We are delighted that the ‘Rethinking Recycling: A Crafting Network’ project by Year 3 architecture student Lili Wagner has been nominated for the RIBA Part 1 Silver President’s Medal 2019.
Lili’s project sought to challenge the dominant tendency for maker spaces to be located at the far edges of cities, separated from the day to day life of an urban centre. The scheme instead sought to bring in to the city industrial production to create a hybrid building that was part smelting yard, part visitors centre. The project suggests large scale production, individual maker units and a route through the heart of the workshops - making visually accessible to the public, the processes of material regeneration.
The project sought to foster a sustainable circular system for both the reuse of metal, and for the sharing of specialist knowledge to up-skill people.
An open, flexible structure aims to create porosity through the site, to create a permeable and ambiguous border between scales of materials, people and infrastructure.
The project was developed within Unit 7 at the Welsh School of Architecture, tutored by Zoë Berman.
The project was showcased as part of the RIBA President’s Medal touring exhibition and can be seen here
