STRATEGIES OF THE PROGRAM

In the edition of Imminent Commons 2017, cured by Alejandro Zaera-Polo and Hyungmin Pai, authors elaborated strategies more or less diffuse to maximize the use of existing or new spaces through their program settings. The common ambition to all the strategies described is assuring the maximum life-time possible for space.

This approach appears to be an alternative to achieve circularity by controlling the whole life-cycle of a building and its parts. ‘Sharing Platform’ is one of the five circular economic models suggested by Peter Lacy and Jacob Rutqvist‘ in Waste to Wealth’ (2015). It consists of extending the use of the building by sharing its parts maximizing the use of the building over time. Possibly the building requires spacial flexibility to respond to diverse users demands. Schools, Community, Co-workers and many more can assure that space will find its functionality in the future, performing in fact as a public asset.

Haven, diagram of highly-accessible platforms.

Scheme ‘Sharing Platform’ from Lacy, Peter, and Jakob Rutqvist. Waste to wealth : the circular economy advantage. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.