Circularity presented by RMIT, Polestar and Green Magazine – Waste with Want

“Circularity: Materials + Form” will run from June 27-29th in Fitzroy, Melbourne, showcasing projects from the RMIT Master of Architecture Design Studio and Research Elective

Distributing Waste with Want from RMIT Architecture on Vimeo. Reassociating the Relationship between Output and Byproduct.

The benefits of modern construction will not be abandoned or reinvented. The processes required will change the environment monumentally. Which environment bears that burden; however, we may choose.
A series of National Park style policies are implemented to “carry out what you carry in”; pollutant gases must be contained, transported and borne as a burden by those who also receive the beneficial materials – reassociating the relationship between output and byproduct.
The levels of the building represent a continual development of the workspace (part industrial reprocessing plant, part office building) as humanity adapts to these new policies of assigning the environmental burden to the internal world. Naturally, progression creates more resolved spaces with more dynamic uses of the systems and of the new aluminium materials created.
Thus, the building represents a freezeframe in the transition process and does not represent a resolved answer to how the workspace adapts in the end, rather posing the question of what priority we give to our comfort when it is directly challenged alongside the benefits we receive from fossil fuels and extraction of minerals (bauxite) from the earth.
MATT DONOGHUE