ABSTRACT
Reuse in architecture, such as Adaptive Reuse, is mainly focused on the reuse of the existing built fabric, such as buildings and the spaces they inhabit through forms of intervention and transformation. Part of my criticism of the Green Agenda is that it is often based on expensive materials, high-tech gadgets, and apps that poorer communities cannot afford or access. The best way of engaging with poor communities is by looking at very doable, low-tech interventions that can be incorporated into the communities. The process needs active citizens, which demands participation, knowledge, and the development of a transparent community. Only such an active and multi-societal structure is able to approach a municipality for resources, such as existing infrastructure that is currently unused, abused, or decaying. In the end, the project became an exemplary case for the community, challenging the status quo of traditional brick-and-mortar buildings.
