Investigation on the Building Remains of Baiyun Chemical Plant in Wuhai City and Value Analysis about the Integration Protection

Abstract

With the industrial structure adjustment and the surrounding natural resources depletion in Wuhai, the industrial regions are facing the issues about how to transform and develop. The industrial heritage being the material carrier of industrial civilization, protecting the industrial heritage is conducive to preserving the continuity of the material space environment and history of the city, and preserving people’s sense of identify and belonging to the culture of the place. The protections about Baiyun Chemicals, the typical regional industrial heritage in Wuhai, not only reflected the characteristic of the single construction, and more important focused on the portfolio of the group construction, are representing and expressing industrial culture and place spirit, and are worthy of careful analysing and elaborating. Therefore, it is necessary to effective screen the building part and non - building part of the industrial heritage, and to discuss the way of effective protection and reuse based on the screening results.