NEW CHANCE, NEW USE

To effectively develop a culture of material reuse, we need to promote this idea from the earliest stages of a professional‘s education. As architecture students, we are responsible for producing a significant amount of waste throughout our academic formation. Whether it comes from dozens of printed plans or the countless models that mark our degree, the amount of waste we produce reflects our current culture of once used, directly discarded.

If we want to develop circular architecture on a 1:1 scale, what‘s stopping us from taking this philosophy to a smaller scale? The idea may sound a little arduous or overly labor intensive at first, but after developing the Circular Hub project, we thought it would be an interesting challenge to put into practice. Once again, we are faced with the following question: To what extent can we reuse materials and what strategies can we develop to optimize and make the most of this process?