Lifecycle Building Challenge 2

Call for Entries!
Lifecycle Building Challenge 2
designing this building and the next
www.lifecyclebuilding.org

LBC2 is a national competition - open to students and professionals - that challenges creative minds to develop lifecycle building strategies to facilitate deconstruction and building material reuse.

Lifecycle building - also known as design for deconstruction - is the design of building materials, components, information systems, and management practices to create buildings that facilitate and anticipate future changes to and eventual adaptation or dismantling for recovery of all systems, components, and materials.

LBC2 is sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency (U. S. EPA) and the American Institute of Architects (AIA).

Some outstanding examples from Lifecycle Building Challenge 2007:

GreenMobile
Factory-built housing Units for SE USA Adaptable mobile home unit for disaster relief and permanent use
Michael Berk - Mississippi State University School of Architecture

The GreenMobile â„¢ envisions affordable, factory-built energy efficient mobile home units that meet International Residential Code for housing with structurally-sound foundations, demountable for easy relocation, and can function in a place with a limited infrastructure or no utility grid in-place. They can be used for immediate disaster relief housing (including first responders) and later converted to permanent housing. This project will incorporate systematic strategies for growth and change as family structures also grow and change. “Pre-fabricated plug-in” rooms, plug-in porches, and surface mounted wiring are also featured in this design.

Transformative Multi-family Housing
Shape shifting residential and office space
Koji Saida, Mimi Sullivan, Hyun Joo Choi, Keiko Ito - Architects at Saida + Sullivan Design Partners

The transformative multi-family housing is a mixed use project with 12 residential units and one retail space on the ground level. By standardizing all the building components and using a simple connection system, the entire building’s components can be easily deconstructed, reused and recycled. Housing which standardizes all the building components using a simple connection system. By exchanging some standardized wall panels, a 2 bedroom unit transforms into a 3 bedroom unit and by removing all non bearing walls, the three residential units which are grouped as typical can be transformed into an office use.

Pavilion in the Park
Building that separates into four modules and can be moved by truck
David Miller - The Miller|Hull Partnership

The 11,100 square foot Pavilion in the Park’s entire structure is designed for future transportation, reassembly and reuse in a new location. The building’s parts separate at three integrated joints to break into four separate modules that can be moved on trucks by surface street. The building sits lightly on the land atop short concrete piers allowing the grade and vegetation to run uninterrupted beneath. Gangway ramps with integrated hinged joints, allow the ramps to adapt to the topography of future locations.