Temporary use toolkit presentation at Generative commons final conference

The Generative commons research program is turning to its end. One of the objectives of the H2020 European project Generative Commons Living Lab has been the realisation of the four toolkits. As project partner and based on our experience, my contribution has been the design of the Temporary Use Toolkit.

«The toolkit is based on the observation of the current city planning which presents an inherent dyschrony between the Urban Planning and the urban transformation processes, generating a wide variety of unresolved issues, as shown by the many urban voids producing scars in the urban fabric. For this instance, as architects, we have perceived the necessity of designing new tools to allow more dynamic answers to the meanwhile. The Generative commons research has provided  the opportunity of a common research focused on  the resolution of these problems. By designing  a “temporary re-use toolkit as part of a set of tools established by the program, we have focused in an exhaustive way those specific aspects related  to the space and its benefic effects of urban regeneration on urban surroundings. The consideration of temporary use involves a conversation about the need to privilege an urban ecology within cities, where resources are optimised by introducing abandoned spaces into renewed life cycles. Reusing abandoned buildings – of reconstructing and renaturalising instead of constructing and urbanising – is no longer just an option, but a necessity.«
The temporary use toolkit (TUT) will facilitate the creation of flexible dynamics for both public administration and citizens that will allow activating mechanisms to reincorporate disused spaces into a new useful life cycle.

GOALS
To this end, the following goals have been established:
• Provide Methodologies and Techniques
The objective of the TUT is to establish a methodology that offers a global vision for necessary processes for the temporary reuse of abandoned buildings. The toolkit will specifically develop those aspects related to abandoned spaces by assessing the different parameters that allow for their reactivation.
• Define processes and phases related to the space reactivation.
The goal is to develop specifically those processes related to space and those circumstances necessary to assess the different parameters that allow for analysing their viability for adaptive reuse and implementation.
• Facilitate the ordering of case studies that can stage the processes addressed.
• Promote Offices of Temporary Uses (OTUs)
OTUs will manage all procedures facilitating the creation of flexible dynamics between public administration and citizens to allow for activating mechanisms to reincorporate disused spaces into a new useful life cycle.

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Temporary Use Toolkit for empty spaces reuse · Vienna University of Applied Arts

The Temporary Use Toolkit developed by Patrizia Di Monte, the gE.Co living lab project partner, will be presented at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. 

The “temporary re-use toolkit is part of a set of tools established by the Generative Commons program, focusing in an exhaustive way on those specific processes of the space, creating a sequence of analysis of factors that allow assessing all those aspects (urban, legal, constructive, environmental, sustainability, economic, etc.) that condition the immersion of #emptybuildings in a new life cycle, #reprogramming the built environment with new uses and a new cycle of life of existing buildings.

Objectives

The objectives of the T.U.T. are the following:

-Facilitate, both to Public Administrations and to citizens, flexible dynamics that will allow the activation of mechanisms to reincorporate disused spaces in a cycle of new useful life.
– Establish a methodology that allows to have a global vision of all those processes necessary for the temporary reuse of abandoned buildings, mainly destined to the empowerment of the commons.
– Develop specifically those processes related to space and those circumstances necessary to assess the different parameters that allow analyzing their viability and implementation.
– Provide an existing case analysis tool.
– Facilitate the ordering of case studies that can stage the processes in order to be addressed.

Methodology

The toolkit has a double ambition. On one hand, it shows a global vision of all those factors that intervene in a process for the reuse of abandoned buildings, from the empty space mapping process and existing citizens demand, to issues related to governance, legal frameworks or the monitoring of the management. On the other hand, it affects in a more exhaustive way those specific processes of the space, creating a sequence of analysis of factors that would allow the assessing all those aspects (normative, constructive, environmental, economic, inclusive etc.) that condition the immersion of the building in a new Lifecycle.
For this instance the methodology is based on the temporal sequence of the processes, divided into 6 steps: Offer, Demand, Assigment, Financing, Implementation and Assesment. Despite its global nature, the methodology allows to each section to be applied independently.