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2012 ARCHITECTS views re-use as an integrated design strategy, and, working under the name Superuse, is busy creating a knowledge database for the simpler and more efficient re-use in the construction industry. However, ecological considerations are not their only motivation. Equally important, in their view, is the creative inspiration they draw from the potentialities of recovered objects. The qualities that are inherent in used products and materials offer potential added-value when incorporated in new products and compositions: the ready-made principle of art applied to architecture. For 2012 the re-use concept applies as well to the material world as to energy, human resources and water. Ultimately leading to very contemporary design integrating all off these aspects.
It is time to quit thinking in lineair processes that end with products but also with a lot of wasted energy and resources. The time has come to start designing cyclic processes and reconnecting them.
2012 is, then, an example of a new kind of architectural practice, that of ‘process architecture’, in which the design is seen not as the start of a linear process that ends with the building’s handover, but rather as a phase in a continuous stream of creation and recreation.
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