Case Studies

Lay Koon Ng
Feb 28, 2021
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Course: ID Application 2

Week: 2

Title: Research about Recycle Office - Haka Building

Architect: Doepal Strijkers

Designated as a campus for clean-tech activity, a ‘Living Lab’ for companies, institutions, and authorities in the field of water and energy innovation.
Develop a concept on how the strategy of closing material cycles on a scale can be translated into the interior of a building.

The ambition was to go further than just reducing the CO2 footprint through the reuse of materials. An alternative development was set in place by introducing the social component.

The project not only as an example of how to make an interior from waste but also added value through empowerment and education.

The cost of the project is 4.5 times lower compared to using new material. The project demonstrates that the realization of an interior can have more impact environmentally, socially, and economically than traditional interior projects.

RECYCLED MATERIALS Both waste materials from demolition sites and waste products from production processes were harvested, transported, and processed in the HAKA building to form the new interior elements.

The design of the elements was dictated by a number of ecological criteria: remove the materials from the demolition objects sustainably using people in the reintegration process, limit the distance that materials are transported, limit the number of materials used, design the objects based on the intrinsic qualities of the materials, minimize the use of electric tools and design for easy dismantling for future re-use.