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Construction Sustainable

Green Workshop: Mine the city - With logistics to circular metabolisms

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Audience at the Holcim Forum Green Workshop Mine the city - With logistics to circular metabolisms including expert Marc Angélil (Switzerland), Member, Technical Competence Center, Holcim Foundation (front row, writing).

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 The workshop centers on material stocks accumulated in the urban environment and the material fluxes associated with building construction. Taking the city as a reservoir of matter, waste streams, re-use, and recycling strategies need to be considered within the building sector in order to reduce the ecological footprint of construction.

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Introductory statement
Marc Angélil, Switzerland
Member, Technical Competence Center, Holcim Foundation

Moderation / conclusion
Cary Siress, UK
Professor of Architecture and Contemporary Theory, School of Arts, Culture, and Environment, University of Edinburgh

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Experts
Re: Going around in circles – Regimes of waste (PDF, 122KB)
Marc Angélila and Cary Siressb
a Dean, Department of Architecture, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), Switzerland
b Professor of Architecture and Contemporary Theory, School of Arts, Culture, and Environment, University of Edinburgh, UK

Subtraction (PDF, 478KB)
Keller Easterling, USA
Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Yale University


Urban metabolism of ancient Caral, Peru (PDF, 121KB)
John Fernández, USA
Associate Professor of Building Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)


Air Mexico (PDF, 976KB)
Marcos Sánchezaand Mark Wasiutab, USA
a Professor, Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc)
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Assistant Adjunct Professor, Columbia University

Feeding New York in New York (PDF, 897KB)
Michael Sorkin, USA
Professor of Architecture and Director, Graduate Program in Urban Design, The City College of New York (CCNY); Founder, Terreform Inc.

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Case studies
Resuscitating the Fez River
Aziza Chaouni and Takako Tajima, Morocco/Canada/USA
Principals, Bureau E.A.S.T.

Trucks, containers, and collectives
Santiago Cirugeda, Spain
Principal, Recetas Urbanas


Growing water
Sarah Dunn and Martin Felsen, USA
Principals, UrbanLab

LOT-EK O+O (Objects and Operations)
Giuseppe Lignano and
Ada Tolla, USA/Italy
Principals, LOT-EK

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Assistant
Jesse LeCavalier, Switzerland
PhD Candidate, Institute for Urban Design, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich)

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Mobile workshop experts
Arturo Ortiz Struck, Mexico
Head, Mexico City Certificate Program, Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA); Head, Taller Territorial de México

Rozana Montiel, Mexico
Lecturer, School of Architecture, Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA); Founder and Director, Periférica


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