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Another Man's Treasure

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Studio 3B
Year 3
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  • Year 3 Sustainability Prize

Overconsumption drives obsolescence by fostering a culture where products are rapidly replaced rather than maintained or repaired. A symptom of this cycle is fly tipping, littering cities' obsolete pockets with a fluctuating rhythm of material. To uncover deeper value in what’s left behind, the project moves beyond simple reuse, creating choreographies and projected distortions that transform discarded items into abstract compositions. These experiments obscure original functions, shifting how we perceive waste—not as debris, but as narrative and aesthetic material.

From this research, a fly-tipping infrastructure is proposed: a network of architectural interventions embedded in obsolete city fragments. Each node focuses on collecting, sorting, repairing, and reusing specific types of waste. Materials move through a logistics system that enables continual reclassification and redistribution. The buildings also act as transformative sites where waste is reimagined within the structures themselves. Together, the network redefines how cities engage with material excess and reintroduces forgotten fragments into the civic imagination.

By playing on a scanner, obsolete pieces harvested from abandoned objects, can find new values, new beauties. The objects no longer appear as waste, but elements of a new narrative, redefined through their spatial and material relationship.

Dismantling, Shifting

By playing on a scanner, obsolete pieces harvested from abandoned objects, can find new values, new beauties. The objects no longer appear as waste, but elements of a new narrative, redefined through their spatial and material relationship.

Each building in the network collects, sorts, and redistributes specific waste types, while also repairing and reusing materials. The structures themselves embody transformation, integrating reimagined waste into their fabric.

Two nodes of transformation - Another Man's Treasure

Each building in the network collects, sorts, and redistributes specific waste types, while also repairing and reusing materials. The structures themselves embody transformation, integrating reimagined waste into their fabric.

At night, light activates the assemblage, casting shifting silhouettes into the cityscape. These projections turn waste processes into quiet spectacles, reimagining discarded matter as something beautiful, challenging ideas of value and consumption.

Luminous Monuments

At night, light activates the assemblage, casting shifting silhouettes into the cityscape. These projections turn waste processes into quiet spectacles, reimagining discarded matter as something beautiful, challenging ideas of value and consumption.

This building acts as a vertical processing tower: materials are lifted to the top, and move downward through stages of sorting, breakdown, and assessment for reuse. Pipes that reflect each material value and destination then excrete these parts.

Node 001 - The Breakdown

This building acts as a vertical processing tower: materials are lifted to the top, and move downward through stages of sorting, breakdown, and assessment for reuse. Pipes that reflect each material value and destination then excrete these parts.

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