Title: Resource salvation : the architecture of reuse /
Authors: Gorgolewski, Mark,
Year: 2018
Subjects: Sustainable architecture; Buildings Salvaging; Building materials Recycling.; Building materials Recycling; Buildings Salvaging; Sustainable architecture
Abstract: Mounting resource shortages worldwide coupled with skyrocketing extraction costs for new materials have made the prospect of materials reuse and recycling an issue of paramount importance. A fundamental goal of the sustainable design movement is to derive utmost use from construction materials and components, including energy, water, materials, building components, whole structures, and even entire infrastructures. Written by an expert with many years of experience in both industry and academe, this book explores a wide range of sustainable design strategies which designers around the globe are using to create efficient and aesthetically pleasing buildings from waste streams and discarded items. Emphasizing performance issues, design considerations and process constraints, it describes numerous fully realized projects, and explores theoretical applications still on the drawing board. There is a growing awareness worldwide of the need for cyclical systems of materials reuse.^
Contents: Introduction. Background ; Scarcity of resource ; Waste and obsolescence ; Permanence and repair ; Material efficiency ; Embodied energy and carbon ; The circular economy ; Reuse v recycling ; Summary ; References -- Concepts supporting reuse. History of building component reuse ; Barriers to reuse ; Urban metabolism and resource flows ; Urban mining ; Upcycling-cradle to cradle ; Salvageability and design for deconstruction (DfD) ; Information -materials passports ; Component redesign- design for reassembly and secondary use ; Typologies of material reuse ; References -- Case studies. Adaptive reuse with component reuse ; Alliander-nothing is new ; Posner Center for International Development-the horsebarn ; Energy Resource Center (ERC)- a learning hub ; Hughes Warehouse -building community ; Roy Stibbs Elementary School- a building as a material bank ; Hindmarsh Shire council corporate offices-old anchors new -- Reusing what is available at the site. Ford Calumet Environmental Center-'form follows availability' ; Hill End Eco-House ; Tysons Living Learning Centre : Parkwood Residences -reuse of an old steel frame -- Reusing construction materials from elsewhere. Headquarters of the European Council and Council of the European Union ; La Cuisine, Winnipeg Fold Festival ; Pointe Valaine Community Centre ; Oasis Children's Venture ; The Old Oak Dojo -- Secondary use of non-construction materials. Pocono Environmental Education Center-tyre wall ; Big Dig House-from highway to housing ; Kaap Skil, maritime and Beachcombers Museum ; Waste House-UK's first permanent building make form rubbish -- Materials investigations. Nordic built component reuse ; Storywood ; Reuse of structural steel ; Rebrick project -- Practitioners. ROTOR ; Milestone Project Management ; Lendager group ; Superuse studios -- Implications for design. Design process characteristics ; Performance issues ; Understanding sources and opportunities ; Decision process.