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Conclusion
CONCLUSION
In all the precedents studied so far, it can be seen that the effort required to bring a successful adaptive reuse about - whether from a government body, a private owner, or a grassroots coalition - this regeneration requires vision. It requires dedication to the completion of such a cause.
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As architects, engineers, developers and individuals with agency, in a community with flaws - as any community is - if we know there are ways to improve some of these flaws, if we know of methods and strategies that could improve life for hundreds of people; that, in their own way, could lead to a better district, region, city and country; that open up possibilities of an altered reality where equity, health, economical thriving, environmental accommodation, and user satisfaction are all realized - if we know all these, then it is our responsibility to follow these methods, these strategies until this better, improved reality is truly realized. It is our responsibility to spread this positive effect, instead of looking the other way.
...reuse is a very effective way of reaching poetic complexity. Perfection is usually quite boring. The most interesting buildings bear the marks of different eras and design ideologies.
Rick ten Doeschate
… [in] transforming and renovating buildings to make them more efficient, more beautiful and sustainable, [we are] making them favorable to the welfare of the community that inhabits them.
Alejandro Hermida
Cities need old buildings so badly it is probably impossible for vigorous streets and districts to grow without them…. for really new ideas of any kind—no matter how ultimately profitable or otherwise successful some of them might prove to be—there is no leeway for such chancy trial, error and experimentation in the high-overhead economy of new construction. Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.
Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
