Covered Market and Exhibition Area: Regenerating the Urban Fabric

Dominique Coulon & Associés, Middle Density, Project, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms

Adaptive reuse, Architecture, Architecture&art, Built environment, Exhibition, France, Heritage, Market, Multifunctional building, Power of materiality, Project, Public Space, Refitting Places, Refurbishment, Scenography, Schiltigheim, Strasbourg, Territorial Approach, Urban fabric, Vernacular

Photography: Eugeni Pons and David Romero-Uzeda

Schiltigheim is the third largest town in the Bas-Rhin département (eastern France) in terms of population and the most densely populated town in the Strasbourg metropolis. It developed in the 19th century, centred on brewing and related industrial activities. These activities declined in the late 20th century, leaving much industrial land abandoned and unused. The rehabilitation of the butchers’ cooperative is part of a process initiated by the municipality with the aim of regenerating the town’s urban fabric.