Thursday 16 February 2012

Design for Disassembly

Today we had a workshop, which looked at the importance of having disassembly in mind throughout the design process and how we manage waste at the end of a building/ a piece of architecture's life cycle.

By the end of the workshop we came up with 5 principles for disassembly for our installation.

1. Avoid drilling and screwing in favour of friction and slotting where possible.
2. Sell our materials onwards after we have finished with them e.g. sell for scrap metal
3. Only join like metals
4. Negotiate to borrow materials as opposed to buying them
5. Utilise modular design.

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