Basis for refecting on the heritage dimension of singular industrial spots

Abstract

The recovering and integration of industrial heritage in our environment and cities is a necessary process supported by many different good reasons. The most evident one is the opportunity of using existing structures, with considerable savings compared with a new building (Ayuntamiento de Madrid, 2010). But this wouldn’t be enough reason in many cases, if one counts the adaptation issues. In fact, the conservation of these structures is often a drawback. Its removal allows you to start from scratch in many ways, with the advantages that it implies. Other questions then appear, which advise the safeguarding of this heritage. As in virtually any case of understanding, management and integration of heritage, the meaning it holds for collective memory is the decisive key to its recovery.