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.