LEARNING FROM OTHERS
CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS [RE/USE] SPACE SPECULATION
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image // Anthony De Meyere
“a foreman IN FRONT OF the boarding pier and the stock of wood used for making boxes for delivering the machines.� image // sc erga, rue de courtrai in molenbeek 1915-1975
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2ND eDITION JUNE 2016 FOR MORE INFORMATION // http://www.metropolitan-estudio.eu/wiki/tour-et-taxi/
demolition image // quarsan // anspach center 2007 // brussels
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Deconstruction Training: Creating A Professional Standard image // THE REBUILDING CENTER, 3625 N MISSISSIPPI AVE, PORTLAND, OR, 97227, UNITED states
Brick by brick on the job market Casablanco is an active association for 15 years in the sector of social economy . Its objective is twofold: the socio-professional integration , mainly in construction, people in difficulty on the job market and improving living environment in Brussels region , mostly in poor neighborhoods. Throughout their educational journey to Casablanco, workers are supervised and trained on construction sites . They also attend courses related to their career plans. After a trip to Casablanco, they are ready to find sustainable employment, mainly in the construction sector.
image // jEROME HUBERT PHOTOGRAPH // CASABLANCO // BRUSSELS
DECONSTRUCTION WORKER ON A ROOFTOP Since 1993, architects, contractors and building owners have relied on TRP [THE REUSE people] to keep reusable and recyclable building materials out of overburdened landfills. / TRP has deconstructed over 2,000 houses and other buildings to salvage reusable materials. / TRP has diverted over 350,000 tons of reusable materials from landfills. / TRP has trained over 500 unemployed, underemployed and disadvantaged workers. / TRP has trained over 71 contractors, who in turn created needed construction jobs. image // tHE REUSE PEOPLE // SAN FRANCISCO
Reusable building materials salvaged from old sites Rotor Deconstruction is a young actor in the business of salvaged building components. THEIR team is skilled in dismantling on building sites, conditioning, transporting, cleaning and preparing for sale a large variety of materials. they collaborate with building and demolition contractors, architects, municipalities and property management companies. image // rOTOR DECONSTRUCTION // BRUSSELS
removal of tiles image // Rotor asbl // brussels
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re/use wood structure from a disintegrating century-old country church Rural Studio is an undergraduate program of the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture at Auburn University. created by samuel mockbee in 1993 to provide a link to pratice in architecture studies its aim is to built for people of Hale County, a poor rural community. In its early years actors of the studio has developed several practices of reused materials. image // antioch baptist church 2008 // Rural Studio // us
Office carpet image // Lucy’s house 2002 // Rural Studio //us
Wood Bricks this is Folly for a Flyover, a structure built in under four weeks, its materials costing a total of ÂŁ20,000 The structure is made from railway sleepers sawn into bricks. image // FOLLY FOR A FLYOVER // assemble // beneath the A12 near Hackney Wick / east london
CEB (compressed earth blocks) workshop for the construction of the new Regional house of town Edegem, Antwerp. they have tested different types of earth from this region, and built a CEB arch prototype image // bc architects & studies // brussels
Handmade concrete tiles image // yardhouse // Assemble // uk
LEONTINE VAN LEEUWEN DEALER SPECIALIZED IN WOOD OF CONSTRUCTION image // http://opalis.be/fr/revendeurs/leontine-van-leeuwen // be
“steenschotten� These wood panels are initially used as drying media in the production of concrete blocks. After 4 or 5 years of use, they are disqualified and end up on the second hand market. image // Horse stack // leontine van leeuwen // BE
Saga in a mission in South Africa where they spent six months designing and building a kindergarden in a township, for and with the community of Joe Slovo. image // collectif saga // france
Wikado Children’s Playground from Wind Turbines Wings image // 2012 Architecten [Superuse Studios] // Meidoornstraat, Rotterdam, NL / 2008
Brasserie Belle-Vue From the initial phase of the project, the desire to reuse some of the materials from the demolition and renovation was therefore present. An initial inventory was conducted by the developer and architect. The list of materials for reuse / recycling was inserted into Specifications (cahier des charges) and was the subject of a meeting between the contractor and the architect. image // cooperative L’escaut + democo + de meuter // brussels
pavillon circulaire the “Circular Pavilion� is an experimental architecture built in Paris during the cop 21 with reused materials (wooden doors recovered from an apartment building, used wooden exhibition panels, second hand insulating board, discarded furniture, obsolete street lights,...). image // encore heureux // france
Casa Pollo Architectural practice collaborates with an international construction fair and a cultural festival to propose a new cheap type of susceptible housing to be built collectively and located in residential areas. Includes: removable steel structure, wood “double T“ beams, sandwich panel (polystyrenehydrophobic-board OSB), auxiliary steel structures, aluminum frames, sandwich panels (steel-polyurethane-steel), PVC plastic sheet, coffered PVC, cellular polycarbonate, glass and aluminum foil-polyethylene-aluminum; and coordination of friends, family or colleagues forassembling the prototype in reduced time with the machinery and auxiliary equipmentrequired. image // Recetas urbanas // 2005 // Barcelona
INSTITUTIONAL PROSTHESIS 2 (EACC) Second hand structures used to stabilize the exterior walls and recycled plastic cases (normally used in concrete casting) used in a different way. image // Recetas urbanas // 2005 // castellon
YELLOW SUBMARINE TEMPORARY SETUPS TO ADDRESS HOUSING ISSUES IN GERMANY image // Petruskeviciute, Naruseviciute, Cleary // shabby shabby apartment by raumlabor// germany
re/use of a variety of broken construction materials such as scaffolding steel pipes, sheet metals... image // RE-AINBOW //H&P Architects
actlab reusing building image // bellastock // france
[s’approvisionner] image // page 204 // matière grise / matériaux / réemploi / architecture // editions du pavillon de l’arsenal / 2014
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Remarkable elements recovered from architecture slated for demolition they help contractors and building owners to find markets for salvaged materials, organise large scale extraction operations, advise design teams assessing the feasibility of on-site reuse strategies and help source locally available materials. image // Rotor deconstruction created in 2015 // warehouse // Vilvoorde Be
the rebuilding center a non-profit used building material center image // THE REBUILDING CENTER, 3625 N MISSISSIPPI AVE, PORTLAND, OR, 97227, UNITED states
Gouthier sprl, which is situated in the area of La Louvière was created 40 years from now and presents itself as a huge melting pot of materials. image // research team // GOUTHIER sprl// be
“The rose Farm� This family business founded in 1983 is a specialist of doors from before the 50s. Aremat sells a range of different materials including blue stone and aok beams. image // research team // Aremat // be
the reuse warehouse Reclaimed Lumber and Architectural Salvage in Durham NC image // building supply durham NC // US
reclaimed lumber The reuse warehouse image // building supply durham NC // US
9th session of the team AuRA Grands Ateliers of Villefontaine image // prototype terra 2016 // france
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The reintegration pole by La FABRIK (Recyclart vwz) a rehabilitation and training workshop in carpentry and metalwork image // dewereldmorgen.be // recyclart.be/fr/fabrik // brussels
THE BIG 5 INTERNATIONAL BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION SHOW THE LARGEST CONSTRUCTION EVENT IN THE MIDDLE EAST image // Big 5 construction exhibition
Scientific and technical center construction New implementing methods of foundations, monitoring of geotechnical structures, geothermal, wood construction elements hybrid and metal building, concrete high-performance, these are the themes studied in 2012 by CSEC in geotechnics and structures. image // top/ Steve Urbon - Hathaway News Service //down/ Activity Report 2012 // cstc // materials testing facility //Brussels
Steel sections image // Atelier dynamo // Interior architect // brussels
workshop Stone assembly image // Van den Weghe // BE
stock stone plates image // Van den Weghe // BE
Workspace image // Van den Weghe // BE
stone stock image // Van den Weghe // BE
structural steel construction workshop image // Volt tournages // fr
woodwork workshop image // Volt tournages // fr
EXPERIMENTATION AND ASSEMBLY workspace First experiment in the #grand ateliers of L’Isle d’Abeau for Team #AuRA composed of students of Grenoble architecture schools and Lyon as well as electric IUT students of Grenoble and the engineering school ENSE3. 9th session of the team AuRA Grands Ateliers of Villefontaine image // prototype terra 2016 // france
7th session of the team AuRA Grands Ateliers of Villefontaine image // prototype terra 2016 // france
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About the work process of the studio/ The Metropolitan e-Studio project Integrated urban design e-studio for XXIst century sustainable metropolitan region While E-learning is now widespread across the world, there exist very few applications of internet based training in the field of architecture and urbanism. The synthetic and prospective method of learning by design seems still reluctant to the use of internet technology. This project will develop a cross-cultural, transdisciplinary and international method of learning by design enlarging the learning environnment of the local urban design studio through the introduction of virtual learning environments (VLE). From february and march 2016 and 2017 this E-studio will actively interconnect 15 students and 2 up to 3 tutors from three different urban design studios with a network of experts and professionals. The combination of analysis and design training by small groups of mixed students from three different universities will allow them to develop skills in the field of communication, english language, digital and internet technology. On the long term the E-studio platform and methodology is expected to become an international active interface and archive improving the pedagogy and programme of architecture and urbanism curriculum.
SITE/ http://www.metropolitan-estudio.eu/
Laboratories and participants/ Laboratory on Urbanism, Infrastructure and Ecologies (LoUIsE), Faculty of Architecture,Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) - Geoffrey Grulois (coordinator), Nadia Casabella, Marco Ranzato, Andrea Bortlotti Department of Architecture and Arts, Università Iuav di Venezia (IUAV) - Maria Chiara Tosi (coordinator), Cristina Renzoni Laboratory of Urbanism of Barcelona (LUB), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) - Carles Crosas (coordinator), Jorge Perea
Font/ For this paper we used the open source cooper hewitt font : http://www.cooperhewitt.org/open-source-at-cooper-hewitt/cooper-hewitt-the-typefaceby-chester-jenkins/
PARTNERS OF THE E-STUDIO/
LEARNING FROM OTHERS COMMISSIONED BY/ Lacambre Horta ULB Studio SPACE SPECULATION & The Metropolitan e-Studio project 2016 IUAV-ETSAB-ULB
RESEARCH TEAM/ BXL Tour et Taxis MEMBER/ GONรงALVES MARCO
CREDITS/ All images are either owned by the research team or the owners are mentioned bellow each one. All data is collected by our team and represents our foundation for the development of our collective studio project: T.I.R]E[USE
GONçALVES « Tout ce que je fais ici, c’est pour mieux dormir. » Richard Greaves image // Richard Greaves & Mario del Curto // 1952 montréal