Circularity
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about circularity
News • Innovations • 6 Feb 2024
Holcim and partners launch Phoenix, a pioneering and circular 3D printed concrete bridge
Swiss-based global building materials and aggregates company Holcim has launched Phoenix, a pioneering and circular 3D printed concrete bridge. Built in partnership with the Block Research Group (BRG) at the Institute of Technology in Architecture at ETH Zürich, Zaha Hadid Architects Computation and Design Group (ZHA CODE), and incremental3D, Phoenix demonstrates the interplay between low-carbon and circular technologies in infrastructural development.
Vincent Delesvaux
Launched at Holcim’s recently inaugurated innovation hub in Lyon, France, Phoenix demonstrates an approach to innovative and sustainable building solutions. The project is an evolution of Striatus, an earlier 3D printed concrete bridge developed by... More
News • News • 27 Dec 2023
MVRDV exhibition showcases Shenzhen Women & Children’s Centre as a model of adaptive reuse
ReviveR is a new exhibition by the international architectural firm MVRDV that explores Shenzhen Women & Children’s Centre as a circular manifesto for a low-carbon, child-friendly city. The exhibition takes place at the Shenzhen Women & Children’s Centre, a recently transformed tower building in the southern Chinese city’s Futian District. An educational endeavor, ReviveR considers a number of narratives that surround the building, from the importance of social and interactive environments for adults and children alike to the significance of the adaptive reuse of buildings as a way of reducing carbon emissions, following the principles of circularity.
Zhang Chao
Zhang Chao
MVRDV completed the tra... More
News • News • 14 Jul 2023
Residential building 360 Degrees realized with 152 tons of demolition waste
On the Grasweg in Amsterdam-North, residential building 360 Degrees has been completed. The complex, designed by Studioninedots, consists of two towers connected by a cascading podium. The bricks used were made from over 152 tons of demolition waste.
Sebastian van Damme
Sebastian van Damme
360 Degrees stands at the end of Grass Road, across from the neighborhood built according to the Cityplot plan. The design for the 110-apartment residential building was developed integrally with Cityplot and shares the same ambitions for flexibility, circularity and social sustainability, reports Studioninedots.
Sebastian van Damme
The firm's ambition was to design an all-sided residential building that has a different appearan... More
Project • By Robbrecht en Daem architecten • Pavilions
Mies van der Rohe 1:1 Model Golfclubhaus
In the summer of 2013 Robbrecht en Daem architecten realizes a temporary pavilion based on a competition design by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe from 1930. The design, a clubhouse for a golf course in the gently rolling countryside around the former industrial city of Krefeld, Germany, was never built at the time it was designed. Christiane Lange, art historian and curator for ProjektMIK, invited Robbrecht en Daem architecten to design an objet d'architecture on the basis of the unpublished historical sketches of the project that were found in the Mies van der Rohe Archive (MoMA) in New York.
Thomas Hick
Thomas Hick
The temporary installation resulting from this commission was open for viewing from 26 May to 27 October 2013 at the ori... More
Project • By Robbrecht en Daem architecten • Libraries
Boekentoren - University Library
The conservation project for the Book Tower aims at restoring the historical site of the University Library, situated in the lively quartier Latin of Ghent, meanwhile at transforming it into a library for the 21st Century. The design unites the ambitions of the University to respectfully repair the monumental site to its original condition, but also to render it a contemporary house for a great diversity of users and for the valuable own collection of the institute.
Kristien Daem
The Ghent University Library is internationally renowned for its ‘heritage collection’ of manuscripts, books, coins, curiosa, newspapers and magazines. The study into the conservation project revealed that the conservation of these precious object... More