Make City Festival in Berlin

Make City Festival in Berlin

Group exhibition.

Recycle chalkboards are being replaced by smart-boards in schools across so they became a common ground  for the exhibition with:
bureau SLA [NL]   Superuse Studios [NL]  Refunc [NL/DE]

Join us for a talk by Peter Van Asshe.
30.6 // 11:00 |  Warnitzer Str. 26 | Berlin

People’s Pavilion | Dutch Design Week 2017

People’s Pavilion | Dutch Design Week 2017

Text: Bureau SLA | Photography courtesy of Filip Dujardin and Bureau SLA

People’s Pavilion won the Frame Awards in category Sustainable Design, The Dutch Design Awards in the category Habitat, and the ARC18 Innovation Award. 

The People’s Pavilion is designed to promote the value of a closed-loop, or “circular”, construction system, which involves thinking beyond the life of the building, so that little or no waste is produced as a result.

 

The pavilion is a design statement of the new circular economy, a 100% circular building where no building materials are lost in construction. The designers of bureau SLA and Overtreders W have accomplished this with a radical new approach: all of the materials needed to make the 250 m2 building are borrowed. Not only materials from traditional suppliers and producers, but also from Eindhoven residents themselves. And to be clear, it’s not 70% or 80% or even 95%, but 100% of the materials: concrete and wooden beams, lighting, facade elements, glass roof, recycled plastic cladding, even the Pavilion’s glass roof, all of which will be returned completely unharmed – with one special exception – to the owners following the DDW.

The exception? The striking colored tiles that make up the Pavilion’s upper facade, made from plastic household waste materials collected by Eindhoven residents, will be distributed among those very residents at the end of DDW. 100% borrowed means a construction site without screws, glue, drills or saws. This, in turn, leads to a new design language: the People’s Pavilion reveals a new future for sustainable building: a powerful design with new collaborations and intelligent construction methods.

Facts & figures

design: bureau SLA & Overtreders W
designers: Peter van Assche, Hester van Dijk, Reinder Bakker
client: Dutch Design Foundation
structural engineering: Arup
urban Mining advies: New Horizon
main builder: Ham & Sybesma, Amsterdam

From trash to tile: 100% plastic waste

Facade claddings meet high technical demands. Every cladding has to be completely wind- and waterproof. It has to protect against fire and last in extreme weather conditions. It doesn’t come as a surprise that the development of true sustainable facade materials has been proven difficult. Recently, the company Pretty Plastic has developed a tile that consists entirely of recycled PVC building material waste. Because only waste streams are being used in the production process every tile is slightly different, which gives facades a natural look. The tiles are fully fireproof certified and can be applied on any building. By both cleaning up waste streams and producing a cladding material that can be endlessly recycled in the future, the Pretty Plastic tile truely contributes to a circular economy: from trash to tile. Over and over again.

Pretty Plastic aims to produce cladding products made of upcycled plastic waste that look great are safe in use, easy to apply, and last forever.

Pretty Plastic contributes to a circular economy where waste does not exist and raw materials are used over and over again.

The Cladding material from upcycled plastic is for sale via the Pretty Plastic website.

Miniere Urbane Exhibition

Miniere Urbane Exhibition

MINIERE   URBANE   ( Urban  Mining )

A group exhibition realized in collaboration with Giacimenti Urbani and Harvest Map Italy will be at the at the fair FA’ LA COSA GIUSTA in Milan. 

Fa’ la cosa giusta! is the national fair of conscious consumption and sustainable lifestyles in Italy. An event promoted and organised by Terre di Mezzo, being held in Milan, every March, since 2004. F

Recent years have been marked by an increasing consumers’ awareness about their role in making “green choices” to guarantee a sustainable growth of the planet. In Italy as well as worldwide, the quest for products and services that combine quality and innovation with respect for people and the environment is gaining more and more attention. Since its launch in 2004, Fa’ la cosa giusta! has aimed at matching demand and supply, and today it is widely recognised as the national benchmark for conscious consumption and sustainable lifestyles. The exhibiton will display a combination of photo prints and samples of reclamed materials.

MINIERE URBANE

Group exhibition

2018.03   23th 24th 25th

FA’ LA COSA GIUSTA!

FIERA MILANO CITY | MM PORTELLO, 20149

MILAN | IT

Below: one of the photos selected for this exhibition from the series ‘Live from the basement’
Rotterdam 2012  © Denis Guzzo

Above: one of the photos selected for this exhibition from the Recycling center in The Hague NL
2017 © Denis Guzzo

Trash to Treasure LAB | Shenzen

Trash to Treasure LAB | Shenzen

Superuse exhibit in Shenzhen: Trash to Treasure LAB

Trash to treasure lab shows the potential of waste for design and architecture. It includes stacks of available waste material flows in the region of Shenzhen. Next to this, the lab displays inspiring examples of design with waste by Superuse studios and several tools that help to apply the materials for designers.

The material on display is a tiny fraction of the vast volumes industry produces and currently generates little or negative value. The series of designs by Superuse Studios prove there’s a huge creative field to be explored and the potential for new value both economically, socially, and for our environment.

Their waste service desk helps those who currently seek more valuable application of their material and invites everyone to start designing the circular economy.

BI-CITY  BIENNALE  OF URBANISM / ARCHITECTURE  |  SHENZHEN
2015.11 / 2016.02