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The regeneration concept in a disused or misused property begins by resuscitating the space or “restoring the soul” to the property with a cultural festival, event or activity (in decreasing order of complexity, time & space) in its actual state of abandonment or misuse, without transforming but minimally intervening it. The surroundings are used as inspiration, reclaiming spaces as platforms for art, debate, and knowledge exchange. 

At a later stage, the property is converted into its final use by “restoring the body” to it.  The conversion within this concept recovers the property respecting its architecture, its environment and its origins, telling its history closely linked to the neighbourhood. This adds value not only to the property itself, but also to the neighbourhood where it belongs to, by being its pride and the starting point for an improvement in the block, district, city, etc. as the scale enlarge

In short, the regeneration first returns the property’s soul through the cultural expression, exposing it by putting it in the spot-light. Only then the property’s body is recovered with the conversion and, finally, its character & identity are injected through the end use project. That is, the space is regenerated in its entirety: a high quality property telling its own story intimately linked to the surrounding neighbourhood, becomes the contagious starting point for an improvement in the block, neighbourhood, district, city, region… and so forth.