Re-constructed - Archived fragments

Vincent Jackow

Project Info

Within the current socio-economic and climate crises, cities have to adapt and transform their building stocks to match new pressing challenges. As MIT’s School of Architecture is moving to the Metropolitan Warehouse, a XIXth century brick storage facility, this project imagines an archive of massive brick offcuts resulting from openings in the existing structure. Within a campus’ courtyard, these monolithic wall fragments celebrate a relocation and its ‘archived’ experiences. From ruins and demolition waste can emerge a new circular material culture, giving value to weathered surfaces and exploring the potential of material reuse as an emerging form of creative practice.

Photograph of model incorporating waste fragments
Photograph of model reinventing the metropolitan warehouse
Photograph of model reinventing the metropolitan warehouse
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