Canalside transformation and reuse. Masterplanning for Glasgow Branch

The industrial heritage is fully considered a phenomenon of great opportunity and complexity in terms of transformation and re-use of buildings and sites, which includes attitudes and values embedded in cultural approaches and processes that currently are taking a strong political, economic and social development. In Scotland, the industrial landscape including former buildings and areas, brownfield sites, canal infrastructures and technological networks is subject of study that requires properly to be understood for future project approaches, cultural evaluation and environmental exploration. The Plan for regeneration and re-opening of the Forth and Clyde Canal and the restoration of its locks set out the complexity of the context with solutions for restoring the old building and establishing “new rules” for the re-use of such buildings along Glasgow Branch.