Resilience Factories. An Opportunity for Industrial Heritage: La Trinidad Case Study

Abstract

The objective of this work is to rethink the strategy for the revitalization of industrial heritage buildings with the scope of transform them into resilience sources and enhance the architectural experience. We focus in La Trinidad Glass Factory in Seville, to be able to check the social and human environment of a greater interest to develop an integral approach to resilience. Our framework includes the fields of heritage and sustainable behavior of buildings, they had been developed works focused on energy and inner comfort We propose an approach to industrial heritage reuse from resilience, performance of buildings and social interaction. Here, we broaden to the demands of a vision needed for facing the challenges in the foreseeable future. The great importance of re-inhabiting the industrial heritage takes place in a society that needs mechanisms to face mutations that may be looming on all orders. Fortunately, these two statements resonate since industrial retrofitting could become a key strategy for sustainability. This work applies concepts of ecological design and tools to propose a more integrated environment for architectural heritage. The methodology is developed as a framework, which includes multiple design tools and data to be analyzed. Some key workflows will be exemplified by the chosen case. Re-living industrial heritage is an opportunity to rebuild the city fabric, making it a focus of resilience for the city. This requires an approach with multiple objectives and tools as exemplified by the proposed case. Since the new challenges need a greater degree of strength, which will be the result of that network of qualities working in synergy.