Design-led Reuse Projects

A collection of architecture projects constructed with used materials.

Azkoitia Library

architecture: Estudio Beldarrainphoto: Jon Cazenave

reuse: Made from railway sleepers from the town's former railway station.

Lehel Monastery Garden

by Hild Und K

Azkoitia Library

architecture: Estudio Beldarrain
photo: Jon Cazenave

reuse: Made from railway sleepers from the town's former railway station.

Ecohawks Research Facility

architecture: Studio 804

Cargotecture's Studio 320

architecture: Hybrid Architecture
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reuse: Made from used shipping container and lined with reclaimed plywood.

Pittsburgh Glass Centre

architecture: Davis Gardner Gannon Pope Architecture, LLC
photo: Ed Massery

reuse: “About 94% of the project's shell and structure was reused, and about 14%, by cost, of the building materials were salvaged. These materials, either from the existing building or purchased from recycling vendors, include doors, windows (reused as interior windows), sinks, brick, and stone. Of the building's furniture and casework, 72% was salvaged and reused.

All new construction materials were evaluated and specified for recycled content and local manufacturing or extraction. As a result, 51% of the new building materials, by cost, were recycled, per LEED calculations, and 67% were manufactured within 500 miles of the project. Of these, 55% were also harvested or extracted within 500 miles of the site. Of the new wood used for the project, 73% was certified to have come from sustainably managed forests. In many cases plywood and framing lumber was reused several times as barricades and formwork before being installed in permanent locations in the building as blocking and rough carpentry elements.” https://www.aiatopten.org/node/158

Big Dig House

architecture: Single Speed Design
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reuse: Constructed from materials exhumed from a large highway project.

Big Dig House

architecture: Single Speed Design
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reuse: Constructed from materials exhumed from a large highway project.

Big Dig House

architecture: Single Speed Design
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reuse: Constructed from materials exhumed from a large highway project.

Villa Welpeloo

architecture: Superuse Studios
photo: Allard van der Hoek

reuse: “The main structure is made of steel beams that previously were part of a machine used for textile production, an industry that once was very important in the region. The wooden slats, which originally were used for cable reels at TKF, a local factory that produces cables, were collected to be used as the facade of the villa.” http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20210527000826

Studio MOA

architecture: GOM
photo: GOM

reuse: Constructed from used materials eg. doors

Wikado Playground

architecture: Superuse Studios
photo: Denis Guzzo

reuse: Constructed from discarded windmill parts.

Flydalsjuvet Rest Stop

architecture: 3RW Arkitekter + Smedsvig Landskap AS
photo: Landezine

reuse: “Several hundred year old timbered building modules were reused as framework for a new structure” https://landezine.com/flydalsjuvet/

Center for Design Research

architecture: Studio 804
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reuse: Constructed from the waste product from limestone manufacturing stone.

People's Pavilion

architecture: Bureau SLA and Overtreders W
photo: Filip Dujardin

reuse: Constructed with only borrowed or recycled materials.

Studio Raw Material

architecture: Studio Raw Material
photo: Studio Raw Material

reuse: Constructed with offcuts from an Indian marble quarry.

Center for Design Research

architecture: Studio 804
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reuse: Constructed from the waste product from limestone manufacturing stone.

CiWoCo

architecture: GAAGA
photo: GAAGA

reuse:

PATRIZIA School Dhoksan

architecture: Supertecture
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reuse: “Some of the materials used in the construction were donations from houses destroyed by the earthquake, thus symbolising the reconstruction.” https://www.patrizia.foundation/en/project/patrizia-school-dhoksan-nepal/