- ReUso 2026 - New heritage and future strategies. Perspectives on conservation and promotion
- A cura di Alessandro Scarnato, Marisa García Vergara, Ángeles Layuno Rosas
Inhabiting the Industrial Shed: Emergent Domesticity and the Aesthetics of the Common in Blasón / BURR, Madrid
- Francisco Felipe Muñoz Carabias
- Jose Manuel Alvarez Barrena
- © 2026 Author(s) |
- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-1113-0.88
This paper analyses Blasón / BURR, in Madrid, as an industrial reuse operation in which dwelling is not imposed on the former shed but emerges from its existing conditions: volume, roof, courtyards, structure, and productive memory. Beyond understanding change of use as a merely functional replacement, the case allows us to consider an emergent domesticity capable of inhabiting what is inherited without neutralising it. From the perspective of an aesthetics of the common and the ordinary, Blasón shows that minor industrial heritage can be preserved through new ways of living, where adaptation does not mean erasure but learning to coexist with the spatial resistance of the existing.
- Keywords:
- Industrial reuse,
- Emergent domesticity,
- Ordinary aesthetics,
- Industrial Heritage,
- Adaptive reuse,
Francisco Felipe Muñoz Carabias
University of Alcalá, Spain - ORCID: 0000-0001-5628-0548
University of Alcalá, Spain - ORCID: 0009-0005-3993-1333
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Titolo del capitolo
Inhabiting the Industrial Shed: Emergent Domesticity and the Aesthetics of the Common in Blasón / BURR, Madrid
Autori
Francisco Felipe Muñoz Carabias, Jose Manuel Alvarez Barrena
Lingua
Inglese
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-1113-0.88
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Anno di pubblicazione
2026
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© 2026 Author(s)
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ReUso 2026 - New heritage and future strategies. Perspectives on conservation and promotion
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14th International Congress Barcelona-Girona, 4-7 November
Curatori
Alessandro Scarnato, Marisa García Vergara, Ángeles Layuno Rosas
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2026
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© 2026 Author(s)
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Firenze University Press
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10.36253/979-12-215-1113-0
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