The story
An idle boiler room is repurposed as a civic room for a recovering city.
In central Trostyanets, an underused communal boiler building is proposed for conversion into a Youth Community Center serving both local residents and people displaced by Russia’s war against Ukraine. Reusing the industrial shell preserves material and memory while giving a neglected structure a new public role. A large multipurpose hall, coworking areas, educational rooms, and cultural activity spaces would support study, events, collaboration, and informal gathering under one roof. Renewable-energy upgrades and a repaired envelope are intended to reduce operating demands and model practical renovation within the region’s broader reconstruction effort.
The project establishes a clear adaptive-reuse concept for a proposed youth center. The center remains a proposal. The adaptation would turn the former service building into shared facilities for young people and community programs.
