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.