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Opalis Global
 Tools to encourage the recirculation
of materials and building components
            where you live
                Diploma 18
                2020-2021
          AA School of Architecture

             Aude-Line Duliere
              James Westcott
                with Rotor
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Diploma 18 unit brief, 2020-21
What are the potentialities of                   This work will be the foundation for two        On both the macro and ‘micro’ scale,
understanding architecture as a system           connected design projects. The first: a         students’ designs could operate within
that orchestrates flows of materials             masterplan for redesigning the material         existing frameworks -- the so-called ‘real’
and resources, with a building as just           reuse system. What stimulus package,            world -- or they could be drastic proposals
a short-lived freeze-frame? How can              infrastructural upgrades, legal changes,        for ‘ideal’ conditions, buildings, or
architects design with deconstruction            and cultural shifts would facilitate the        practices. Rooted in the reality of a chosen
and demolition in mind, and take                 increased use of used materials in building     material or framework, students’ proposals
responsibility for shepherding a                 projects, ensure their reclamation from         could even delve into the surreal, satire,
material towards a potential second              doomed buildings, and encourage a               or science-fiction if it offers a critical and
life?                                            thriving economy of reuse?                      constructive perspective.

Previous generations of Diploma 18               The second design project will be a             Students will be encouraged to work
students have begun the systematic               zoom into a particular component of this        physically wherever possible, away from
documentation of the architectural salvage       masterplan. It could be a communication         Zoom, away from the computer entirely,
industry in the UK through building the          campaign, an architectural project as case      engaging with a material, a company, or
website opalis.co.uk. This year, students        study, a rescue/stimulus package for a          a policymaker in the development of their
will take their country as a subject of          neglected or wasted material, a hands-on        designs.
research, starting with visits to scrapyards,    DIY home improvement project whereas
warehouses, and other kinds of re-sellers        specific material reuse is put into practice,   Diploma 18 aims to plant seeds for
of used building materials. Informal, illegal,   the promotion of a particular regional (or      students’ professional lives by building
and indigenous material processes will be        vernacular) practice...                         local professional relationships and
of interest too. Students will start building                                                    developing concrete expertise and
a database -- opalis.global -- of reuse          Students will be supported at punctual          obsessions. This unit calls for a fluency
resources spanning different nations.            points throughout the year by the expertise     with a pre-existing system and the
                                                 of Rotor, a cooperative design practice         imagination to rethink it.
Students will then expand their research,        based in Brussels which investigates the
exploring the entire material reuse              organisation of the material environment.
ecosystem where they live: the laws,             Workshops and consultations will be
industry regulations, government policies        hosted on various aspects of reuse in
and incentives, the key institutions and         architecture, on policy and philosophy,
players, academic research projects and          and on opportunities for growth within the
NGOs, the activism and advocacy for              secondhand material economy.
circularity in the building industry in their
country or region.

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Rehabilitation: Cleaning cement and other                  Bottleneck: Materials for which no reuse solution   Waste: Ashes from the waste-to-energy incinerator
adhesives from tiles reclaimed from demolition sites,      can be found today under the current policy and     in Brussels; a waste product of the so-called circular
at Rotor DC, Brussels. A labour-intensive process          economic frameworks.                                economy.
making tiles fit for re-entry into the material economy.

PEDAGOGICAL NOTE: Diploma 18                               -- when we meet on Zoom (or any other               encouragement can be exchanged to
typically calls for group work and                         platform), we will often endeavor to do it in       enrich each other’s projects
collaboration. This year, our global spread                the format or a live report, where students
(especially in Term 1) presents a challenge                will stream from a location relevant for            -- Diploma 18 fosters conviviality,
to this collective ethos. We will attempt to               reuse, giving their colleagues a tour               transparency, self-responsibility, and
meet it through range of methods:                                                                              flexibility. The following plan for the year
                                                           -- as well as the normal studio and tutorial        will evolve through our discussions and
-- students will be encouraged to work in                  sessions, students will have ‘face-to-face’         mutual discoveries…
the field as much as possible, not bound to                meetings with their peers without tutors
their desks or the internet                                present to simulate the natural studio
                                                           habitat, where informal feedback and

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Rotor
“So where are we now? Well, in terms            For instance: visibility, access to markets,     This unit at the AA started in 2018 as a
of reclamation the world has gone               or a fluid integration into contemporary         preliminary investigation with a focus
backwards. Salvage used to be fairly easy       building practices. In the context of a          on the UK. This year the researched
and popular. The quantity of reclaimed          European grant application (Interreg),           will spread to various points around
building material reused in new modern          Rotor has partnered with technical               the globe, ideally forming an exchange
sustainable and eco-friendly buildings          institutions, trade associations, research       between Rotor’s experience and
is now miniscule. While demolition has          centres, architecture schools and public         radically divergent practices across
increased, reuse has decreased. Indeed, a       administrations. The effort is rooted in         different jurisdictions and cultures.
five-star rated green building is allowed to    earlier initiatives that were started up,        Rotor will act as expert consultants for
have no reclaimed building material at all.”    successfully, in Brussels. The ambition,         students of Dip 18, hosting a series of
                                                in the long term (2032), is the diversion        workshops on various aspects of the
Thornton Kay, on Salvoweb.com                   of 1.75 million tons of waste on top of the      reuse sector throughout the year.
                                                baseline, thus creating a value of €300
In the UK today, 90% of materials are           million or 4,000 new jobs.
“recovered” from the construction and
demolition industry, but only 1% of material    The effort will require the participation of a
is recirculated after its first use. Although   wide range of protagonists in the building
a large proportion of components are            sector: deconstruction professionals,
technically reusable, the vast majority end     materials suppliers, commissioners,
up being either down-cycled or landfilled.      consulting engineers, etc. Among these,
This results in a high environmental            architects hold a particular position. As
impact, and a considerable loss of              authors of building specifications, they
economic value.                                 choose which materials to prescribe in their
                                                projects and thus hold the key to whether
Rotor has taken on the challenge                or not salvaged goods can find second
to double, by 2032, the amount of               lives. To make this a common practice, we
recirculated building elements in Northern      think that within a 20-year period it should
France, Belgium, the UK and the southern        be as easy for an architect to prescribe a
Netherlands. This territory houses              salvaged material as it is today to prescribe
thousands of companies specialised in           a new material.
the reclamation and supply of recovered
building elements. Despite their obvious
potential for the circular economy, these
operators are facing important challenges.

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Compatibility: At a yard for used roof tiles, many        Demolition: Currently there is no tax on demolition     Pilot project: Coordination between seven
varieties sit unsold, struggling to find types they can   in Brussels, which amounts to a subsidy for             stakeholders was required to organise the reuse of a
fit with. How to break through this bottleneck?           developers to start from scratch as a default option,   tower’s ventilation plant in Brussels. A large opening
                                                          even for durable materials like concrete.               in the facade left a scar as testimony of Rotor’s
                                                                                                                  ground-breaking operation.

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Why Reuse
“In a crisis we would immediately adopt all     mainly performed by small and medium-              being discarded as waste.
of these [reuse] strategies, to conserve the    sized enterprises (SMEs) occupying a            3. a weak demand for reclaimed
value in existing materials. In our economy     discrete segment of the building industry.         products. Today, the demand for
at present, manufacturing is so efficient       In the countries involved in this project          reclaimed products often remains
that any reuse requiring additional labour      (Belgium, Holland, France, the UK), some           limited to small-scale projects,
is unlikely to compete with the use of new      2,200 companies facilitate the reuse of            because no methods have been
material, and therefore most of these opti-     1.2 million tonnes of building components          developed to integrate reused com-
ons are dormant.”                               each year. In comparison, this amount              ponents in formal contexts such as
                                                represents 1.1% of the total construction          public tenders or technically de-
Allwood, Julian M., and Jonathan M. Cul-        and demolition (C&D) waste generated in            manding applications.
len. Sustainable Materials: Without the Hot     the same territory. Reclamation activities
Air, p. 219.                                    generate €250 million per year, directly
                                                sustaining 3,000 full-time equivalents, and
Reusing building elements is often seen         involve 15,000 people in total. Despite
as a key feature of a future circular eco-      their evident significance to the circular
nomy in the EU. In many policies, it is a top   economy, these operators face important
priority strategy (e.g. Directive 2008/98/EC    challenges:
on waste). In practice, we see that most
efforts in the last decades to ‘close the          1. lack of visibility. Specialists in dis-
loops’ in the building sector were limited to         mantling, preparing and supplying
the promotion of recycling processes which            reclaimed products are generally
imply crushing or melting materials. Yet              overlooked by building professio-
there are good reasons to develop reuse.              nals. As a result, they operate in a
Life-cycle analysis (LCA) studies reveal              niche market, when their products
that reclaimed elements often have a dras-            and services could be applied to
tically lower environmental impact compa-             large-scale projects as well.
red to newly produced equivalents. Reuse
preserves most of the economic value,              2. low recovery rate of reusable
technical qualities and cultural significance         elements. The current practices in
of a building product. It also generates              demolition favor the sorting of C&D
locally rooted economic activities.                   waste flows, but lack a strategy to
                                                      manage reusable elements. As a
Today in north-western Europe the circu-              consequence, large quantities of
lation of reclaimed building elements is              potentially reusable elements are

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Salvage: A Dip 18 project from 2019-20 proposed        Hands-on: inspecting material at a resellers’ yard   Workforce, working conditions and machinery:
pouring waste concrete into formworks that would       during a visit for Opalis.co.uk.                     Dismantling of blue limestone slabs on a
be provided to a concrete yard; the resulting blocks                                                        deconstruction site for in situ reuse. Design
could be used for almost anything... (Sorana Mazilu                                                         processes are dependent of the expertise of the
and Alice Nobel)                                                                                            workforce and the potential of the machinery. As
                                                                                                            designers and material specifiers, which type of
                                                                                                            jobs within the building industry are we, architects,
                                                                                                            encouraging? Which expertises are we celebrating?

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Spolia / Opalis
“In the context of the prolific production and   plied to architectural salvage and reuse in       the outcome of an extensive field research
consumption of commodities in mid-twen-          later eras. Yet the notion bears an explicitly    where every reseller has been visited and
tieth century America, the reuse of consu-       negative connotation because of its asso-         interviewed.
mer products was negatively charged with         ciation with the idea of spoliation (the act of
implications of backwardness and social          ruining, robbing or destroying something).        Opalis’ vocation is:
marginality. New products made of newly          The focus is on the loss of the original
manufactured materials were promoted             rather than on the smart reintegration into          -   to familiarize building professionals
as more efficient, cleaner, safer, and more      a new compound.                                          with these companies; to advertise
aesthetically appealing. If the discarded                                                                 their individual competences and
products of this and other hyper-productive      When Rotor set up, in 2012, the project of               expertises
societies were reused, it was elsewhere,         an on-line for inventory of all professional         -   to federate the salvage industry,
on their own impoverished peripheries, or        resellers of salvaged building materials in              which, until now, has hardly been
in the so-called Third World. By the end         Belgium, the idea was to refer to the notion             able to push its own agenda
of the century, however, concern for ma-         of spolia, without suffering the negative            -   to provide inspiring examples and
naging the waste created by the constant         connotations. That’s why it was decided to               concrete tools meant to facilitate
replacement of once-new products by ever         use an anagram. OPALIS sounded neutral                   the integration of reused compo-
newer ones was reversing the negative            enough.                                                  nents in new projets
charge one reuse and investing it instead
with positive moral value. Yet because the       Constantly updated since 2012, and gradu-
“psychology of abundance” that accom-            ally extending beyond the Belgian territory,
panied the earlier “throwaway spirit” is still   the online guide opalis.be now lists more
prevalent, reuse is noticeably non-confor-       than 120 professional suppliers in second-
mist, exceptional, and ideological, rather       hand building materials from Belgium,
than systemic and neutral.”                      South-Holland and France. The idea of the
                                                 project is to map out, on behalf of archi-
Brilliant, Richard, and Dale Kinney. Reuse       tects and commissioners on the lookout
Value Spolia and Appropriation, p. 2.            for batches of quality reclaimed materials,
                                                 companies that can
Spolia is the term that has been used by         supply trustworthy building materials, com-
archeologists and historians since the Re-       petently salvaged from buildings slated for
naissance to designate fragments of Greek        demolition. These companies offer quality
and Roman monuments that were salva-             guarantees and remanufacturing services
ged and reused, by subsequent cultures,          for a smoother integration of the goods
in new buildings. The term was also ap-          in a new building. The Opalis database is

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Field work: Dip 18 students visit Bath Reclamation     Spolia: Fragments of ruined buildings used by   Storage: Used materials must typically be stored
to compile data for opalis.co.uk. The yard is run by   subsequent cultures. How to rehabilitate this   for a long period before buyers or projects can
Cary Morgan, who has been in the reuse industry for    practice?                                       be found for them. Rotor DC proposes a service
34 years.                                                                                              of consignment sales which offers demolition
                                                                                                       contractors the opportunity to store material with
                                                                                                       them, hence encouraging potential recirculation.
                                                                                                       This, for a fee that is less than the cost of disposal.

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Term 1: The reuse sector where you live
“In any urban society there is a massive       Phase 1: Opalis.global                           entire reuse system where they are; for
stock of available materials from demolition   Deliverable: a live functioning website          the website itself, we hope to make reused
and industrial waste that is currently         populated with at least three re-sellers         materials more accessible for architects,
discarded but has potential value. Although    per student (the website should be               developers, and commissioners, as well
the infrastructure to locate and use these     continuously added to throughout the year)       as creating a fascinating platform for those
resources is currently lacking, some                                                            who wish to compare notes on material
industry leaders are establishing design       As an entré into the material reuse sector       reuse across different countries.
strategies, materials recovery processes,      where they live, students will visit and
construction management approaches             systematically document used material re-        We will need to be efficient and systematic
and manufacturing systems to create            sellers: scrapyards, warehouses, and even        in building this website and populating it.
innovative new ways of using them in the       more bespoke or boutique set-ups. Their          It’s a big task, but only a preliminary one
built environment.”                            efforts will be collated online into a new       for the work of the unit.
                                               platform, opalis.global. The progenitors,
Mark Gorgolewsky, Resource Salvation:          opalis.be (for Belgium) and Opalis.co.uk
The Architecture of Reuse, foreword.           (Dip 18’s first project) will set the template   Phase 2: Mini-documentary
                                               for our new website, though students             Deliverable: a short documentary
                                               can propose nuances and innovations
                                               suitable for the more varied terrain we          Students will plan, shoot, and produce a
                                               will be covering. For example, informal,         short guerilla documentary on a particular
                                               illegal, vernacular and indigenous practices     ‘moment’ in the material reuse cycle.
                                               with material use outside the mainstream         Students might record demolition sites or
                                               economy should also be encompassed on            other areas to reveal the origin, production,
                                               the website.                                     or disposal of a building material. Another
                                                                                                approach could be the narration of the
                                               Our work will be kicked off by a workshop        journey of a material from a resellers yard
                                               hosted by Rotor on the concept of spolia,        to a site, or from deconstruction site to
                                               the innovation of Opalis as a platform, and      yard. The film will be uploaded onto an
                                               the state of the reuse sector in Belgium.        opalis.global channel on YouTube.

                                               The aim of opalis.global is twofold: for the
                                               students, we hope to lay the foundations
                                               for their imminent deeper research into the

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Phase 3: Documenting the reuse sector            policy, or a policy proposed by an advocate
where you are                                    of the reuse sector
Deliverable: a booklet
                                                 Where a material does not fit in well with
Students will research the SYSTEM                the pre-existing system, the student may
-- the constellation of players, policies,       well have identified the beginning of their
regulations, economic incentives, and            design project: a BOTTLENECK. By
practices that constitute the material           ‘bottleneck’ we mean a blockage in the
reuse sector where they live. They will          flow of secondhand architectural materials,
also document/create a spectrum of used          and it could be there for any reason:
building MATERIALS, ranging from those
that are most successfully reclaimed,            -- economic (under current conditions,
re-sold, and reused, to those that are           reclamation, rehabilitation, storage, and
rarely or never reclaimed (and students          distribution of a material may cost more
must figure out why). Each student will          than its retail value)
create a detailed diagram / flow chart           -- aesthetic (maybe the material is now
for each aspect -- the SYSTEM and the            unfashionable or considered ugly, or, when
MATERIALS.                                       old, it ‘becomes’ ugly, or even almost
                                                 taboo)
Students will workshop their initial findings    -- regulatory (for example, it’s very difficult
with Rotor for advice on what to look for,       to legally reuse steel beams)
and what opportunities might exist within        -- performance (materials of a certain age
the pre-existing system.                         may no longer reliably serve their original
This work be the foundation for a short          function)
booklet expanding on a few chosen
components, for example:                         Herein lies the opportunity for changing
                                                 perceptions, demonstrating viability,
-- the journey of a brick from demolition site   even proposing a change in the law, and
to resellers’ yard to new building               designing afresh, which will be the focus in
-- the metrics of the resale economy for a       Terms 2 and 3...
chosen material or a chosen reseller
-- the impact of a particular government

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Term 2: Redesigning re-use
“It would not serve my purpose to describe        Deliverable: ‘masterplan’ for the reuse          -- the fine details of a new subsidy system
in detail any fictional community of the          sector, early concept design for one aspect      for reuse and a prediction of its impact
future. I want to provide guidelines for          of this system                                   -- the design of an exemplary architectural
action, not for fantasy. A modern society,                                                         project: a retailer of used building
bounded for convivial living, could generate      In Term 2, students will switch from             materials, a new typology of affordable
a new flowering of surprises far beyond           research to design, utilizing their new          housing, the transposal of a material from
anyone’s imagination and hope. I am not           knowledge of the reuse sector to either          its normal usage to an alternative one...
proposing a Utopia, but a procedure that          rethink it entirely, or to tweak particular
provides each community with the choice           aspects of it. Students’ interventions could
of its unique social arrangements.”               be reality-based, proposing measures
                                                  that, theoretically, could be implemented
Illich, Ivan. Tools for conviviality, 1973.       tomorrow. Or students might choose
                                                  to posit ‘ideal’ legal and economic
“We can see our forests vanishing, our            frameworks, asserting drastic, ‘unrealistic’
water-powers going to waste, our soil             changes. The point here would be that
being carried by floods into the sea, and         demanding the apparently impossible is
the end of our coal and our iron is in sight.     often the most rigorous and ethical move,
But our larger wastes of human effort,            and it’s business-as-usual that is actually
which go on every day through such of             ‘unrealistic’, since it seeks to hide (through
our acts as are blundering, ill-directed, or      externalities) its true impact on the
inefficient, and which Mr. Roosevelt refers       environment, climate, marginalised labour,
to as a lack of ‘national efficiency,’ are less   etc.
visible, less tangible, and are but vaguely
appreciated.”                                     In dialogue with their masterplan for the
                                                  reuse system, students will begin zooming
F.W. Taylor, The Principles of Scientific         in on one component of it to redesign in
Management, 1911, p. 5                            detail. Some possibilities:

                                                  -- an innovative (or long-lost) way of using
                                                  a secondhand material in architecture
                                                  -- a government or NGO branding
                                                  campaign for a new reuse policy

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Term 3: Design resolution
Deliverable: detailed design & instructions
for implementation                              In Term 3, students will focus on
                                                developing and resolving their design
“Again: design is basic to all human            for a particular component of the reuse
activities. The planning and patterning         sector. The design should be delivered in
of any act toward a desired foreseeable         the form of instructions for a third party
end constitutes the design process. Any         (a contractor, an NGO, a layperson…)
attempt to separate design, to make it          to implement. This approach demands
a thing-by-itself, works counter to the         maximum clarity and communicability.
inherent value of design as the primary,        It also gives a potential second life to
underlying matrix of life. Integrated design    students’ projects after they have moved
is comprehensive: it attempts to take           on...
into consideration all the factors and
modulations necessary to decision-making
process. Integrated, comprehensive
design is anticipatory. It attempts to
look at existing data and trends and
to continuously extrapolate, as well as
interpolate, from the scenarios of the future
it constructs. Integrated, comprehensive
and anticipatory design is the act of
planning and shaping carried on across the
various disciplines, and act continuously
carried on at interfaces between them.”

Papanek, Victor. Design for the Real
World, 1984, p. 322.

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