1. Adaptive reuse of built heritage
How to ensure quality in EU-funded heritage and architectural projects?
Adaptive reuse of built heritage
Hughes Becquart, DG Education and Culture

2. Towards a legacy of the Year Key themes
Innovation
Cherishing heritage: developing quality standards for interventions on cultural heritage
Heritage at risk: fighting against illicit trade in cultural goods and managing risks for cultural heritage
Shared heritage: cultural heritage belongs to us all
Heritage at school: children discovering Europe's most precious treasures and traditions
Youth for heritage: young people bringing new life to heritage
Heritage in transition: re-imagining industrial, religious, military sites and landscapes
Tourism and heritage: responsible and sustainable tourism around cultural heritage
Heritage-related skills: better education and training for traditional and new professions
All for heritage: fostering social innovation and people's and communities participation
Science for heritage: research, innovation, science and technology for the benefit of heritage
Engagement
Sustainability
Protection

3. Participating stakeholders
Creative Europe networks: Europa Nostra, European Route of Industrial Heritage (ERIH), Future for Religious Heritage (FRH), Architects’ Council of Europe (ACE)
EFFORTS (European Federation of Fortified Sites); E-Faith (European Federation of Associations of Industrial and Technical Heritage)
Commission services dealing with culture, research and innovation, regional development
European Committee of Regions, Urban Group of the European Parliament; Eurocities

4. Heritage in transition
Aims at promoting good practice and smart ways
to transform Europe's industrial, religious and military heritage for new use(r)s;
to turn adaptive reuse into a driver of sustainable development for European cities and regions.
Target groups: Local/regional authorities and communities, heritage professionals and architects.
Links with Horizon 2020, URBACT and Erasmus+ projects

5. Adaptive reuse Has always existed, limited debate until modern times
Conservation versus permanent transformation/reuse to meet evolving needs
Adaptive reuse as an opportunity to keep heritage alive (new use/layer/narrative)
New, mixed, extended, intermediate or temporary uses

6. New paradigm: sustainable development
Sustainability in environmental, economic, social and cultural terms
Saturated building stock; scarce land and resources
Energy efficiency: retrofitting, embodied energy
Circular economy
Upstream model

7. Quality principles
Compatibility of use values with main heritage values
Integrated and inclusive place-based approach (Baukultur)
Reversibility (variety of future functions)

8. Quality process
Good design process: research to assess the meaning, fabric and space of existing building/place
Quality of craftsmanship and original/local materials
Participatory process: multidisciplinary team

9. @Marcel-van-der-Burg

10. For more information
EYCH initiative "Heritage in Transition":
ACE conference:
Hughes Becquart,