Vade Mecum for Off-Site Reuse / Manuaal materjalide taaskasutamiseks

Extracting reusable building components from to be demolished public buildings was long handicapped by uncertainty on how to organise such an operation while respecting all requirements for public tendering.

But no more excuses, today Rotor launched a Vademecum that explains in detail how to set things up. From simply getting rid of a few unnecessary barriers to actively stimulating reuse practicers, public commissioners are given a broad set of options on how to start doing what common sense demands: recirculating high quality components, earning money on sales and in avoided demolition costs, and creating local jobs in the process. The document includes a dozen template forms and example tenders allowing for an easy and fast implementation.

Belgia grupeering Rotor avaldas täna manuaali abistamaks lammutamisele määratud avalikest hoonetest saadavate materjalide hankimist ja taaskasutamist.

(Photo:Liina-Liis Pihu)

http://rotordb.org/project/2015_Vademecum_Deconstruction

Rotor Deconstruction by Rotor

Rotor Deconstruction is a young actor in the business of salvaged building components. They are currently the only such company in the Brussels Region. The elements they put on sale were dismantled from buildings in Belgium (occasionally France and the Netherlands) slated for demolition.

By buying their salvaged goods you help reduce the quantity of demolition waste produced, and buy yourself quality building materials with a negligible environmental impact. Furthermore, several of the pieces salvaged were conceived by renowned designers, realized by skilled craftsmen or with technologies now out of reach. Diverting these elements from the waste stream is a form of preservation, complementary to the efforts conducted by the established actors in historical building preservation.

The team is dealing with dismantling on the building site, conditioning, transporting, cleaning and preparing for sale, a large variety of materials. They collaborate with building and demolition contractors, architects, municipalities and property management companies.

Rotor Deconstruct actively looks for quality buildings scheduled for renovation or demolition and sets up partnerships with the owners and demolition companies. Their aim is to maximize the extraction of reusable elements from these buildings in the safest possible way. They always try to find interested buyers before dismantling, to save on transport and storage costs, and minimize risks of overstock.

http://www.rotordeconstruction.be/

Behind the Green Door Architecture and the Desire for Sustainability / Oslo Architecture Triennale 2013 by Rotor

The book Behind the Green Door is a richly illustrated critical portrait of the concrete consequences and paradoxes of sustainability as a dominating paradigm within architecture and urban planning. Drawing on a one-year long investigation carried out for the Oslo Architecture Triennale, Rotor presents and contextualizes the 600 objects gathered for its main exhibition (building models, samples, specialized construction tools, campaign posters, footage of lobbyist gatherings, etc.). As a secondary layer of content, the book contains 300 short comments by prominent architects, critics and scholars from around the world. The publication is presented in an accessible, visually compelling and thought-provoking manner, and will interest engaged citizens, experts, practitioners, activists and politicians alike.

http://oslotriennale.com/en/#publications

http://rotordb.org/project/2014_BehindTheGreenDoor_Book

http://rotordb.org/project/2013_OAT