#cyclability

I went to the idea store in Whitechapel in London, it locates in a chaotic and ugly-beautiful surroundings nearby. The appearance of the building is consist of  stripes of green and blue glass, which is inspired by the striped awnings of the same colors on the market stalls that crowd the pavement on Whitechapel High Street. The stripes also give a lift to the views out, colorising the brown townscape with the hues of grass and sky. 

The Idea Store concept have been cruel, a monument to trendy rebranding at the cost of true learning, or a intense attempt to sell Shakespeare. It potentially made worse by the fact that the new Whitechapel building replaces Whitechapel Library which recently closed, the perfect picture of high-minded ideals of learning and knowledge, and refuge for generations of free thinkers and writers. 

After you enter the front of the gate, you will see red plastic floor, which is made of recycled materials.

The new Idea Store sets itself apart from its surroundings and embraces them at the same time. It is clearly something special, a better world apart and a construction different from any other buildings nearby. However, it also means to bring the life of the street into it, through the escalator that lands straight on to the pavement, and through the use of both glamorous and workaday materials. 

I have chosen two strategies from the TEN, which is design for cyclability and also reduce to need to consume. I am looking at a project which is about a unique building used abandoned materials from a zero-waste japanses town. It is designed by Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP. 

The reason why I am interested in this project is that it is all used waste materials and present it in creative and insprational ways. The small Japanese town of Kamikatsu has achieved an 80% recycling rate and residents sort their waste into 34 categories. 

The Kamikazt Public House uses the zero waste concept in its design, particularly with its attractive eight-meter-tall window wall made from a series of windows reclaimed from abandoned houses nearby. The eight-meter-tall window wall and other openings bring in cool breezes in the summer, while a carbon-neutral radiation heater warms the structure in winter.

This design fulfill the strategy of design for cyclability . Apparently, the building is filled with creative displays of reuses, including reclaimed tiles for the flooring, a bottle chandelier, and newspapers up cycled into wallpaper. The exterior is clad locally produced and reclaimed cedar boards colored with naturally derived persimmon tannin paint. This is also fit the strategy of reduce the need of consume, since most of  the materials are from nature, so that all can be recycled and meanwhile collect materials from the daily trash. It could help reduce the need to consume since there is no need to buy or make any new materials.

14/10/2016

Lecture 1

Today i had my first lecture on sustainable design with Gabrielle. 

We have to consider how we can make the future better for the next generation and challenge ourselves with the development of better materials. 

Today we discussed the Ted Ten.1 to 5.

1 Design to Minimise waste

2 Design for Cyclability.

3 Design to Reduce Chemical impacts.

4 Design to Reduce energy and Water use.

5 Designs that Explores Clean/Better Technologies 

Design for Cyclabitity.

 Recycling is very important to reduce waste of unwanted fabrics and materials. Making something new from old is a great way to upcycle an unwanted item. 

Reference

Been extremely busy with all things university related recently so I have been rather slack with the updates on here.  Hope to start picking things back up again now though.  So to start is a link to a recent coursework essay I wrote in response to the following statement...