© Amelyn Ng 2024
WASTE/WORKS
teachingYEAR:
Spring 2024
TYPE:
Advanced studio, RISD Architecture, Fall 2023. Mix of M.Arch and B.Arch students.
COLLABORATOR:
RISD Nature Lab
- construction cooking and biomaterial experiments
RELATED:
202309_DEPOT
Spring 2024
TYPE:
Advanced studio, RISD Architecture, Fall 2023. Mix of M.Arch and B.Arch students.
COLLABORATOR:
RISD Nature Lab
- construction cooking and biomaterial experiments
RELATED:
202309_DEPOT
INFO:
This studio investigates the metabolic material economies of construction and demolition (C&D) waste, and dreams of sustainable building labor futures amid the climate crisis.
As the built environment’s relationships with materiality are reoriented from resource (capitalist extraction of ‘cheap nature’) to resourcefulness (creative material management), we will leverage its waste streams and byproducts toward more circular institutions, more social ‘supply chains,’ and more environmentally energetic architectures.
This studio investigates the metabolic material economies of construction and demolition (C&D) waste, and dreams of sustainable building labor futures amid the climate crisis.
As the built environment’s relationships with materiality are reoriented from resource (capitalist extraction of ‘cheap nature’) to resourcefulness (creative material management), we will leverage its waste streams and byproducts toward more circular institutions, more social ‘supply chains,’ and more environmentally energetic architectures.
Taking resourcefulness as an ethos, the studio expects students to get creative with material sourcing and explore low-footprint approaches to model-making. Prepare to get your hands dirty!