This work explores the practice of adaptive re-use applied to the phenomenon of obsolescence that buildings and sites pass through as consequence of the crisis that suppose the natural passage of time and the rupture with the economic, socio-cultural and normative ties that once sustained architectural elements with its past context. And pose it as a possible solution to the complicated situation that Las Cocheras de Cuatro Caminos is going through in the city of Madrid, where even being recognized as an important part of the Spanish industrial heritage are in danger of extinction due to the high value of its land.