Research On Preservation And Rehabilitation Of Modern Concrete Industrial Buildings In Shanghai (1880-1940)

Since shanghai was opened up in Oct. 1843 , the modern industry established by the foreign merchants entered shanghai gradually. All during the late 1920's to the early 1930's, the modern industry of shanghai got its advantage position countrywide, whether on enterprise quantity, equipments or shop management. And shanghai became the most important base of the Chinese industry, lots of concrete industry buildings were built. After liberation, shanghai had suffered several industrial reconstructions. With the development of the "withdraw from the industry, enter the service" strategy, abundant of the industrial estates and concrete buildings were abandoned or displaced, the needs of the rehabilitation of the industrial buildings increase rapidly.The concrete industrial building has many excellences, such as good plasticity, widely spread, large quantity and simple maintenance. This type of industrial building takes an important part of the reform and rehabilitation of the industry inheritance in shanghai.The paper chooses the rehabilitation of abattoir of S.M.C.P.W.D (1933 Old Millfun) as the primary case for study, observes the protection and regeneration tactic through various perspectives, study the renewal pattern, design, details of concrete buildings, and discusses the possible technology that can be used. Also some comparative analysis are done with two relative cases. Based on the theoretic research and the case study, I hope to provide some threads and references for the projects on the concrete industrial building protection and regeneration in the future.