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The Brighton Waste House was an ambitious project to
point out the amount of waste we produce at home and in the
construction industry. It challenges our ideas of what waste is and what it
could be. Architects
Duncan Baker Browne and waste 'guru'
Cat Fletcher
teamed up to find a wide range of materials which could act
structurally, as insulation or finishes, both inside and out. Waste
chalk from a local building site was an obvious resource for a
rammed chalk wall
Once the design was agreed and the materials assembled
construction could begin with a group of industry apprentices and
architecture students set to work.
The first part of the building were cassettes made from
'waste' plywood, damaged in transit but perfectly usable. The
suppliers would otherwise have chipped the whole pallet of boards
thereby incurring cost. The cassettes were made by apprentices off site and
assembled on site. With basic structure in place the formwork
for the chalk wall could be started.
Both apprentices and architecture students were
involved in the assembling of formwork, the mixing of material and all
the other aspects of the build. Chalk was brought on site from a local
construction site, this part of Sussex produces a lot of chalk spoil
which is mainly used for roadside landscaping. However they are even
running out of spaces to do this in the county
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