[Greenbuilding] reused materials

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----- Original Message -----
From: Alan Abrams <alan at abramsdesignbuild.com>
To: greenbuilding at lists.bioenergylists.org
Sent: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:01:53 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: [Greenbuilding] reused materials

<The original concept is what I call the Zero Building Technique - no


waste is created during demo (it is reused on site or elsewhere), no


new materials are bought (only salvaged) during the construction, >

appropos GBC's ZBT, the Pritzker was just awarded to Wang Shu.  This is from the current NYT:  




In designing the Xingshan Campus of the China Academy of Art

in his native Hangzhou, Mr. Wang also reused materials, covering the 

campus buildings with more than two million tiles from demolished 

traditional houses.		


“Everywhere you can see, they don’t care about the materials,” Mr. Wang 

said in an interview. “They just want new buildings, they just want new 

things. I think the material is not just about materials. Inside it has 

the people’s experience, memory — many things inside. So I think it’s 

for an architect to do something about it.”		
see more at:
-- http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/28/arts/design/pritzker-prize-awarded-to-wang-shu-chinese-architect.html?hp


-AA

Alan Abrams
Abrams Design Build LLC
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