Basically what I see us doing is a display in the Foyer area, mainly aimed at people with some knowledge of the industry but hopefully accessible enough to be appreciated by anyone with an interest in Sustainability. The location of the foyer lends itself well to this as it would be seen by many visiting architects etc as opposed to people who have just wandered up to it, although they’d of course be welcome. I’d see it as being 4 display boards with a couple of small scale installations, same sort of vibe as the entrance area to the RIBA building (that is the one we went into right?)
So the display would be set up like:
Board 1
A discussion of the end life of a current building, how much waste is produced, what materials are sent to landfills, what things are recycled as standard.
A summary of the materials which are recycled as standard and what they are reused as, perhaps a case study of one material showing the steps it goes through between being reclaimed and its new use.
Board 2
A discussion of the 2 different design philosophies which can be used to recycle the materials which are not recycled as standard. E.g., ductwork, piping, carpets, window frames. This can be done through 2 case studies:
Case Study 1: looking at reclaiming some of these waste materials and using it in a new or innovative way, for example, shredding the existing insulation and using it as a cavity fill.
This is our opportunity to have a hooking point, we should create an installation to underline this point. It could be jumpers made out of carpets, a bicycle frame made from copper piping, a chair made from ventilation ductwork, anything which underlines reusing building elements in a new way.
Case Study 2: Looking at how the building element which is being scrapped, could have been installed in such a way as to enable it to be removed at the end of the buildings life and easily reused, without needing a huge change in use or requiring huge amounts of energy to recycle.
This is the cradle to cradle strategy. There are loads of construction materials that it can be applied to, quite a few are actually listed on that website that Crispin sent round. Off the top of my head I can think of a kind of tubing I’ve looked at before tubing which is a replacement for standard pipework which snaps together, and at the end of its life can be broken down into its basic elements, taken to a different site and used to form a completely different piping system. We ouldnt need to go into masses of detail here though, just enough to illustrate this philosophy.
Board 3
A discussion of the new industry that a change to this design paradigm could stimulate. This board can discuss jobs, people, and essentially link in with many of the wider themes of sustainability.
Board 4
A concluding board where we recap this whole building end-life philosophy. This can link in well with Andy’s sculpture Idea, which encourages people to look at a building as a collection of elements which can be used to create other projects, rather than a section of building waste and trying haphazardly to recycle what we can from it.
This would leave us with 4 boards, and 2 displays in the lobby area, which i think would be quite good as an educational display.
It’s a project which would make Ramboll appear quite exciting, as a company pioneering this holistic approach to construction and I think its pretty realistically achievable and gives us a nice set of things we can deliver.
If I was summing up our project in a couple of sentences like Yanchee asked for yesterday it’d be something along the lines of: “To create an educational display aimed at members of the industry which promotes awareness of end life recycling to drastically increase the sustainability of the construction industry.”
So the display would be set up like:
Board 1
A discussion of the end life of a current building, how much waste is produced, what materials are sent to landfills, what things are recycled as standard.
A summary of the materials which are recycled as standard and what they are reused as, perhaps a case study of one material showing the steps it goes through between being reclaimed and its new use.
Board 2
A discussion of the 2 different design philosophies which can be used to recycle the materials which are not recycled as standard. E.g., ductwork, piping, carpets, window frames. This can be done through 2 case studies:
Case Study 1: looking at reclaiming some of these waste materials and using it in a new or innovative way, for example, shredding the existing insulation and using it as a cavity fill.
This is our opportunity to have a hooking point, we should create an installation to underline this point. It could be jumpers made out of carpets, a bicycle frame made from copper piping, a chair made from ventilation ductwork, anything which underlines reusing building elements in a new way.
Case Study 2: Looking at how the building element which is being scrapped, could have been installed in such a way as to enable it to be removed at the end of the buildings life and easily reused, without needing a huge change in use or requiring huge amounts of energy to recycle.
This is the cradle to cradle strategy. There are loads of construction materials that it can be applied to, quite a few are actually listed on that website that Crispin sent round. Off the top of my head I can think of a kind of tubing I’ve looked at before tubing which is a replacement for standard pipework which snaps together, and at the end of its life can be broken down into its basic elements, taken to a different site and used to form a completely different piping system. We ouldnt need to go into masses of detail here though, just enough to illustrate this philosophy.
Board 3
A discussion of the new industry that a change to this design paradigm could stimulate. This board can discuss jobs, people, and essentially link in with many of the wider themes of sustainability.
Board 4
A concluding board where we recap this whole building end-life philosophy. This can link in well with Andy’s sculpture Idea, which encourages people to look at a building as a collection of elements which can be used to create other projects, rather than a section of building waste and trying haphazardly to recycle what we can from it.
This would leave us with 4 boards, and 2 displays in the lobby area, which i think would be quite good as an educational display.
It’s a project which would make Ramboll appear quite exciting, as a company pioneering this holistic approach to construction and I think its pretty realistically achievable and gives us a nice set of things we can deliver.
If I was summing up our project in a couple of sentences like Yanchee asked for yesterday it’d be something along the lines of: “To create an educational display aimed at members of the industry which promotes awareness of end life recycling to drastically increase the sustainability of the construction industry.”
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