ReFAB: Urban Mining MakerSpace in Marineterrein Amsterdam

Objective of the project is the design of a generic, local-based manufacturing facility, ReFab, which is constructed from salvaged materials and operates through collective effort and interactive cultivation in the employment of refuse as raw material input in advanced production processes. These disposed elements can, if elaborated in proper...

The Filament Factory: Building from Waste

Chicago is the third largest city in the US, but is also in the bottom 10 worst recycling cities. Building on the research done to revitalize old industrial area's of Chicago, the "Filament Factory" is a building that takes an active step to rethinking the way plastic is used and recycled. Today over 61% of plastic is dumped on landfills where...