reprogramming study

reprogramming is about bringing future protential into present buildings,spaces and pieces of infrastractures,repurposed to serve a new function.
I did a little research about reprogramming the city

1.reprogrmming buildings

Renew Newcastle has been established to find short and medium term uses for buildings in Newcastle’s CBD that are currently vacant, disused, or awaiting redevelopment.It aims to find artists, cultural projects and community groups to use and maintain these buildings until they become commercially viable or are redeveloped. Renew Newcastle is not set up to manage long term uses, own properties or permanently develop sites but to generate activity in buildings until that future long term activity happens.

big box reuse
As superstores abandon buildings in order to move into bigger stores, what will become of the walls that they leave behind? It is within the answer to this question that we are seeing the resourcefulness and creativity of communities dealing with a challenge that isemerging all over the USA: the empty big box store. Through travel, the study of community, and exploration of the urban landscape, Julia  Christensenis researching the way people build their towns, creating the contextfortheir own lives. 

 As Julia Christensen documented in her 2008 book Big Box Reuse, a largely grassroots resourcefulness around the country saw the opportunity to meet different needs with the abandoned structures: Wal-Marts were reborn as churches, empty Home Depots became guitar stores and elementary schools, and a K-Mart found new life as the Spam Museum.

 

 2.reprogramming spaces

Folly for a Flyover
a structure of sloping seats to create a public venue for films and concerts uder a fly over where used to be a forgotten corner, complete with a cafe to provide a local meeting place for coffee and boat rides on the neighboring waterway. Using reclaimed materials that, in turn, are disassembled and reused at the end of its run, the temporary structure offers a window into the potential that such normally wasted space holds in the life of the city.

Plaza Móvil Streetpark
Manu Rapoport of Argentina’s Designo Patagonia sees streets as platforms for play and gathering during their off-hours. To activate the temporarily empty spaces, he created “Plaza Móvil Street Park”
Plaza Móvil is a mobile “kit” containing equipment, games and street furniture to turn any street into a temporary alternative park. Rapoport created Plaza Móvil to act as both a method for animating empty spaces and as an advocacy tool for convincing local authorities to briefly close streets for the benefit of local communities. 

 3.reprogramming infrastructures

High line park ——survival of the old rail track

The elevated 1930s railroad track in New York City has been transformed into an innovative and contemporary public park.

crane track
Kraanspoor three-story office building is built on top of the abandoned crane structure. With a name literally meaning “crane track,” Kraanspoor’s once-derelict foundation stretches 885 feet across the waterway of the Ij River, the city’s main shipping route leading to the sea.

City Swings
21 musical swings installed in downtown Montreal. Each one triggering different notes when in swinging to create a changing soundscape.