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# Project Description Earth Banks: Buildings as Material Repositories Hector Sainsburya Summary Final work College Central Saint Martins Course M ARCH: Architecture Graduation year 2025 50% of the soil excavated for construction in the UK is sent to landfill. Combine that with all the bricks, sand and stones that are also demolished and removed as waste and you realise that there is a huge untapped source of building materials. That is why myself and my collaborator Gemma Lea travelled around Camden visiting building sites in order to collect their waste materials that would otherwise have gone to landfill. We took these materials back to the workshop where we separated them by size and materiality so that they could then become key ingredients in new earth constructions. These earth construction store the materials until the building is eventually knocked down at which point they are far easier to recycle and reuse than typical building materials such as concrete or steel. Final work Share this project 50% of the soil excavated for construction in the UK is sent to landfill. Combine that with all the bricks, sand and stones that are also demolished and removed as waste and you realise that there is a huge untapped source of building materials. That is why myself and my colla... A link to this page has been added to your clipboard Browse related work Craft & Process Climate Emergency
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