To Combat Climate Change, Architecture Needs a Wakeup Call
What would architecture be like if design began from a place not of unlimited imagination and abundance, but rather one of economic and material scarcity?
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What would architecture be like if design began from a place not of unlimited imagination and abundance, but rather one of economic and material scarcity?
Testbeds, a project led by New Affilliates, recycles mock-ups once treated as construction waste into investments in public space.
New Affiliates and Samuel Stewart-Halevy have created a prototype of their Testbeds project, which repurposes models used for large architectural projects.
A new project from New York-based duo New Affiliates is making headlines in the Queens neighborhood of Edgemere, where architects Ivi Diamantopoulou and Jaffer Kolb have invented a radical new way of reusing one of the design processes’ most wasteful customs – discarded architectural mock-ups...
A new program to reuse architectural mock-ups in community gardens is gaining interest as a way to keep them out of the landfill.