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Imagine if standard buildings were that easy to reuse!
Sorry if it's a stupid question, but why do you need to reuse a building?
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In reference to building elements -
The construction industry generates 62% of the UK’s waste and 32% of all waste sent to landfill.
https://www.qualisflow.com/uk-construction-waste-report-2023/
If we're talking whole buildings - the longer you can keep a building in use through adaptive reuse, the more value you get out of the initial resource extraction, embodied carbon emissions etc.
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Far away from an expert, but the people that built paradroids house didn't chop down trees, they decided they needed housing instead of farms, so more or less transformed one into the other.
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In paradroids case, no trees felled, but the need for housing instead of farms, so they did something like big lego.
Readapting is best would be my guess, of course recycling is great, but tearing something down and then grinding it to dust to make new materials uses a lot of energy.
hoefla
c.h.e.
Finland. Makes sense. Definitely sounds like a good way to build. Imagine if standard buildings were that easy to reuse!
When I see lug construction here in Germany (there was a bit of a trend I think, and always the kind with visible logs) I chuckle because I imagine cowboy cosplay going on.