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

Author/EditorBaker-Brown, Duncan (Author)
Publisher: RIBA Publishing
ISBN: 9781914124129
Pub Date01/09/2024
BindingHardback
Pages240
Edition2ND ED
Dimensions (mm)250(h) * 210(w)
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.
$77.80
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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.

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.

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.

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?

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