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In the context of a global economic and ecological crisis, the problem of the most efficient use of resources is becoming increasingly prominent. That is why focusing on existing architectural heritage, protecting and capitalizing on it becomes important principles for the development of a sustainable city. In the case of Bucharest, the existing industrial patrimony is a resource still untapped, often abandoned or improperly used, without any respect for its value. The transformation of a degraded industrial area and its reintegration into the city's urban circuit becomes the main goal of the Wolff site's former site, a site with a personality that, due to its amplitude and development potential, can play an important role in the diffusion process of the center city. The project aims at activating the area, strengthening local communities, preventing demolition (capitalizing on existing resources) and highlighting history (creating a space with a well-defined identity within the city). It is aimed at a discreet intervention, with natural gestures and characteristic details that aim to highlight the industrial value of existing buildings, and maximize the urban potential of the ensemble, thus transforming an initially disordered and inaccessible space into a personality space that acts as core in the activation process But the project is not just a controlled architectural intervention, it also involves a strategy for the development of the area. That's why the contemporary creation center comes as a natural functional response, both because of the nonconformism and the permissiveness of the creative industry that make it ideal for occupying the types of the resulting spaces, as well as a reaction to the problem. By creating spaces dedicated to a local industry to be placed outside the globalization infusion area, a