ABSTRACT
In 2011 a group of architects working for the Danish practice Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects enrolled on a week-long course arranged by ‘Vugge til Vugge Denmark’, the Danish representative for the Environment Protection Encouragement Agency. Planning approval has not yet been granted by city planning authorities in Oslo because of issues relating to the overall development of the urban area. Recycling or reusing 90% of material removed from the existing building is ambitious enough. Creating networks with suppliers and contractors to ensure that 80% of this product ends up back on the site it was taken from is even more ambitious. The team at Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects were committed to exploring ‘Cradle to Cradle (C2C)’ principles further and applying them to their own architectural projects. To summarise the team’s list of C2C strategies, some materials will be directly reused, but most salvaged materials will be recycled and then returned to site as ‘new products’.
