Elma Durmisevic
Mario Kordic
Nasiha Pozder
Thorsten Nölle
Ron Jacobs
Dubravko Bačić
Admir Kulin
Duncan Baker-Brown
Roberta Zarcone
Selma Harrington
Igor Kuvac
Tijana Tufek Memisevic
Joost Declerq
Senada Demirovic
Sanela Klaric
Gil Peled
Gilli Hobsb
Haris Bradić
Duncan Baker-Brown
Founder of BakerBrown, Climate Literacy Champion (Principal Lecturer) at the School of Architecture Technology & Engineering (ATE) University of Brighton, Member of RIBA Council, Co-Chair RIBA Climate Emergency Expert Advisory Group, Architects Climate Action Network (ACAN), Architects Declare Steering Committee, Member of Brighton & Hove City Circular Economy Oversight Board, Member of South Downs National Park Design Review Panel, Member of Governance Board for UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard Brief Biography Duncan is a practicing architect, academic and environmental activist. Author of ‘The Re-Use Atlas: a designer’s guide towards a circular economy’ published by RIBA, he has practised, researched, and taught around issues of sustainable development and closed-looped systems for more than 25 years. He recently founded BakerBrown, a research-led architectural practice and consultancy created to address the huge demands presented by the climate and ecological emergency as well as the challenges of designing in a post-COVID world. Over the years Duncan’s practices (and academic ‘live’ projects) have won numerous accolades including RIBA National Awards and a special award from The Stephen Lawrence Prize for the Brighton Waste House – the prize money has since been used to set up a student prize for circular, closed loop design at the University of Brighton where Duncan teaches. Duncan has worked on projects as diverse as ‘The Greenwich Millennium Village’ in London, the RIBA’s ‘House of the Future’, the multi-award-winning ‘Brighton Waste House’ and recently he designed a new building for Glyndebourne Opera that will be constructed from waste flows and organic materials grown on site. Duncan is currently working on schemes for Net-Zero Carbon social housing with Brighton & Hove City Council, where he has recently lead on drafting of their recently published Circular Economy Route Map.
Duncan is currently Module Coordinator for both undergraduate Technology and Professional Practices. He is Principal Investigator for two EU Interreg research programmes focussing on the re-use of construction waste, building deconstruction and re-construction. Duncan curated and organised the recent international digital summer school in August 2021. Named ‘The School of Re-construction’, it asked 11 teams of students (totalling. 80+), and team leaders from across the world, to consider the social, economic, political, ethical, phenomenological and environmental issues associated with re-use or ‘Mining the Anthropocene’ as BakerBrown calls it. Duncan is principal investigator for the University of Brighton steering a year-long study into affordable strategies for low carbon retrofitting of social housing for seven local authorities known as The Greater Brighton Economic Board
Opening address:
18:00 h
17 October 2024
The Re-USE ATLAS
The Re-USE ATLAS with insight and inspiration for material reuse. Packed with beautiful yet practical projects from every continent and context, it’s a glorious celebration of the materials we build with – and the infinite creativity that lies in their reuse. If you are looking to learn from many of the world’s most inventive and expert circular designers, this is it. Dive in.
This new edition has 40 case studies of architecture projects testing the opportunities an authentic presents the construction sector – whether that is deconstruction and reuse, adaptive retrofit or full-on closed loop ultra-low carbon beautiful buildings! The foreword is by Professor Graeme Brooker from Royal College of Art, with a preface by the inventor of the term CircularEconomy Walter R. Stahel, plus contributions from the Dr David Greenfield, Freegle’s inspiring Cat Fletcher, the University of Brighton’s Nick Gant and Jonathan Chapman
Case studies feature the work of Local Works Studio Limited, BIOHM BakerBrown Superuse Rotor vzw-asbl Architype Cleveland Steel & Tubes Ltd Hans Hammink MarksBarfield Architects Lendager Metabolic Elma Durmisevic Madaster UK Lagemaat Sloopwerken B.V. LACATON & VASSAL 02 Retrofit Action For Tomorrow Flores & Prats Architects Arup Grimshaw Francis Kéré Thomas M. Rau architectenbureau cepezed Overtreders W Footprint Architects Jaakko Torvinen Hawkins\Brown Excess Materials Exchange Waugh Thistleton Architects and many others.