2012Architecten
Thursday 30 October 2008, 6:30pm
2012Architecten
2012Architecten is a Rotterdam based architecture office that utilises the contextual potential for design. This specific potential is inherent in the existing environment, energy resources or various waste materials.
2012Architecten consider ‘reuse’ to be an integral design strategy. By taking the existing characteristics of the waste material into account in the early stages of the design, innovative applications and surprising forms are created. The design process is not seen as linear but rather as one phase in a continuous cycle of creation and re-creation.
In this lecture 2012Architecten explain how they manage to find “waste” materials using the harvest-map and how they intergrate their findings in their designs. Inspiring projects will be shown. Duchi, the shoe-shop in the Hague made with reclaimed carglass windows and leftovers from a window frame factory. Worm@VOC, the design of a masterplan for temporary residence for an experimental multimediacentre WORM. The Miele Space Station, the experiment with white-goods which ended up in Espressobar Sterk. And of course Holland’s first waste Villa, Villa Welpeloo in Enschede will be treated.
Links:
Superuse by 2012Architecten (see www.010publishers.nl) | www.superuse.org
A recent documentary on 2012Architecten Superuse (narrated by Brad Pitt) can be found on http://www.pbs.org/e2/episodes/306_super_use_trailer.html
Superuse by 2012Architecten
Hosted by Sandra Denicke-Polcher
