Current Work: Toward Circular Construction, with Felix Heisel

The founder of Cornell’s Circular Construction Lab will discuss the built environment as a material depot for reuse and reconfiguration.

Current Work is a lecture series featuring leading figures in the worlds of architecture, urbanism, design, and art.

Event details

Founded in 2020 by Felix Heisel, the Circular Construction Lab (CCL) at Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art, and Planning houses a design research program that, at the core of its mission, advances the construction industry from linear material consumption to a circular economy. For CCL, this mission is two-fold: to activate the built environment as it currently exists for reuse and reconfiguration; and to design and construct buildings that can act as material depots for future construction. Working closely with academic, industrial, and political partners, CCL ensures the direct and full-scale implementation of its research, including policy white papers on deconstruction and building material reuse, toward a more sustainable construction industry

Learn more here.

Banner image: Circular Construction Lab | Catherine Commons Deconstruction Project, Ithaca, New York, 2021. Image credit: Jason Koski, UREL

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