Streetmekka Viborg: Breathing New Life into Abandoned Industrial Buildings

Low Density, Project, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms

Active Public Spaces, Adaptive reuse, Community, Concrete, Denmark, Glazed façade, Heritage, Industrial context, Playground, Post-industrial Landscape, Project, Reprogramming, Steel, Street Culture, Urban landscape, Urban Legacy, Viborg

Location: Viborg, Denmark
Area: 3.170 m2 + 2.000 m2 landscape
Year: 2018
Photography: Rasmus Hjortshøj - COAST

The existing building originally served as a windmill factory and is a typical example of one of the many mass-produced warehouse or factory buildings from the late 1960s and 70s found in almost every suburban industrial zone in the western world. Typically constructed from prefabricated concrete panels or corrugated steel, these industrial leftovers are perceived as having little or negligible historic, cultural and architectural value.