h ahmadi saray - Master of Arts in Architecture at Eastern Mediterranean University,
a mohammadi kouchehbagh - Master of Arts in Geography and Urban planning at Tabriz University,
n aghazad emtenani - Master of Arts in Architecture at Tabriz Islamic Azad University,

Increasing the number of cities which planned to preserve and save their old industrial buildings that abandoned or going to lose their function shows that strong demand started to save these buildings that someday were the city's or location's industry heart and in some cases where the reason for creation of the city. It shows that culturally or historically or any reasons, nowadays, these industrial buildings worth is much more than abandoned or bad looking buildings, they are live history tellers, maybe specially because of this reason society strongly wants to preserve them. During the preservation, governors or designers thinks widely and makes their decision that would be affected in long term process by adaptive reuse plan for these abandoned and going to demolished industrial buildings, also these efforts placed in their city or location's development plan. Opportunity of adaptive reuse plan accompany with designing the urban development plan, makes city's growth more sustainable and characteristic by keeping and preserving the city or location's industry history. Adaptive reuse of old industrial buildings is the process to find a new proper function for industrial buildings. This process structurally should profitable with the old building and should define culture and character of the location beside financial aid for the location. Furthermore, this process aimed to protect the old industrial buildings from abandonment and demolitions, also by finding new functions in adaptive reuse, the process should be long term use because some of these industrial buildings had experienced temporary use, shortly this is long term preservation by calling adaptive reuse of old industrial buildings and option of adaptive reuse must be preferred strongly from demolition. Preserved old industrial buildings will help to recognize the community's character by making relation with the past. Nowadays preserving of these buildings is important, they are cultural and historical monuments, in past time, and they were the wheels of development process. Preservation and finding proper function in adaptive reuse process beside the financial problems are not such obstacles that community and governments and designers do not challenge themselves to path it. Also by making proper adaptive reuse of old industrial buildings, financial problems can be solved.

industrial buildings, adaptive (context-oriented) reuse, preservation, abandoned