2.

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2.1 Similar Examples

The Zeitz MOCAA Museum in Cape Town
The grain silo in Cape Town used to be a facility that handled corn from different
regions of South Africa. It was then demolished and replaced with a new structure that
houses the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Arts Africa. The project involved the
construction of a new classification tower and multiple concrete tubes.
The grain silo, which was constructed in 1921, was once the tallest structure in Cape
Town Africa. It was later closed in 2001.

The building turned into designed through British architect, Thomas Heatherwick, Zeitz
MOCAA will house extra than 100 galleries, six studies centers, a rooftop garden, and a
hotel on the pinnacle floor. The museum overlooks Robben Island wherein former
president Nelson Mandela, turned into imprisoned. Its grand beginning is slated to take
place on 22 September 2017.

The adjoining storage annexed had 42 bolstered concrete tubes, 33m excessive and
5.5m in diameter, each containing roughly 500 lots of grain.
The development includes 6,000 sq.m of exhibition area including
eighty gallery areas, a rooftop sculpture lawn, nation of the art storage and
conservation areas, store, a bookstore, a eating place, bar, and analyzing rooms,
residence centers for a dressing up Institute, pictures, Curatorial Excellence, the
transferring picture, Per-formative exercise and artwork training. The 9,500 m2 complex
consists of nine floors and The upper part of the building is known as Silo Hotel.

It’s location in V&A Waterfront, Silo District, S Arm Rd, Waterfront, Cape Town, South
Africa.
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There are two entries to get the site:

1-main entry
2-secondary entry

2
1
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There are three entries to get the building

1-museuem entrance
2-hotel entrance
3-museum shop entrance

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2
2
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Basement plan (level 1)

Class room
Education
Atrium
Tunnels (lobby)
Entries
Vertical circulation

Ground floor plan (level 2)

Atrium
Hotel entrance
Museum lobby
Ticket desk & grand
hall
Museum shop
Entries
Performance
practice area
Storage
Loading bay
New media forum
Vertical circulation 3
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1st floor plan (level 3)

Permanent collection
gallery
Costume institute
gallery
Atrium
Photo galleries
Vertical circulation
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2nd floor plan (level 4)

Permanent collection
gallery
Costume institute
gallery
Atrium
Photo galleries
Vertical circulation

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3rd floor plan (level 5)

Centre of curatorial
Temporary exhibition
gallery
Reading room
Vertical circulation
Hotel (spa & gym)
Atrium

4th floor plan (level 6)

Vertical circulation
Hotel (restroom)
Mechanic room

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5th floor plan (level 7)

Vertical circulation
Hotel
Museum restaurant
Sculpture garden
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6th floor plan (level 8)

Vertical circulation
Sculpture garden
Hotel
Museum restaurant

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7th floor plan (level 9)

Hotel
• Rooftop bar/
restaurant
• Swimming pool
• Sky terrace

In what isn't exactly an unexpected incident, given the tradition of mining throughout the
entire existence of the country, the modern development process reflected that of
burrowing a mine, exchanging combination and destruction stages. Basically, a whole new
curio was projected inside the current storehouses, saving the old cylinders with another
substantial design, 200mm thick, for a sum of 8,500m3 of cement. Whenever this was
finished, the unearthing system started, utilizing a specific method of cutting the
substantial with a twofold edged precious stone edge. The surprising perfection of the
surfaces, coming about because of the 13.6km of straight saw cutting, was accomplished
through a manual interaction.

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Section A-A

A A
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Section B-B
B

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South-east elevation
N

South elevation

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North-east elevation

N
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North elevation

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Atrium Detail

Window panel Detail

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Space area (level 1)

Space No. Length Width Area
Approx.

Class room 2 12.4 7.6 94.2

13.2 6.1 80.5

Education 1 16.8 4.3 72.2

Atrium 1 73.82
D=9.5

Service 3 12.8 12.6 161.3

(bath+vertical 13.1 8.5 111.4
circulation+store) 14.6 5.5 80.3

Elevator 4

Circular elevator 1 D=5.5

Tunnel 1 42.5 2.4 102

6 Apprx=612

Space area (level2)

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Space No. Length Width Area

Approx.

Hotel entrance 1 11.5 9.2 105.8

Museum lobby 1 14.4 5.2 74.9
Grand hall 1 32.5 9 295.5
Ticket desk 8.9 8.4 74.76
Service 3 8.5 5.3 45.1
(bath+vertical 8.6 6.1 52.4
circulation+store) 5.7 5.1 29.1
Elevator 4
Circular elevator 2 D=5.5
D=5.5
Musuem shop 1 18.4 14.2 261.3
Performance 1 16.5 10.8 178.2
practice 11.8 4.8 56.6

12 Store 1 23.6 11.4 269.1

9.4 8.9 83.7
Loading bay 1 15.2 7.1 107.9
New media 1 24.9 11.9 269.3
forum
Atrium 1 165.3
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Space area (level 3)

Space No. Length Width Area
Approx.

Permanent 2 19.5 9.5 105.8

collection gallery 13 7.3 94.9
12.5 11 137.5
16.3 9.8 159.7
Costume 1 17.2 8.1 139.3
institute 4.5 3.7 16.6
gallery 13.6 8.1 110.2
atrium 1 165.3

Service 2 8.5 5.3 45.1

(bath+vertical 8.6 6.1 52.4
circulation+store)
Elevator 4

Circular elevator 2 D=5.5

D=5.5
Photo galleries 1 12.7 6.6 83.8
6.9 3.8 26.2

Space area (level 4)

Space No. Length Width Area

Approx.

Permanent 2 19.5 9.5 105.8

collection gallery 13 7.3 94.9
12.5 11 137.5
16.3 9.8 159.7
Costume 1 17.2 8.1 139.3
institute 4.5 3.7 16.6
gallery 13.6 8.1 110.2
atrium 1 165.3

Service 3 8.5 5.3 45.1

(bath+vertical 8.6 6.1 52.4
circulation+store) 8.2 6.8 55.7
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Elevator 4

Circular elevator 2 D=5.5

D=5.5
Photo galleries 1 12.7 6.6 83.8
6.9 3.8 26.2
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Space area (level 5)

Space No. Length Width Area

Approx.

Centre of 1 17.8 8.2 145.9

curatorial
Temporary 6 10.1 7.2 72.72
exhibition gallry 9.8 8.5 83.3
15.9 9.8 155.8
12 8 96
11.7 10.8 126.4
16 9.8 156.8
atrium 1 165.3

Service 3 8.5 5.3 45.1

(bath+vertical 8.6 6.1 52.4
circulation+store) 8.2 6.8 55.7
Elevator 4

Circular elevator 2 D=5.5

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D=5.5
Reading room 1 13.4 6.6 88.5

Hotel (spa&gym) 1 27.6 13.6 375.36

Space area (level 6)

Space No. Length Width Area

Approx.

Hotel (restroom) 1 37.2 18 66.9

Mechanic room 1 33 22.8 75.24

19.8 8.6 170.2

Service 3 8.5 5.3 45.1

(bath+vertical 8.6 6.1 52.4
circulation+store) 8.2 6.8 55.7
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Circular elevator 2 D=5.5

D=5.5
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Space area (level 7) Space area (level 9)

Space No. Length Width Area Space No. Length Width Area
Approx.
Approx.
Hotel 1 37.9 18.9 716.3
Hotel -rooftop 1 38.6 19.3 744.9
Museum 1 34 16.8 571.2
restaurant Service 2 8.5 5.3 45.1
Service 2 8.5 5.3 45.1 (bath+vertical 8.6 6.1 52.4
(bath+vertical 8.6 6.1 52.4 circulation+store)
circulation+store)
Elevator 4 Elevator 2

Circular elevator 2 D=5.5

D=5.5

Sculpture garden 1 23.7 18.6 440.8

Space area (level 8)

Space No. Length Width Area

Approx.

Hotel 1 29.3 14.7 430.7

Museum 1 16.5 10.2 168.3

restaurant
Service 2 8.5 5.3 45.1
(bath+vertical 8.6 6.1 52.4
circulation+store)
Elevator 4

Circular elevator 2 D=5.5

D=5.5
Sculpture garden 1 23.7 18.6 440.8

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Construction views of the project

Figure1 during construction/ heatherwick website

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Figure2 during construction/ heatherwick website Figure3 during construction/ heatherwick website

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Figur4 during construction/ heatherwick website

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Exterior views of the project

Figur5 exterior view to the hotel entrance/ homedecostore website

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Figure 6 exterior view before revitalization / homedecostore website Figure 7 exterior view / homedecostore website
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Interior views of the project

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Figure 7 interior view / arquitecturaviva website Figure 8 interior view / arquitecturaviva website

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Figure 9 interior view / arquitecturaviva website Figure 10 interior view / livinspaces website
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2.2 Similar Examples

Silo Zeeburgereiland-CLIMBING SILO
Amsterdam city chamber as of late held 'the silo competition' which included the
versatile and reuse plan for two previous sewage treatment storehouses in the city's
zee burg locale. For the opposition, NL Architects have proposed storehouses
committed to climbing, sports and culture. in their plan the current constructions were
stretched out to the greatest stature to profit from the perspectives.

The social storehouse comprises of two performance centers with changing areas and
practice spaces, spaces for studios, display spaces, music studios and a space for hair
plan. An extension interfaces the storehouses at the stature of the first rooftop level
and office spaces will be situated on top. The high level will be devoted to an eatery
with 360 perspectives and a rooftop porch.

Utilizing the cylinder of the storehouse as a premise they made a 40 meter high artificial
cavern that comprises of testing cantilevers and shades for climbers. Since climbing
dividers basically are sideways, a part can take into account and expansion in space
between within and outside, permitting useable floor regions on a more elevated level.
Fair and square above is a hotel, preparing offices and a square that can be utilized in
more than one way. On the ground level is a public bistro, associated with the climbing
tower through an opening in the floor above it and is encircled by the stone region.
Climbing holds will be set outwardly of the storehouse as well. The outside as such turns
out to be important for the 'program' climbers will actuate the exterior.

Its location at Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Ground floor plan

Café
Small theater

1st floor plan

Climbing
Big theater
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2nd floor plan

Climbing
Rehearsal

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3rd floor plan

Media track & hair designer
Square

4th floor plan

Office
Climbing training

5th floor plan

Hotel
Restaurant

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Diagrams of the project

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Section of the project

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Views of the project

Figure11 interior view/ designboom website Figure12 interior view/ designboom website
Resume:

Figure13 interior view/ designboom website Figure14 exterior view/ designboom website

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Figure15 exterior view/ google website Figure16 exterior view/ designboom website
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2.3 Similar Examples

Silo Zeeburgereiland-NETHERLAND’S SILO
Two previous sewage therapy storehouses in Amsterdam are planned to be remodeled
and in their arrangement get another capacity as a multifunctional social house, bearing
the name of the Netherland's most well-known children's book writer, Annie M.G.
Schmidt. The structure's arrangement permits the different projects to work totally
autonomously of each other. This makes it feasible for each of the middle's different
capacities to engage guests all the while, and guarantees that the storehouses are
seriously utilized in the nights just as during the day. Distinctive roof capacities and skins
furnish every one of the storehouses with its own characteristic. One storehouse has a
steel sheath punctured with text, which around evening time is enlightened from
behind. The storehouse's housetop eatery gives an all-encompassing perspective on the
whole city. The other storehouse, whose projects don't need light, is covered with ivy
and has a huge roof jungle gym, which is associated with the other storehouse's roof
café.
• Historical landmark in Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Winning entry for a cultural reuse of sewage silo's, Amsterdam, NL.
• 25m diameter
• 4000 m² museum, in two abandoned sewage tanks.

Its location at Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Ground floor plan

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Section of the project

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Section of the project

Views of the project

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Figure17 exterior view/ aronsengelauff website Figure18 exterior view/ aronsengelauff website
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2.4 Similar Examples

The house of the living and the house of the dead SILO
Swedish understudies of Lund University Fredrik Thornström and Karolina
Pajnowska propose to transform a neglected grain storehouse into a columbarium-
motivated vertical burial ground as a touchy answer for Malmö port region.
Project called The City of the Living and The City of the Dead features both a
crematorium and an associated lodging building Also, offers a reflection for a touchy
way to deal with feasible structure culture.
The idea of the structure is making groups of storehouse chambers to shape void 'voids'
overwhelmed with light from a higher place. The voids have urns that are put on racks
spiraling along the inward round and hollow dividers. The vacant spaces are
designated for the dead just and are out of reach for the guests.

It’s location in the harbour of Nyhamnen, Malmö (Sweden).

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Ground floor plan

Vertical circulation
Stair
Vertical circulation
Elevator
Paths
Reception

1st floor plan

Vertical circulation
Stair
Vertical circulation
Elevator
Vertical crematorium
Office

Floor plans

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Vertical circulation Vertical crematorium

Stair
Vertical circulation Storage
Elevator
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Plan floors

Vertical circulation Stair Vertical circulation Elevator Vertical crematorium

Storage Office store
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Diagram

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Diagram

Section A-A

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Views of the project

Figure 19The voids for the dead / fredrikthornstrom website Figure 20 The ceremony hall/ fredrikthornstrom website
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Figure 21Entrance from the park/ fredrikthornstrom website Figure 22 Ceremony podium/fredrikthornstrom website
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Floor plan of the housing units

Kitchen & dinning

Vertical circulation

Master bedroom

Bedroom

Balcony

Living room

Hall

Section drawing

Perspective view

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2.5 Similar Examples

'BS25' Silos, Diving and Indoor Skydiving Center Proposal
It’s location at Poland-Warsaw, The proposition by Moko Architects for the Diving and
Indoor Skydiving Center reestablishes a piece of a house processing plant in Żerao which
worked before.
Turn a structure in a non-created region with deserted lobbies and stockrooms into an
entertainment community open lasting through the year in the old storehouses where
mass concrete used to be put away before.
The measurement of the diameter is 7m.

Level 0&1

• The ground floor will

feature the entrance
area
• Exhibition space,
professional
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magazines reading
area, external café
open in the summer
season as well as a
workshop.
• Level 1 - house
sports stores & shops

Level 2&3

• Level 2- Administration
• Level 3- offices

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• Level 4- hostel
• Level 5- indoor
skydiving
training rooms and changing
rooms for skydivers as well as
the entrance to the
area where the
practical training of indoor
skydiving is conducted

• Level 6- hostel
hostel for divers
• Level 7- diving
feature training and
presentation rooms for
divers

• Level 8- diving
changing rooms separate for
women and men.
• Level 9- gastronomy

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Diagram
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Diagram
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Diagram

Section

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2.6 Similar Examples

Silo Reconversion. Shenzhen, China
. Architects: O-OFFICE Architects
Location: 63 Xizeng Road, Liwan, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Typology: Commercial & Offices / Studio
Project Year: 2013
Structure: Reinforced Concrete
Area: 621.0 sq.m²

In 2012, O-office transformed the highest level of a 1960s' storehouse working in the
most established lager manufacturing plant of Guangzhou, the focal city of southern
China.
The 38-meter-tallness of the storehouse
The highest level used to be the gulf level for the wheat berry to be fill in the 12
storehouse's beneath
Resume:

A scaffold building has been interfacing the structure incompletely on top of the
storehouse's, and the upward transportation tower at the east end.

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Figure 23 front elevation/ divisare website

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Floor plan-original plan

Floor plan-reconversion plan

Floor plan-reconversion plan

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Workshop place Stair case Kitchen

Elevator Balcony Bar area

Bathroom Meeting hall Mezzani

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Diagram
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Section

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Conclusion

• As part of the creative renewal and adaptive reuse of those projects that been
explained, gives Preservation, survival, re-functioning and transfer those approaches to
future generations.
• According to the Erbil’s silo by considering its form & structure, leads to getting benefit
from each of those previous examples in specific parts particularly.

1. The Zeitz MOCAAMuseum in Cape Town

• Due to similarity in general form with the Erbil’s silos especially the tubes, that
almost have the same diameter, height and thickness therefore it could be used for
museum and the other functions that included.
• From Erbil’s silo, existing of rectangular shape in the middle could be use like the
rectangular part of the Mocaa silo that is work as multifunction including hostel &
restaurant.

Figure 24 exterior view / fredrikthornstrom website Figure 25 interior view/ divisare website

2. Climbing silo

• Silos could be used for entertaining as the climbing silo proposal, because of having
those tubes that gives amount of voids leads to be use also as climbing wall.

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Figure 26 climbing silo / google website Figure 26 climbing silo / google website
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3. Netherland’s silo
• receive a new function as a multifunctional cultural house and various functions to
entertain visitors, considering all the ages with kids

• Different rooftop functions and skins

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4. The house of the living and the house of the dead Silo

• From the vertical cemetery for our culture could not be a serving point to be consider,
despite the water element that could give a captivate views especially suits with the
tubes due to having vertical voids that leads to require it.
• The other parts serve as residential unit, it’s quiet possible for having housing from the
rectangular shape or inside the tubes.

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5. 'BS25’ silo

• Providing entertainment environment for visitors like Indoor Skydiving

Center, and diving.
• Both are suitable with the shape of tubes that serve the voids to be use in a good
ways.

6. Silo Reconversion. Shenzhen, China

• From the top view we able to see a rectangular shape that laid down on the left
cylinders.
• Getting benefits with the way of dealing with the internal spaces

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Tishk International University Sulaimany
Faculty Of Engineering
Architecture Department
5th Grade
2021-2022

GRADUATION THESIS PROJECT

REDESIGNING OF UNUSED INDUSTRIAL BUILDNG
INTO LIVEABLE PLACE

PREPARED BY: MRAZ FERHAD

SUPERVISORS: DR.HOSHIAR QADIR
MR.MUSTAFA MUKHLIS
MR.KARZAN SAADON
MISS.SAYA HIKMAT
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2.1 literature review

History
“The word "silo" comes from the Latin word sirus, or silus, meaning cellar, the use of the silo as
we now understand it appears to have been com- menced in 1861 by A. Reihlen, of Stuttgart,
Germany, who probably stored the first green maize in pit.” Fish, N. S. (1924). The History of the Silo
in Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Magazine of History, 160-170.

The silo has a place with the sort of building where Le Corbusier found "pure form", forms can
be generated and created by their own function. He referred to such structures as “the first-
fruits of the new age” and images of an architect's work as administered by the consequences
of computation (and thus derived from the principles which govern our universe) [Le Corbusier,
1931].
“There are many types of silos and over time, designs have changed as technology and uses
changed. The very specific nature of silo construction is an exciting challenge when it comes to
converting its architecture.” Đukić, A. (Ed.). (2019). Keeping Up with Technologies to Create the Cognitive
City. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

“First entering our lexicon in the mid-1970s,1 the term “adaptive reuse” was introduced to
Resume:

address the increasing anxiety about finite development space and dwindling natural
resources.”( howardbuilding-website.)
“Adaptive reuse is described as developing the potential of additional use and wear for
functionally obsolete buildings. It is essentially the recycling of a building. Commonly associated
with historic preservation, the process involves more than restoration“.Ijla, A., & Broström, T.
(2015). The sustainable viability of adaptive reuse of historic buildings: The experiences of two world heritage old
cities; Bethlehem in Palestine and Visby in Sweden. International Invention Journal of Arts and Social
Sciences, 2(4), 52-66.

“The greenest building is … one that is already built.” – Carl Elefante, Architect

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Case studies
Frosilo in Copenhagen, Denmark
“Completed in 2005, the Frosilo project involved the overhaul of the twin 1960s-built silos,
which were put out of service when the soybean processing plant closed in the 1990s. MVRDV
was tasked with transforming the structures into an apartment block. Unlike the warehouse
conversions common in the area, which maintain a historic character, the silos were seen by
MVRDV as a bare structure that could easily accommodate "futuristic" homes. “taddonio, l. S.
Adaptive reuse of silo buildings with a new function.

The primary impediments of the storehouse hold the answer for the plan. For example, large
openings are hard to make in the outside substantial rings. Making entryway openings is
conceivable yet confounded, and must be finished in a predetermined number of areas.
Finding condos in the storehouses may suggest, in regions where perspectives are accessible,
that the spaces are coordinated internal. For a distribution center redesign this may be
adequate, due to its stupendous status, however on account of a storehouse, this kind of
configuration botches a key chance.
Critical point of view from this project, there’s not enough respect to the original structure that
lead to lose values and identity.
The bridge link between this example with my study, both are on adaptive reuse approach on
silo projects

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Oslo’s Student Housing Complex

“The best use for a large grain elevator is of course to store grain, but as commercial interests
shift over time, many cities around the world are left with big, hulking structures and nothing to
store in them. One good option is adaptive reuse. In Oslo, HRTB Arkitekter AS transformed an
old grain elevator located along the Akerselva River into a 19-story student housing complex
known as Grünerløkka Studenthus. Using bright panels of colored glass, the architects managed
to add a bit of whimsy to the concrete, battleship gray exterior, while leaving most of the
original structure intact. "futuristic" homes. “taddonio, l. S. Adaptive reuse of silo buildings with a new
function.
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Initially inherent 1953, the grain lift was utilized to store corn from Oslo's Nedrefoss Mill, and it
was in activity from the 1950s to the 1990s. The construction comprises of three columns of
seven grain storehouses 21 altogether. In 1993, the neighborhood government in the
Norwegian capital supported the versatile reuse project; work began on the transformation in
1999, and in 2001 the structure returned as an understudy lodging complex. HRTB Arkitekter
was supported by Lykke Frydenlund and Ingrid Løvstad, who gave imaginative and inside plan
ability.
Critical point of view from this project, there must be a huge cost on providing horizontal
structure for each floor while dealing only with the vertical spaces is much more challenging.
The bridge link between this example with my study, both are on adaptive reuse approach on
silo projects, this one almost have a close diameter to the Erbil silo that show us we able to use
few of the cylindrical tube as residential
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The Factory / Ricardo Bofill in Sant Just Desvern, Spain

“In 1973 Ricardo Bofill found a disused cement factory silo, an industrial complex from the
turn of the century consisting of over 30 silos, subterranean galleries and huge machine
rooms, and he decided to transform it into the head office of Taller de Arquitectura.
Remodelling work lasted two years. The factory, abandoned and partially in ruins, was a
compendium of surrealist elements: stairs that climbed up to nowhere, mighty reinforced
concrete structures that sustained nothing, pieces of iron hanging in the air, huge empty
spaces filled nonetheless with magic”. taddonio, l. S. Adaptive reuse of silo buildings with a new function.

Different spaces became noticeable: The Cathedral, the nurseries, the storehouses. Later we
needed to separate the new developments with a particular jargon, which incorporates
different dialects from the History of Architecture contrary to vernacular design. We
envisioned windows, entryways, steps and bogus points of view, and applied them to the
outside dividers and a portion of the insides. Gradually, with the significant assistance of
Catalan specialists, the Cement Factory was changed, however it will forever stay an
incomplete work.

The bridge link between this example with my study, both are on adaptive reuse approach on
silo projects, this one façade’s has been work on arch opening that gives the idea to how deal
with those type of opening with these tubes shape of Erbil silo. 5
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Stoneworks Rock Climbing

“The Old Downtown Square of Carrollton, Texas is the location of three buildings of a large
grain and feed operation including a giant concrete storage tower of the Blanton Grain
Company, . In 1974, the Blanton Grain Company land and buildings were bought and leased
out by a local electrical company for years without any success, A young couple, Russell and
Karen Rand, bought and redesigned the concrete storage bins (silos) to turn the ten giant
concrete grain silos into the world’s tallest indoor climbing gym.” Ernest, C. D. (2017). Repurposing
a grain silo elevator in Seymour, Indiana: an opportunity for new life.
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The gym center is almost multiple times the tallness of the normal climbing gym center, and it
draws in more than 10,000 climbers from the North Texas locale. The pinnacles on the
storehouses are used as crisis administrations correspondence radio wires, so the whole
structure from floor to rooftop is utilized.

The bridge link between this example with my study, both are on adaptive reuse approach on
silo projects, this one creatively worked on the vertical spaces without providing horizontal
structure, and gives more entertainment environment to the surrounding neighborhood.

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Mill City Museum

“The A Mill was rebuilt in 1880 with new machinery that provided safer operations, higher
quality flour, and became the largest and most technologically advanced mill in the world
This mill was said to ground enough flour to make 12 million loaves of bread a day, From
1880-1930, Minneapolis led the nation in flour production and became known as the “Flour
Milling Capital of the World” (or more informally as “Mill City”).” Ernest, C. D. (2017).
Repurposing a grain silo elevator in Seymour, Indiana: an opportunity for new life.

Legacy the travel industry is an industry that has been filling in notoriety over the most
recent ten years or somewhere in the vicinity. The Textile Mills, a legacy gallery in Lodz,
Poland, offers a similar recorded cooperation as the Mill City Museum in Minneapolis.
Madison, Indiana flourishes off of legacy the travel industry as their top industry where
guests are drawn towards various recorded realities incorporated every street corner and
building.
The bridge link between this example with my study, both are on adaptive reuse approach
on silo projects, the idea of having museum in these type of structure is a great idea
because of the huge spaces and attracting visitors.