Designing Out Waste - Top 5.

In May 2009, the Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP), working in partnership with the Royal institute of British Architects (RIBA), launched the Designing out Waste competition. Having explored the ideas that were submitted and examining the design requirements, I could use these as sources of inspiration during the design process of my own work.

5 Principles of Designing out Waste: 

1. Design for Reuse and Recovery;
2. Design for Off Site Construction;
3. Design for Materials Optimisation;
4. Design for Waste Efficient Procurement;
5. Design for Deconstruction and Flexibility

1) Architect: Pohkit Goh

       Key Designing out Waste features:

Proposal for office development

• Innovative use of reclaimed materials and off site fabrication, modern methods of construction. 
• Practical, cost effective solutions to maximise materials resource efficiency, whilst retaining architectural merit.
• Flexible building design suitable for sites of different layouts and size, as well as being adaptable to future end-user requirements.
• Designed for rapid on site assembly and future deconstruction

 2) Engineer: Buro Happold Ltd
        Key Designing out Waste features:

• Reuse and renovation of existing foundations, materials and on site buildings.
• Foundation systems and designs to reduce excavation.
• Off site manufacture of kit of parts to enable fast & easy assembly.
• Buildings designed to be adaptable to future end-user requirements.

3) Engineer/Landscape Architect: Battle McCarthy Ltd
         Key Designing out Waste features:

• Materials resource efficiency pursued with architectural intent through an unusual concept.
• Site excavation minimised - cut and fill policy with spoil used to anchor perimeter fabric.
• Removal and reuse of inflatable air form membrane.

4) Architect: Open Arch Ltd

       Key Designing out Waste features

• Modular, flexible pod system which can be used for a variety of purposes, in isolation or as part of a larger scheme, without compromising function or aesthetics.
• Site excavation and groundworks minimised, reuse of subsoil in rammed earth walls.
• “Soft” landscaping barriers used instead of “hard” sctructures.

5) Student: Svetlana Khidirova
(The Bartlett, University College London)       Key Designing out Waste features

• Reduction of waste through the reuse and recovery of redundant industrial artefacts

Sources: wrap.org.uk; architecture.com