Architects Journal have published Home Farm in their First Look series this morning. Click this link to read the full article.
Our practice has long focused on in-use energy and embodied carbon. On this project, we wanted to lean into something harder: procuring and using a broad range of recycled, circular-economy materials, with all the technical, logistical and procurement challenges that come with them.
One of the biggest lessons we learned was designing in flexibility. When you start, you don’t know which materials you’ll end up with, so the concept has to absorb the variation that comes with found and reclaimed stock.
That means a design that is robust and simple, yet still beautiful and aspirational. This became core learning for our practice.
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