Shuang Feng \ Tianze Wu SCI-Arc Graduate Thesis Design Advisor: Peter Testa HT Advisor: Erik GhenoiuSUMMER2022SCI-Arc version.02 OUTHOUSEOFANDHOME
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SPATIAL MODEL: Spatial models that exist in the factory and warehouse typology have always been organized around efficiency and consumerism. A series of standard classification systems are established to manage categorizable materials and products.Traditional Home supply stores are always organized in a warehouse of uniform rows with over-scaled shelves. With the intervention of artificial intelligence, factories like Amazon started to use robots to sort and distribute their products. Both spatial models are based on the standardization of inventories and meet Whenefficiency.theinventories can’t fall into predetermined categories, how will they influence the spatial organization? Materials that come from the demolition of buildings, construction waste, and landfills are considered non-standard materials that become the changing inventory being updated regularly. They open new possible spatial layouts for us to rethink the “traditional” warehouses, material sourcing, labor practices, and consumer economies.BUSINES
THESIS STATEMENT
IDEA: As designers, we take the position not only is there an opportunity for a new aesthetics of upcycling but potential business models that move between physical and digital platforms, or what may be called
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EveryWASTE:year,as much as 30% of all building materials delivered to a typical construction site can end up as waste. Construction and demolition projects filled U.S. landfills with almost 145 million tons of waste in 2018. The U.S. generated over 600 million tons of construction-related waste in 2018. 23% of the national waste stream is estimated to be C&D waste. Annual construction waste is expected to reach 2.2 billion tons globally by 2025. Over the past several years, new laws and consumer demand are shifting from a linear economy of waste to a circular economy with upcycling.
Our thesis title is “OUT OF HOUSE & HOME”. The Thesis situates itself within the idea of the reconfigurability and transformation of spatial models with non-standard materials (particularly upcycled materials from C&D waste) and assumes a business model around this idea. It includes 5 different chapters, 1. The C&D waste; 2. The spatial Organization; 3. The business model; 4. The DEMO and finally, the Interface.C&D
TheDEMOworld.ASSEMBLE:intentionistolet this digital platform work with existing C&D waste and explore the possibilities of spatial layouts and how architectural assets can be processed digitally, and eventually start to learn from these models and apply them to the real world.
5 phygital retail. Current business models like Rotor DC or Restado, are more like a database that gathered information on C&D waste, soon-to-bedemolished projects, and manuals on how to deal with these salvaged materials, some may provide additional services (clean, rent, dismantle, etc.). However, in their models, the customers are not involved in the process after they placed an order. While in our case, we are introducing a digital platform/tool that would help them to have a more straightforward idea of how they can design and create their own version.INTERFACE:First,youwill see this loading window with robots sorting waste using their artificial intelligence brain. The interface constantly shows the different ways space may be arranged; some upcycled demos and samples (from discrete pieces to new assemblies put together by upcycled material) that allow people to construct by themselves and serves as a virtual world for them to view materials, configurations, and so on.Instead of space planned and fixed in advance of material inventories, we REVERSE the logic and customize layouts depending on the changing inventory of upcycled materials. By making certain real-world rules, for example, clearances for forklifts or robots to move around the space, adding origin information to each piece, or applying construction rules, such as certain pieces are too weak to be wall elements, not enough support, etc). In our digital interface, people can have a deeper relationship be tween the digital and physical material
HOME REMODEL 6 Spatial Organization / Upcycle / Non-Standard / Material Practice / Demolition & Construction Waste / Landfill / Reclaimation / Ecology / New Form of Luxury / Reconfigurability
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72% homeowners remodeled their interior in 2020. More than 61% of them did home system upgrades since 2015. As much as 57% homeowners renovated their outdoor spaces starting 2015. More than 56% of all of all surveyed homeowners upgraded the exterior of their houses each year from 2015 till now.
WASTE 8 EPA estimated that 600 million tons of C&D debris were generated in the United States in 2018. C&D waste generation in the U.S. increased by 342% from 1990 to 2018. As much as 30% of all building materials delivered to a typical construction site can end up as waste. More than 75% of all construction waste from wood, drywall, asphalt shingles, bricks and clay tiles ends up in 2018landfills.~146.1 million tons of MSW was land-Plasticsfilled 18% -Paper -Rubber,leather,textiles12% 11%
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Morocco Chengdu, China Atlanta, United States RECLAIMATION YARDS
Casablanca,
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Store / Factory / Musuem Waste as Resources Building @ End of Life Cycle Demolition MATERIAL ECOLOGY CHART
13 Applied to Other Projects Digital Learning Tool Custom Assembly
TYPE: EXISTING MODELS Home Depot Universal LayoutLoading Loading 350 feet 400 feet 185 feet feet300feet200 10Parking:ftx25 ft /unit 400 units in total 10Parking:ftx20 ft /unit 380 units in total feet350 Lowe’s Universal Layout
15 Loading 1100 feet feet780 Amazon Automated System Typical Home Depot Store Plan Amazon Fulfillment Center with Kiva
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PROMPT TO CHANGE TYPE
Pieces disassembled from current studio case study - Lieb House, as potential upcycled pieces.
Potential Layouts depend on various inventories.
17 BEST stores
“The program by the city of Paris was too large for the site, leaving no space for a park. The proposed project is not for a definitive park, but for a method thatcombining programmatic instability with architectural specificity - will eventually generate a park.”
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PRECEDENTS
Parc De La Villette -
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Technologies like robotic palettes are used in fulfillment centers like Amazon, and we anticipate some of these technologies moving into consumer space and retail markets.
22INTERFACE / GAME Everyone Is Architecture-You+Pea
23 The Fulfillment City - Honghao Du, Long Tan, Jue Wang, Qian Zang
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26DISASSEMBLE & REASSEMBLE Assembly 01
27 Assembly 02
28 Assembly 03 Assembly 05 Assembly 04 Assembly 06 DISASSEMBLE & REASSEMBLE
29 Assembly 09 Assembly 08Assembly 07 Assembly 10
30FORMAT Online Ordering Interface
Retail
Home
Phygital - Repot
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