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For my final year concept, I would 1.0 like to delve into the wide arching subject of sustainability, focusing on plant waste and the circular economy. I intend to create a multigenerational platform from which to stimulate the mind about our place as human beings within the context of the natural world, a place to consider our position and ultimately, our responsibility globally. Within this sphere I will investigate our role as designers and how we influence lifestyles, with a primary focus on plant waste and sustainability. My concept offers a space to come and learn about the alternative uses of plant waste and how we can benefit from these products in our day-today life; how the impact of using them, rather than wasting them can affect the future of the planet.

I would like to consider my building as contextual history when developing my concept and connecting the two via its redevelopment. The Bellgrove Cattle Market site was originally a space for trading, sorting, and packaging meat. Initially, the cattle trade was quite a sustainable practice; the animal was killed, butchered for meat from nose to tail and then placed in minimal paper packaging. The initial waste created was then recycled into other objects such as leather and broth. When this abattoir was no longer needed it was abandoned as the new linear farming and butchering processes came into practice which moved away from the original less wasteful model.