organization; spatial adaptability; urban regeneration |
| Index terms: | evolution, qualitative analysis, evidence, adaptability, self-organization, urban regeneration, urban resilience, specialization, fragmentation, building stock, diversification, dimension, interaction, recovery, workshop, heuristic, case study, cultural centre, transformation |
| Subjects: | sustainability and resilience, operations management, environmental science, health monitoring assessment and metrics, construction type, risk assessment, evaluation and assessment methods, data collection methods, user focus, research design and methodology, business, market analysis, asset management, sociology, behavioral psychology, post-disaster and reconstruction |
| Topics: | Organizational Design, Design Practice, Urban Studies, Risk Management, Construction Technology, Sustainability, Business Strategy, Health and Safety, Project Management, Research Practice |
| Descriptive scope: | 5 PCTEA |
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