The Lifecycle Building Challenge is an innovative competition sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency that encourages designers to consider futures changes in use, disassembly, re-use and recycling of the building or materials and components when designing a building. By minimizing waste during construction, allowing a building to adapt to a new use rather than tearing it down, designing materials and components that can be re-used in a new building, and considering how a building can be easily disassembled and moved, environmental and economic benefits can be realized.
The idea of designing for disassembly go hand in hand with prefabricated design in architecture. To design a structure that can be taken apart into transportable and reusable components in the future solves the same problem as designing a structure to be shipped to the site in pieces or volumes for assembly. In both cases, the designers are strongly considering the complexities of connections in assembly/disassembly and ultimately reducing construction time and waste. The winners of this competition came up with some solutions that are well thought out and aesthetically pleasing.
Check out the winners of the Lifecycle Building Challenge
Image taken from the Lifecycle Building Challenge website
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