As climate change intensifies, millions are expected to seek safer living conditions in low-risk areas, such as midwestern receiver cities, like Detroit. These cities, marked by economic shifts and population decline, have numerous vacant post-industrial buildings that could provide community infrastructure for climate-displaced individuals. Adaptive reuse of these structures offers a potential solution but faces challenges such as high costs, lengthy timelines, idiosyncratic design interventions, and limited engagement with the unique needs of displaced communities. This thesis proposes a reimagining of adaptive reuse that emphasizes a systems-oriented approach that takes the form of a modular system within which the aforementioned challenges can be addressed by integrating cultural, sustainable, and infrastructural elements to prepare post industrial cities for climate-induced displacement. This adaptive reuse framework is accomplished through two phases. Demolition, which strips the building of its obsolete elements down to its structural core which then acts as the host for the second phase of the framework. The installation phase includes a pre-fabricated, modular shell system that is strategically inserted into the remaining building core. This systematic, modular approach to the revitalization of post industrial buildings aims to address both the growing concerns related to climate induced displacement and the shortfalls of the adaptive reuse discourse.