Examination of Preservation Practice By Adapating An Existing Structure To Create New Contemporary Programming For Public Spaces.

An examination and proposal for Historic Preservation is represented in this architectural design thesis.  Testing of past preservation practices are reimagined by using a multi stage process that examines, in its first step, a community.  Further steps include a participatory process which is used to create contemporary programming that creates a multi-use public space.  Contemporary programming is defined throughout this process, each step providing new types of uses.  Case studies are further used to test this process.  Historically significant buildings are studied, ones including being built in the later nineteen sixties.  Goals and outcomes include focuses on sustainable issues including: social, political, economic and formal architectural ideas.  These goals will further focus on the disinvested economic valued neighborhoods of a past industrial city, Milwaukee Wisconsin.  Three levels that my argument affects, similar to preservation include National, State and Local levels.  These are further broken down into legacy cities, community identity and walkable cities in highly cultural areas.