| The structure of global economy changed after the seventies of the last century. With the growth of the tertiary industry, the economic focus shifted from manufacturing to services. A large number of industrial enterprises moved their infrastructures away from the downtown with a lot of idle and abandoned old factory building left. Those old industrial buildings had to be dismantled and new ones would be built. With enhanced awareness of historical and environmental protection and humanist thought, people gradually realized that there was a great potential in the development of those old factory building. How to use the land efficiently, sustain the historical features and create new economic values had become a serious problem.The transformation and reuse of waste factory buildings is a permanent topic. The human society has entered the information age. Creative industries are rising sharply and have become the leading force driving the economic growth. That brings great opportunities to the transformation and reuse of the waste factory buildings. Creative designs give those waste buildings new lives. The original functions have been lost. But new functions can be given to those buildings. There will be new relationship between those buildings and the social life. The creative industrial parks are a very telling example. Based on the above idea, this thesis discussed how to reuse the functions of waste old factory building, combine them with the creative industries, and transform them into the pluralistic creative industrial parks.The thesis was based on literature research and field investigation. In the beginning, it summarized the motives of the transformation and reuse of waste old factory building. Then it analyzed the process from waste old factory building to the creative industrial parks. The emphasis was the design contents and methods of the transformation to the creative industrial parks. That was analyzed and illustrated with specific examples. In the end, several questions were raised about the development of the creative industrial parks and their future prospect. |
