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Issue 7:2

Circularity

Climate explores and defines the roles of architecture, design, and technology in meeting the challenges facing our communities from current and forecasted changes in climate. Climate change continues to be a major problem facing our communities worldwide. In what way does climate change affect our understanding of the role of architecture and technology within our communities? How can we better define the role of architecture and technology in addressing climate change? How can we prepare for a future with more extreme climate conditions and the associated socioeconomic and political problems? Can architecture take a leadership role in transforming the built environment from part of the problem to part of the solution? How can we change the current value system that rewards aesthetics over performance and environmental impact? Is architectural education providing future architects with the values, knowledge, and skillsets needed to tackle climate change effectively?

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Sustain This
How should we discuss the most pressing issue: saving our home world? Is it a matter of sustainable resilience...
Sustain This
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Circularity at Scale 
When a newly developed technology to carry passengers vertically on an ascending platform between floors in buildings...
Circularity at Scale 
7.2
The Removal Chain & Sentient Life Cycles
As our cities are growing, managing waste is becoming increasingly challenging. Global plastic waste is set to...
The Removal Chain & Sentient Life Cycles
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Towards Layered Permanence in the Sustainable Design of Buildings 
Among the approaches of circular construction, the reuse of buildings is the most desirable as it leaves a large...
Towards Layered Permanence in the Sustainable Design of Buildings 
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Research into Practice: Tying Two Ends of a String Together
The disciplines of architecture and, even more so, civil engineering have always held an inherent research approach....
Research into Practice: Tying Two Ends of a String Together
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Materials as Design Tool: Digital Fabrication Strategies for Sustainable Architecture 
The building industry is responsible for consuming almost 45% of all extracted resources and producing nearly 40%...
Materials as Design Tool: Digital Fabrication Strategies for Sustainable Architecture 
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Flatpack Architecture: Investigating Circularity Through Temporary, Demountable Buildings 
Vacant lots exist in every city, and like land everywhere they carry inherent potential—socially, economically,...
Flatpack Architecture: Investigating Circularity Through Temporary, Demountable Buildings 
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Prototypologies of Circularity 
The concept of a circular economy represents a way to overcome the current linear financial system’s social,...
Prototypologies of Circularity 
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The Resource Rows 
The growing urbanization across many parts of the world requires prolific building materials with significant environmental...
The Resource Rows 
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The Ingenuity of Circularity 
A “circular economy” or “circularity” model embodies reducing, reusing, and recycling principles1. This...
The Ingenuity of Circularity