Equipamientos socioculturales y sistemas arquitectónicos resilientes: la Cable Factory y Can Batlló = Sociocultural Facilities and Resilient Architectural Systems: The Cable Factory and Can Batlló
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Resilience in the field of spatial planning contributes to the sustainable development of socio-spatial systems and deals with the unpredictable effects of climate change in urban areas. This article discusses resilient architecture by comparing two case studies: the former industrial complexes transformed into sociocultural facilities of the Cable Factory in Helsinki and Can Batlló in Barcelona. Through a grounded theory methodology, this research combines three inductive methods to collect data: semi-structured interviews, observational research, and secondary research. The aim of this work is to define properties and characteristics that promote the creation of a conceptual framework in resilient architecture from an evolutionary resilience approach and, thus, contribute to the projection of resilient cities. Thanks to the planning of spatial indeterminacy, the resilient properties of persistence, adaptation and transformation are identified in the architectural systems of both cases. The results show 16 resilient characteristics that are integrated in the spatial, social and temporal dimensions. Two categories of indeterminate space are also distinguished: raw space at the Cable Factory and freespace at Can Batlló. It is concluded that indeterminate spaces offer freedom of appropriation and confront obsolescence and change of use through evolvability and flexibility