RE_SOURCE
GLOBAL CONTEXT
The incredible quantity of materials available thanks to the dismantling of the Olympic Stadium roof offers an opportunity to accelerate the potential for reuse and re-employment within the borough. This mine of materials has the power to launch a real collective awareness of the importance of radically transforming our ways of thinking about architecture in relation to the issues of resource depletion due to systemic and unsustainable industrial extraction.
INFRASTRUCTURE FOR REUSE
In response to these global issues, the project proposes the creation of a municipal infrastructure for the reuse of construction materials, where the various components of the stadium roof would be stored. This community infrastructure, following in the footsteps of the creation of a series, will be built in HoMa, on a site enabling the adaptive reuse of an existing industrial building. The building will be rehabilitated to accommodate the addition of a new hall, greenhouse and observation tower, all using recycled stadium components such as struts, flying masts and perimeter beams. This large surface area will provide storage for stadium materials, in addition to accommodating other materials from city-wide deconstruction.
CATALYST FOR SOCIAL COHESION AND CO-CREATION
Rich in opportunities for community exchange, this procurement site is also a place of learning about reuse and recycling, offering activities such as sewing and welding workshops, tool rental spaces and a Fab Lab for the manufacture and transformation of recycled materials. In this context, the reuse infrastructure provides access to a range of materials, offering citizens, community groups and the borough opportunities to appropriate this material for potential reuse both in private space and in the creation of new community amenities.
TOWARDS A RESILIENT CITY
The borough's challenges related to social inequalities and climate change, such as heat islands, vacant lots, the housing crisis, homelessness and contaminated land, are addressed by this reuse infrastructure. It offers the community the ability to build rooftops for housing, structures for composting and cultivation, bridges to activate land during decontamination - in short, multiple projects transforming urban dynamics. This pilot project is laying the foundations for a network of innovative projects at multiple scales across the urban territory. An approach that provides the tools and materials to build the resilient city.
(From competitor's text)
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This proposal was greatly appreciated by the members of the jury. The implementation of an infrastructure for the reuse of materials, built from them, is a brilliant idea. Introducing a way for citizens to appropriate part of the materials mine for micro-scale use in the reuse process has great potential for the reuse of large-scale structures. It's also one of the only projects that takes into account the roof dismantling process and is phased over time. The project is firmly rooted in the neighborhood, with social, community, environmental and economic benefits.
(From jury report)
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