49 [STATE OF THE ART (CONSERVATION STATE - RELATION BETWEEN BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT - ACTUAL USE)] In today's Trondheim the influence of the warehouses facing the Nidelva River is profoundly central at the urban level. They are in an enclave influenced by the forced connection between two densely populated districts, the city centre and the Bakklandet district, naturally separated by the river. In the space between the two main bridges that guarantee this connection and, at the same time, on the west bank of the river, is where the warehouses of greatest historical importance are located, and they are the ones which are the subject of this study. This front of buildings of Kjøpmannsgata, beyond being a historical landmark in the drawing of the city, is a central point in itself, and it is the image that the city wants to project towards its visitors. It is important to highlight the relevance of the sector as a whole, beyond the interest of any individual warehouse. That what is presented in this section of the Nidelva river acts like an exposure of a particular constructive and architectural system of continuous application. In addition, it speaks directly of the idiosyncrasy of the city and its deepest conditions and traditions. Although the sector continues to be an absolutely central point in the city and surely its most visible face; there is a deep conservation problem linked to the disappearance of its original use, that of goods and food storage, and the consequent lack of maintenance and repair tasks directly linked to this commercial activity. Since the sudden disappearance of the original use of the warehouses caused by the construction of the new wharf, better prepared for larger ships, there has been a prolonged dichotomy between the abandonment of some of the warehouses and the architectural adaptation of the rest to a changing variety of uses. Today this dichotomy still holds, and even does so in a more complex way. With the development of urban and architectural regulations, the level of intervention and reconstruction with respect to the original state of the buildings has become deeply invasive for most of the proposed and existing uses. On the other hand, there are initiatives under development for the intensive conservation of the original state of some of the buildings which, however, have great difficulties searching for possible owners who might be interested in a building with a high level of historical responsibility, maintenance and ongoing continuous costs and whose future use and potential long-term profitability from a particular investment point of view are virtually unknown. With this situation, the establishment of an intermediate situation is of critical importance, where the buildings can be used and have a certain level of economic
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