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After opening its new doors 2013, the town hall received a Dutch Award for Sustainable Architecture. The building’s foundation is a historic structure dating back to 1890. A modular space was added to the town hall, the qualities of the historic building kept intact, restored where necessary and connected to a new addition with a glass roof.
WHAT WORKED WELL:
- Approximately 90 per cent of the materials in the newly added space can be dismantled and reused.
- The modular design not only enables easy disassembly, but it also resulted in significant reduction of the construction time.
- The building’s foundation is a historic structure dating back to 1890 that will remain unchanged after the dismantling of the circular extension.
- The building also received the first materials passport turning it into a raw materials depot in which the details of every piece are known, including their destination in a second life for some elements.
LESSONS LEARNED:
- Involving suppliers at a very early stage in the design phase resulted in a very high degree of circularity of the building.
- The fact that the wooden beams were made larger not thinner, made the team realise that KPIs in a circular economy are not necessary the same as in a linear model, where less not more material would have been considered an achievement.
- The novelty of the concept made it a challenge to convince the client of the necessity of a materials passport and to obtain all the necessary data from suppliers.
WORKING GROUP:
- Client: Municipality of Brummen
- Architect: RAU
- Circular economy expert: Turntoo
- Builder: BAM Utiliteitsbouw
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Type of stakeholder: GovernmentType of strategy: Circular design (e.g.: cradle to cradle and design for disassembly)
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Type of stakeholder: Government
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Type of strategy: Circular design (e.g.: cradle to cradle and design for disassembly)