MICHAEL THUT
Material Management is a suburban dwelling
re-imagined as a waste management facility. Our studio block’s overarching
theme was “ex-communicated,” so I designed a system to process and repurpose
waste that is prevalent in contemporary society. The building processes three categories of waste: food, plastic, and electronics. Each floor is dedicated to one material, as the diagram showcases above.
The building is organized so that the northern part of the building (the top portion of each floor plan) takes in old prducts from the block and the neighborhood at large. On each floor, one bedroom is dedicated to processing the old products before handing them off to the other bedroom for sale/sending off. The southern part of the building is dedicated to reintroducing these repurposed products back into the community in non-wasteful ways.
To aid in the processing of these materials, the building is clad in a
modular wood scaffolding system that houses containers, mechanisms, and
repurposed products. It effectively turns the building inside out by exposing the building’s guts as the facade.
Here one can see the interior of the building filled with cut chutes, flaps, containers, and cut outs to give inhabitants access to the modular facade.
These drawings further detail the strucutre of the building and how the interior form is dictated by the organized facade.
This model showcases the conceived design in physical form. Here one can further see the cut outs in the facade to make room for interior space and the passage of light.