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How to Make a Facade with Recycled Materials

With the aim of supporting architects to become active agents of sustainable design, this week we present a selection of facades that incorporate different recycled materials. Beyond the typical uses of plastic and glass, in this article, you will find innovative materials such as mattress springs, ice cream containers, plastic chairs, and recycled waste from agricultural and industrial products. A look at remarkable projects using recycled materials to create an attractive facade.

Identified from the top:

Gallery of Furniture CHYBIK+KRISTOF, recycled plastic seats

Ningbo Historic Museum Wang Shu Amateur Architecture Studio, recycled tiles

Naju Art Museum Hyunje Joo, recycled semi-transparent plastic baskets

Bima Microlibrary SHAU Bandung, recycled plastic ice cream containers

Vegan House Block Architects, recycled windows

China Academy of Arts’ Folk Art Museum Kengo Kuma & Associates, recycled tiles from local houses

Kamikatz Public House Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP, recycled windows from abandoned houses

Luxury Pavilion Fahed + Architects, recycled bedsprings

Backyard Cabin Emerging Objects, recycled agricultural and industrial waste products

The Beehive Luigi Rosselli + Raffaello Rosselli, recycled terracotta roof tiles

CloakedHouse by Ernesto Pereira

Looking at this project, it is indeed the sensations we experience that leave their mark as we think, walk and live through it. This project was clearly inspired by the place, a piece of land surrounded by chestnut trees, incredibly ripped into the mountain, flanked by a stream that flows down the hillside and a magnificent open view of the other side of the valley perfectly nestled into the natural landscape.

Contemporary Architecture Captured by Mexican Photographers

Archdaily compiled the work of contemporary Mexican photographers who record our walk through the world we live in and contribute to constructing the image of contemporary architecture around the world. 

Learn more about each photographer and see more of their work following the source link. Identified from the top image down:

Marcos Betanzos

Amy Bello

Diana Arnau

Tatiana Mestre

Adlai Pulido

Camila Cossío

Marisol Paredes

Vicky Navarro

Alum Gálvez

Notariaat 2.0 - Continuous Landscape

Atelier Vens Vanbelle

ORIGIN Tree House

Atelier LAVIT have designed the ORIGIN Tree House for their clients in France who wanted to have a unique cabin.

“Any decision you make will alter the course of your life. See, try changing something little.”

I thought about a little decision I’d made. Right, breakfast on the 2nd of August, 2009. The genie told me that I’d had cornflakes that morning, so I went with rice bubbles. Apparently, the rice bubbles has trace cyanide and I had to go to the hospital. Here, I met a man who fought in Vietnam. He was in the bed next to me, although he never talked because he was deaf. I did befriend him, however. The hospital fruit was revolting but this gentleman loved it. He hated toast, so he’d give me his in exchange for my fruit. On his last day, he slipped a note to me. On it was an address, his I assumed. I asked mum to drive me there the following day.

A huge mansion with sprawling gardens met us when we arrived. There stood the old man, weary with age but a huge smile on his face. “I have no family,” he began. “I’m leaving all of this to my closest friend. You.”

I felt my head go light as I was transported back to the present day. The genie smiled.

Vector Architects transforms sugar mill into hotel complex in southern China