“Reinventing the discards of modern heritage through salvage and reuse” was a talk given on Oct.7, 2020 at the APT-NTC conference. Each of four examples relates to a post on the multiple fates of modern heritage in Ottawa.
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Tag: Building Materials
Construction Junction, Pittsburgh
A highlight of the Deconstruction and Reuse 2019 Conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was the field trip to Construction Junction. This massive salvaged building materials, appliances and furniture company located in the Homewood neighbourhood of Pittsburgh, is a veritable community repair and reuse hub.
Somewhere in between: material flows in Brussels
By Alison Creba. As I approach my destination, the industrial typology mixes with this attention to raw materials. Buildings themselves seem to look inwards onto that which they contain: used-cars dealers morph into scrap metal lots. Spacious yards reveal collections of building materials, rawly stacked and overgrown with purple Buddleia.
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Site visit notes: a Winnipeg Architectural Salvage institution
Keyword: Deconstruction Waste (Building)
Building deconstruction refers to the careful taking apart of a building to salvage its reusable materials and components.
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WASTE HERITAGE RESEARCH: deconstruction, salvage & re-use 