Reclaimed building materials

STC Arquitectos builds cabin in Argentinian woods with reclaimed materials

Designing and building with reclaimed structural components. The most sustainable construction materials are those we already have. Reusing what already exists is at the heart of circular construction and a fundamental element of more sustainable architecture. The two-week design & build workshop „Ephemeral Permanence 1:1“, part of the 5th International Conference on Structures and Architecture 2022 in Aalborg, Denmark, explored the reuse of construction components as novel material and soci

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Wall cladding formed from recycled timber offcuts gathered from local furniture-makers. Designed by Anne-Sophie Poirier (aka Sasufi) for Slowpoke Espresso, a small café in Melbourne, Australia.

100 year old fir reclaimed from an abandoned grain storehouse was used as a screen of wooden fins to create a modern building facade.

Reclaimed wood is attractive and eco-friendly, but where do you get it? Here's a primer to help you locate a source online or in your neighborhood.

Home Grown in the Byron Hinterland, Hemp Habitat is an R&D practice by Balanced Earth co-founder Luke Wrencher, culminating his life’s work of conscious building and artistic expression. The result is an off-grid, natural home formed from reclaimed timbers and 65 tonnes of hempcrete.

These are box beams made with the outside skins of 150 year old Hand Hewn beams. These are not faux beams made with new wood made to look old. Using Vintage reclaimed beam material to make our box beams gives them a look that is hard to telll them apart from a real 150 year old hewn beam.

Limited Collection WasteBasedBricks® by StoneCycling - The WasteBasedBrick® is our proof that it’s possible to build high-quality, aesthetic structures from waste. Our Mission: Advancing the development, use and reuse of planet-friendly aesthetic building materials.

The facade is clad with 600 recycled cable reels. According to Jongert, "It took about seven minutes to dismantle each one, yielding quite a lot of wood each time." The wood was heat-treated at high temperatures, a natural weatherproofing technique.

Built by Arturo Franco in Madrid, Spain with date 2009. Images by Carlos Fernández Piñar. In a small nave of the old slaughterhouse of Madrid, nave 8B, the tiles of a roof in disrepair have been removed, pil...

With environmental concerns propelling a concerted drive toward more sustainable construction processes, notable instances of designers utilizing salvaged materials in new and inventive ways have proliferated over the last decade. The upcycling phenomenon has long been big business in industrial design, with luxury furniture showrooms such as Espasso illustrating that the textured patina of reclaimed…

The project was built for and commissioned by the Sneha Charitable Trust which imparts training and mentoring for People Living with HIV(PLHIV). Located at Carmelaram, Bangalore, it is centered around a candle making workshop with ancillary spaces comprising of a display unit, a store and a seminar hall envisioned as an inclusive space to showcase the various activities run by the trust. The site chosen within the 10 acre property dotted with several trees all of which was retained and the…

Image 10 of 33 from gallery of Saunalahti School / VERSTAS Architects. Photograph by Andreas Meichsner

Waste materials that are reclaimed for new structures can be as simple as a bunch of stacked tires or a boat that’s no longer seaworthy, or as complex as old stone bricks re-sculpted to look like new. They can be roughly cobbled together into rustic cabins, or masterfully incorporated into stunning modern residences along with […]

Totan Kuzembaev Architects - Smoker’s room, Chekhov 2010. Photos (C) the architect.