Urban Healers

Approach on finding a cure solution to revitalize reuse or refurbish “left-over” areas in Tirana city has to do with the creation of programmatic self-sufficient systems. A self-sufficient system is an independent system consisting in the coexistence and correlation of two types of interventions permanent and temporary architecture that try to complement each other in a process hereinafter referred to as the ‘urban healers’. ‘Healing’ is used as a term to represent a process of endured revitalization not only concerning structural revitalization but most of all ensuring a continuous frequency of the area. Although it recognized four different groups of leftover areas such as: Urban Central Plazas; Vacant Buildings; Neighborhood’s inner courtyards; and Ex-Industrial Areas; this research will focus on Ex-industrial areas commonly referred to as ‘brownfield’ with proposed project being Culture through Art as means of revitalization.