Amstel III - The Reuse City

Amstel III - The Reuse City: Implementing urban mining as a tool to transform vacant office buildings, reusing 100% of the existing building components.

Lukkes, Dominik (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft Architectural Engineering +Technology)

Parravicini, Mauro (mentor)
van der Zaag, Engbert (graduation committee)
Luscuere, Peter (graduation committee)

Delft University of Technology

2019-06-28

Our excessive need for new building materials is causing our natural material stock to be depleted at an alarming rate. What happens if our most common building materials can no longer be acquired? This thesis shows the potential in reusing buildings and the components they comprise of by setting an example. An existing office building is transformed and expanded, where almost all building components the building currently is comprised of are reused, provided that they add to the building’s aesthetic, functional and environmental value. Additionally, surrounding buildings that are up for demolition serve as material resources from which additionally needed building components are harvested. The process of urban mining shall serve as a tool to make this possible.

Reuse
Building component
Urban mining
Circularity
Transformation

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Student theses

master thesis

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