Case Study 3 | Interior Building Element
‘Once burned wood, now shared value’
The use of a building can change over time. During covid, many people were forced to work at home with limited working space. Now, the increasing housing shortage will probably ask for additional (temporary) interior transformations, towards more compact apartment layouts This case-study proposes a room divider system based on a parametric model, adaptable to specific room sizes and various aesthetic choices using circular wood and digital design. The division system is designed for disassembly, so that when dismantled -as tenants needs change- its elements can be re-processed and re-used for other applications. It is not only made with circular wood, it is also designed and produced with circularity in mind.
Image: Hilda Weges
Circular material bank
Harvested wood from building renovations comes in different volumes and types. A perfect match between available wood and what is needed for ‘new’ applications, is rare. To match donating and receiving projects, the necessary alignment in planning renovations might be difficult for a single housing corporation. What if a shared material bank could be organized, to store large volumes of circular wood from different sources? This could be a solution for two or more housing corporations, working together towards a common goal. A bank to collect pieces with no prospects for immediate re-use that, when combined, can create a good starting point for manufacturing room divisions, fences, decorative panels or other systems, when needed.
