Crafting Circularity: Rethinking Sustainable Design and Construction in Architecture Education asks how architecture schools can respond meaningfully to the climate crisis by teaching students to design from what already exists.
About This Book
The book proposes 'availability-based design'—an approach that starts from existing materials and structures rather than extracting new ones. It documents an Erasmus+ collaboration among five European architecture schools and reflects on design-and-build workshops held in Amsterdam, Trondheim and Volos.
Each workshop explored a different side of circular practice: sourcing and understanding materials, reusing components and reusing whole structures. Through hands-on work with reclaimed material and real construction constraints, the book shows how circular thinking can move to the centre of the design studio.
Key Features
- Documents a five-school European education project
- Workshops in Amsterdam, Trondheim and Volos
- Covers material sourcing, component reuse and structural reuse
- Illustrated throughout with workshop documentation
What You'll Discover
- What 'availability-based design' means in practice
- How design-and-build workshops teach circular thinking
- Working with reclaimed materials and real constraints
- Models for embedding reuse in architecture curricula
About the Author
Mario Rinke and Frederik Vandyck edit the volume, drawing together the reflections of the teachers and students from the five European architecture schools behind the Crafting Circularity project.
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Dimensions: 180 × 270 mm
- Pages: 192
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783986123338
- Publisher: JOVIS
Perfect For: Architecture educators, students and practitioners interested in reuse, circular construction and studio teaching.