Yingqi Wang

Abstract

“The objective of this project is to enhance in response to the rising population designed to efficiently recycle, (PLASTIC). Additionally, this system significance of recycling and promote ultimately raising awareness about

Abstract

enhance environmental protection population by introducing programs recycle, reduce, and reuse resources system aims to educate people on the promote proper recycling practices, about environmental protection.”

WHITE POLLUTION

60 million of unrecycled plastic bag per year

19.5 million pairs of chopsticks waste per year

1 IN 3 MILLION tons was recycled only

1/14 of china’s total population In 2020, he to 6.5 million metric plastic consumption

he Nan had up metric tons of consumption

The recycling rate in Henan is not very high and recycling is not a widely accepted practice

Doing

Due to over-population, commercialization...There’s less and less non-profitable space to have Hence, a free community is

more practice to enhance the behavior of recycling, reducing and repurpose is a necessity.

over-population, and commercialization...There’s non-profitable fun and chill. free gathering is considered.

Integrating more recycles inspired activity (art installation)to improve pedagogy.

Thesis Statement

“I envision an inclusive, friendly, for our locality that uses sustainable, promote efficient socializing and a space where everyone feels welcome, work together to protect the environment community’s

friendly, non-profit community center sustainable, closed-loop systems to and recycling. The goal is to create welcome, and where we can all environment and enhance our well-being.”

Survey result

14 out of 22 recycle regularly

15 out of 22 ARE FAMILiAR WITH ADAPTIVE REUSE

19 out of 22 WOULD CONSIDER GET EDUCATED WITH SUSTAINABILITY

RECYCLES INSPIRED ART

To advocate

Reducing, reusing, recycling

The intention of this art installation is to call on everyone to donate unused recycles and end up re-purposing them to emphasize the importance of recycling and reuse, and to highlight the amount of daily garbage so that everyone can minimize the use of garbage, or to encourage more use of recycles.

KEY WORDS:

• REDUCE

• REUSE

• RECYCLE

• ADAPTIVE REUSE

• ART INSTALLATION

REUSE

Introduction

In architecture, adaptive reuse (also called building reuse) refers to the re-purposing of an existing structure for new use. For example, converting an old church into a restaurant, an old train station into an office space, or an old windmill into a home. Adaptive reuse architecture breathes new life into historic structures by converting them into something useful for the surrounding are, like low-income housing, student housing, community centers, or mixed-use creative venues. Commercial real estate developers most commonly handle adaptive reuse projects because they have the financial means and construction expertise required to renovate.

Why adaptive reuse

Energy and Atmosphere: Using less energy

Indoor Environmental Quality:

Improvement on indoor environmental quality

Sustainable Sites and Materials and Resources: Save the use of virgin material

Quote from USGBC, "the greenest building is the one that already existed".

ADAPTIVELY REPURPORSED

ECO & SUSTAINABLE FURNITURE

etsy

Best For | Up-cycled, unique pieces

Furniture Type | Benches, tables, headboards, shelves, storage, bedroom, outdoor

Features | Varies by seller, certified B Corp, carbon-neutral shipping

Price | Varies by seller; payment plans available

Sabai

Best For | Recycled couches

Furniture Type | Seating Features | Made-to-order in the able & recycled materials, Eco-friendly bon-neutral shipping option, secondhand Price | $$

1-HDPE-high-density polyethylene:outdoor plastic furniture

2-Post-consumer recycled material

3-Environmentally-friendly glass doorknocker-ready recycled glass also known as cullet

REPURPORSED RECYCLES

FURNITURE COMPANIES IN 2022

Sabai the USA, FSC certified sustainEco-friendly packaging & carsecondhand shop

Inside Weather

Best For | Made-to-order modular seating

Furniture Type | Living room, dining room, bedroom, office, couches crafted from up-cycled plastic bottles

Features | Made-to-order, made in the USA, carbon-negative, biodegradable packaging, FSC certified options

Price | Custom; payment plans available

4-Plastic fiber,nylon,polyester-Carpet

5-Recycled Timber

6-Post consumer plastic bottle & Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) container

“By achieving the goals of reuse, steps toward creating

reduce, and recycle, we can take creating a greener planet.”

ISSUE ANALYSIS

ISSUE 1

POOR RECYCLE knowledge

Goal analysis

ISSUE 2 TIRED FROM WORK

ISSUE 2

HAVE SOME EXTRA RECYCLES

ISSUE 4

PEDAGOGY CONCERN

GOAL1

LEARNING/RECYCLING

GOAL2

CHILLING/RECYCLING

GOAL3

EXCHANGING/REUSING

GOAL4

EDUCATING/RECYCLING

analysis

GOAL1

LEARNING/RECYCLING

USER GROUP

GOAL2 CHILLING/RECYCLING

GOAL3

EXCHANGING/REUSING

GOAL4

EDUCATING/RECYCLING

GROUP1 STUDENTS/VOLUNTEER

GROUP2 WORKERS

GROUP3 LOW-INCOME HOUSEHOLD

GROUP4 EDUCATOR

Precedent

1

Downtown Montreal

Using everyday materials, like water bottles, bubble wrap, plastic hangers and cardboard, found in recycling containers at a major shopping mall in downtown Montreal, The installation, called Fragile, hopes to raise awareness of the value of everyday materials and call attention to the fragility of our ecosystem.

2

Design Museum, London

This section, divided into ‘Precious Waste’ (celebrating the designers re-purposing leftover materials in their work) and ‘Post Waste’ (exploring ways in which waste can be re-purposed for design) is where things turn optimistic, highlighting how designers, makers and creatives are addressing the issue with practical solutions.

Art of Recycle-Non profitable

Application: Recycle Made Art Installation, Material For Reuse, Decoration And

Sell

Goal:We aim to promote access and equality by assisting all people to be inspired and empowered by using discarded, unwanted, and excess items as learning tools; creating generations to come to be more environmentally and socially conscious

PROGRAM

NON-PROFITABLE PROGRAM OF

Airlites

Application :Post consumer cup,box,bag

Goal: Post-consumer plastic, which is and all of us who are committed to bringing

SUSTAINABILITY

Airlites cup,box,bag for cafe a massive win for the environment bringing the circular economy to reality.

New raw

Application: Furniture for community space&donation for low-income household

Goal:3D printed benches are now bring created from plastic waste, as part of Amsterdam’s ‘Print Your City’ initiative. This program aims to transform plastic waste into trendy street furniture, reducing annual waste.

How to reuse those trash

Emphasize the recycle and reuse of waste through an artistic expression technique-art installation or domestic waste daily to fundamentally cut the use, reuse

PROGRAM BRIEF

PROGRAM OF ADVOCATING SUSTAINABILITY

trash in a ingenious and micro way?

or space decoration, and at the same time show the seriousness of pollution and the amount of people’s reuse the material and better do the Garbage sorting.

Targeted user+experiential

Visitor1-student Visitor2-worker/volunteer

• Morning jogging space is shrinking

• Lack a public, free gathering space like a community center

• Non-profit leisure and entertainment centers

• Over-commercialization

• Overpopulation

• Meet physical and mental health needs

• Balance between commercial zone with non-commercial zone

• Poor recycle knowledge

• Space for learning

• Free facilities

• Benefit students

• A immersive reading/Seating

• Parent-child recycle swap activities

• A series of hands-on activities and interaction.

• Education like some sustainability-related

• Turn a linear process of a material ing process that makes those thing that can be re-utilized.

• Learning about garbage sorting

• Enhancing the concept of environmental

• Maintain and influence more ities than to use them (because tion).

user+experiential tour

Visitor2-worker/volunteer Visitor3-mentally challenged student

reading/Seating space activities activities that needs collaboration sustainability-related pedagogy material into a cyclic, circulatthose recyclables end into somere-utilized. sorting environmental protection more people to care for public facil(because it is a non-profit organiza-

• Communal recycling space would be a good choice

• Instruction of turning underutilized material into a new thing

• Easy accessibility to public

• Convenient transportation

Young generations would love to hanging out here if it’s free.

• Cozy sitting space

• Mobile fair

• Inclusive, more equal place.

EXISTING Site condition

Site analysis

SITE-Dongtaikang Road, Guvancheng Hui

Hui District, Zhengzhou, Henan, China

BUILDING IN GOOD CONDITION

A RECENTLY ABANDONED MALL New appearance New appearance

Reborn of recycle

FROM LINEAR TO CIRCULAR life cycle

Stimulus

Reborn of recycle

FROM LINEAR TO CIRCULAR life cycle

Reborn of recycle

FROM LINEAR TO CIRCULAR life cycle

Reborn of recycle

FROM LINEAR TO CIRCULAR life cycle

Promote

Property: Theme

Storytelling

Vignettes: Theme

1 2 3

Mobile Booth

See-Through Shelve

Undulating Hall Way

Playful Zone

Stair Seat Intervention

Planting Zone

Green Cafe

Swap Booth

ZONE PLANNING: Atrium

Zhengzhou is the provincial capital of Henan, which is heavily dependent on the agricultural business. The common topo- terraced fields of that area, with their undulating pattern, are one of the prominent landscape features that served as the inspirational, design elements in my community center.

Reading& Recreation

Total: 4483sf

Occupency:

Total: 1120.8sf

Green Cafe Recycle Booth

Total: 2241.5sf

2-D PLANNING: Atrium

Soil-Planting Cafe

Decorative art installation

Decorative wall(visitor involved)

Recycle drop out(collect)

Art installation trade-in/Exhibition(swap booth)

Recycle exhibition(showroom)

CIRCULATION MAPPING

TEXT MAPPING

COLOR BAR/PROPORTION MAPPING

Material Board Atrium

“The central acrylic vessel is the heart of the community, where you can drop off your plastic waste and start working on your ideas at the workshop.”

4

“In addition, the Topo-inspired seats provide a semi-private and comfortable space to chat, relax, and rest.”

2 5

“The most eye-catching hanging shape of the topo-terraced fields

“Our coffee-retrieving space raced fields sign, marking the up your coffee and other beverages.”

hanging mobile mimics the fields from Henan, China.” features a prominent terthe area where you can pick beverages.”

“Welcome to The Planting CAFE! Here, you can receive a free plant or a free cup of coffee as a reward for finishing a plastic transformation design.”

“Our swap booth includes an exhibition storage area where you can display and exchange your gently used items.”

FLOOR PLAN

Salvaged Plastic

Recycled Moss Acrylic Installation

Acrylic For Art Installation

FSC

Wood

Acrylic

SECTIONS

Explode diagram

Swap booth

Trading, Reuse, Second Hand

rECYCLE vessel

Drop Off, Exhibition, Workshop

Planting Cafe

Planting, Cafe, Chill

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