Eco-Friendly Pop-up Architecture

Eco-Friendly Pop-up Architecture

“We have now reached the end of this course. Thank you so much for accompanying me for the time being! Before you leave now, let me offer you some more information on what your final project ideally should look like. This way, you should be able to put everything you've learned into practice by going through all the steps we've taken in this course. As a final project, I would like you to start designing your own piece of pop-up architecture made out of repurposed materials and objects. I encourage you to start designing a pavilion with recycled or hacked products. First, get familiar with circular economy and "cradle to cradle" principles, two environmental paradigms that can provide you with a background to understand and explain to others the benefits of designing with repurposed objects. Another important factor is to learn to distinguish between recycling, hacking, reusing, and upcycling. This way, you will find new ways to bring a second life to what is around you! Then it's time to settle on a systematic collection and classification of leftover objects and used materials to build your own design. Evaluating and comparing the benefits of using these objects and materials should not come up short in this. In the next step, you will create an attractive and engaging visual result for your project. Think carefully about how the image you choose creates the audience of your work. Then, think about structural stability. Don’t forget that reusing found objects as primary building materials can cause problems when it comes to structural analysis, so it's recommendable to use our “modes of failure" approach to materiality and apply redundancy to the global scheme and the local joints.

Don't forget to also explore the spatial possibilities through combining well-defined components using digital or physical 3D modeling. Then it's time to plan dismantling and networking as part of your circular strategy, as well as define details from that perspective. Next, try to build your full-scale pavilion or a significant sample of it. In order to do that, plan the logistics of your project and tackle how to get funding. Organize a group of volunteers that will help you in the construction process. Remember the practical tactics to ensure a better building result. And finally, share your project with the world, creating a media strategy and presenting the pop-up installation in a portfolio. I would love to see your results in the forum to give you some feedback! While waiting for my reply, please be a little bit patient - I'll come back to you as soon as I have some free time on my hands. Of course, also feel free to post images of what you've come up with on social media using the hashtag #IzaskunChinchillaDomestika! It has been a pleasure to be your teacher in this course. See you again soon!”

Partial transcription of the video

“Final Project Hello. First of all, thank you very much for taking this journey with me. I have tried to share all the knowledge that I have acquired all through my professional experience. Now it's the time to apply everything you've learned into your own pop-up design. We started getting familiar with circular economy and cradle to cradle principles. These are two environmental paradigms that can provide you a background to help you understand and explain to others the benefits of designing with repurposed objects. After that you learned to distinguish between recycling, reusing, upcycling...”

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Course summary for: Eco-Friendly Pop-up Architecture

• Level: Beginner
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• 3039 students
• 5 units
• 17 lessons (3h 55m)
• 21 downloads

• Category

  Architecture & Spaces

• Areas

  Architecture, Spatial Design, Upcycling