The Re-use Atlas - A Designer's Guide Towards a Circular Economy

The Re-use Atlas - A Designer's Guide Towards a Circular Economy. Through inspirational case studies, this book is an accessible and practical guide to how architects can move from a linear economy towards a circular economy.

Do you know how to design for a circular economy?

A truly sustainable, circular economy is both a robust and viable option for architecture. Through inspirational case studies, interviews and essays, this book is an accessible and practical guide to how architects can move from a linear economy towards a circular economy.

This atlas to sustainable, closed-loop systems takes the reader on a journey through four distinct steps (Recycle, Reuse, Reduce, Circular Economy) that show how they can dramatically reduce the negative impact humans have on the planet. It gives architects the skills and knowledge to navigate through the emerging fields of resource management towards a true Circular Economy. Each step is supplemented with an in-depth interview with an expert who is successfully tacking one or more of the challenges facing all designers today.

If we change our behaviour, we enable humanity to work with nature rather than against it. Be part of the change.

About the author

Duncan Baker-Brown is a practicing architect, academic and environmental activist. He has practiced, researched, and taught around issues of sustainable development for more than 25 years and founded BBM Sustainable Design in 1994 with his partner Ian McKay. Since then he has worked on hundreds of projects considering many aspects of sustainable design and closed-loop systems.

CONTENT

Foreword Preface

PART 1 Setting the Waste Scene

Chapter 1 Resource matters

Chapter 2 What a waste!

Chapter 3 The political narrative

PART 2 - Circular Inspirations

Step 1 - Recycing Waste Case

Study 1 - Gumtech Case

Study 2 - ReWorked/SMILE Case

Study 3 - Net-Works Case

Study 4 - Overtreders-W Case

Study 5 - Local Works Studio Case

Study 6: a:gain

Step 2: Reusing Waste

Case Study 1 - Rural Studio

Case Study 2 - SuperUse Studio

Case Study 3 - Hub 67 by Lyn Atelier

Case Study 4 - Rubber House & RecyclingHaus

Case Study 5 - Super Local

Case Study 6 - Entopia CISL HQ

Case Study 7 - Cleveland Steel

Case Study 8 - Cycle Station

Case Study 9 - Cork House & Stone House

Case Study 10 - Resource Rows

Step 3: Reducing

Case Study 1 - Rotor

Case Study 2 - Lacaton & Vassal

Case Study 3 - Rented House Life

Case Study 4 - RAFT

Case Study 5 - Samual Becket Theatre

Case Study 6 - No.1 Triton Square

Case Study 7 - Jo Tailieu Paddenbroek Education Centre

Case Study 8 - de Ceuval

Step 4: The Circular Economy

Case Study 1 - Prof Dirk Hebel

Case Study 2 - Francis Kere

Case Study 3 - Enterprise Centre

Case Study 4 - Orsman Road

Case Study 5 - Cepezed

Case Study 6 - Housing by BHCC

Case Study 7 - Overtreders-W People's Pavilion

Case Study 8 - GS8 Housing Orford Mews

Case Study 9 - Biohm

Case Study 10 - Work of Hans Hammink

PART 4 Looking Forward

Chapter 4 Product Moments, Material Eternities

Chapter 5 The Wiki-Waste Workshop

Chapter 6 It's all change now...isn't it?