Reuse architecture

Adaptive reuse, or adaptive re-use in architecture, is the process of repurposing buildings that have outlived their original purposes for different reasons and adapting them to receive new different uses or functions while at the same time retaining and emphasizing their historic features.

Bureau SLA and Overtreders W used only borrowed or recycled materials for this Dutch Design Week pavilion, the venue for Good Design for a Bad World

public space: European Prize for Urban Public Space

Image 7 of 10 from gallery of Deconstruct, Do Not Demolish: The Practice of Reuse of Materials in Architecture. Axonométrica do Pavilhão Japonês na Bienal de Arquitetura de Veneza 2021. Image © DDAA + village®

Image 4 of 4 from gallery of Giving Demolished Building Materials a New Life through Recycling. Resource Rows, which used panels of brickwork taken from the demolition of Copenhagen’s Carlsberg brewery.. Image Courtesy of Lendager Group

Image 10 of 15 from gallery of Reduce, Reuse and Recycle: the Three R's Rule Applied to Architecture. People's Pavilion / bureau SLA + Overtreders W. Image: © Filip Dujardin

Illustration, Architecture

How carefully dismantling buildings and using their elements to produce new structures can positively impact the environment and reduce waste.

Image 3 of 11 from gallery of The Paris Researcher Pioneering a New Way to Recycle Building Materials. In Situ Recycling at Le Parissy, Paris (from top to bottom): Dismount the granite slabs. Pulverize the stone. Sift it on-site, incorporating it into terrazzo. Install the new terrazzo product.. Image © Anna Saint Pierre

Monasteries, warehouses and factories given radical second lives this year