Abstract
With rapid economic development and restructuring, the number of old or obsolete buildings is growing in large cities. Construction practice has actively focused in recent decades on the regeneration of brownfield areas and creating opportunities for their cost-effective and sustainable reuse. Some of the buildings could be identified as-built industrial heritage whose purpose could be modified and used differently. Adaptive reuse can make a major contribution to sustainable development by reducing construction waste and saving natural resources. In the reuse management process, the problem is how to deal with multiple criteria that are imposed as factors in assessing the reuse of a building. Using the adjusted fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (FAHP), we explore the potential for the adaptation and new use of industrial buildings in the former area of Electronic Industry Nis (EI Nis) in Serbia. The standard FAHP, in which we determine the weights of each sub-criterion based on the expert’s evaluation, we adjusted for use when no pairwise comparison of existing alternatives was available. Multiple criteria evaluation was performed by applying many criteria and sub-criteria, taking into account the different spatial and physical performance of buildings, as well as their locational indicators. A case study is used to demonstrate the application of the method and show its effectiveness.
Highlights
A variety of reasons led to the abandonment of buildings, but the descent of the manufacturing process and increase in demand for the service sector are among the significant ones
Using the adjusted fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (FAHP), we explore the potential for the adaptation and new use of industrial buildings in the former area of Electronic
In the process of planning the selection of buildings within industrial brownfields, suitable for adaptive reuse, models of multi-criteria analysis have been recognized as a suitable tool to facilitate optimal decision making
Summary
A variety of reasons led to the abandonment of buildings, but the descent of the manufacturing process and increase in demand for the service sector are among the significant ones. These buildings can be visual landmarks of the modern environment and have architectural or historical value suitable for attracting tourists and investment, which enhances social and economic benefits and enables the recognition of the city. Technical, constructive, and aesthetic requirements of new uses, a set of measures and activities have been needed to transform the existing architectural structure [1]. Industrial facilities were primarily created to place large machines jointly with manufacturing equipment that occupy significant spatial capacity which, together with constructional characteristics, has an Mathematics 2020, 8, 1697; doi:10.3390/math8101697 www.mdpi.com/journal/mathematics
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