When designing a new construction building it is crucial to balance the creative freedom that the project offers which can also be informed by a client’s budget. If you are interested in the juxtaposition of antiquated artifacts and recently present compositions can be harmonized. Free-flowing abundances of material that come with the benefit of the chance that you can obtain recycled material for free! This project explores how the use of unlimited, repurposed materials can form expansive, free-flowing spaces that serve inter related functions of use.
Hello, my name is Justin Ankus, I am a 5th year architecture student from the suburbs of Chicago. This semester I have focused on creating architecture that responds to the mass abandonment of housing in Detroit. Demolition on a systematic and mass scale of abandoned homes has become a norm for Detroit. Our site in red is adjacent to lots that have already been demolished and can be a potential expanded side lot for the site as it is currently owned by the Detroit Land Bank Authority. The green squares represent recently completed demolitions in the area. Demolition has slowed down from around 10+ houses a day (in 2015) to currently around 5 a day for emergency demolitions only as federal funding no longer exists. These are some of the examples of houses that are scheduled for demolition, taken from google street view I found images from before their windows got boarded up to show the architectural integrity that exists in many of these houses. The costs for demolition is what the City of Detroit awards to private demolition contractors and part of this budget goes to waste disposal. Disrupting this flow of materials to landfills has economic and environmental benefits that my project inherits through its design. Dismantling abandoned homes can be accomplished by dissecting salvageable assemblies and systems with the careful removal of specific materials or items in various degrees to be selected depending on the condition and market desirability. A typical Detroit bungalow has the following quantities of potentially salvageable architectural elements. I am proposing that the dismantled pieces of a home can be brought to the Continental site to be sorted and curated for the public to purchase from the physical location and through online marketplaces.
This zone is dedicated to the dumping, cleaning, and sorting of bricks and other masonry units. Also the assembly of stackable steel cages to be filled with bricks happens here. This would be messy and very active area on the site.
Frequency and top words :
salvage building materials
Word | Occurrences | Frequency | Rank |
materials | 121 | 2.60% | 1 |
building | 97 | 2.10% | 2 |
salvage | 89 | 1.90% | 3 |
salvaged | 64 | 1.40% | 4 |
new | 43 | 0.90% | 5 |
reclaimed | 36 | 0.80% | 6 |
recycled | 33 | 0.70% | 7 |
home | 31 | 0.70% | 7 |
find | 30 | 0.60% | 8 |
elements | 27 | 0.60% | 8 |
value | 25 | 0.50% | 9 |
items | 25 | 0.50% | 9 |
used | 25 | 0.50% | 9 |
architectura l | 25 | 0.50% | 9 |
reuse | 25 | 0.50% | 9 |
savings | 23 | 0.50% | 9 |
construction | 23 | 0.50% | 9 |
flooring | 22 | 0.50% | 9 |
old | 21 | 0.50% | 9 |
demolition | 21 | 0.50% | 9 |
paint | 20 | 0.40% | 10 |
wood | 19 | 0.40% | 10 |
lead | 19 | 0.40% | 10 |
yard | 18 | 0.40% | 10 |
online | 18 | 0.40% | 10 |
material | 18 | 0.40% | 10 |
make | 18 | 0.40% | 10 |
looking | 16 | 0.30% | 11 |
pieces | 16 | 0.30% | 11 |
chicago | 16 | 0.30% | 11 |
good | 15 | 0.30% | 11 |
doors | 15 | 0.30% | 11 |
fixtures | 15 | 0.30% | 11 |
use | 15 | 0.30% | 11 |
you’re | 15 | 0.30% | 11 |
time | 15 | 0.30% | 11 |
salvaging | 15 | 0.30% | 11 |
add | 14 | 0.30% | 11 |
plumbing | 14 | 0.30% | 11 |
many | 14 | 0.30% | 11 |
these | 14 | 0.30% | 11 |
quality | 13 | 0.30% | 11 |
stores | 13 | 0.30% | 11 |
before | 13 | 0.30% | 11 |
homes | 13 | 0.30% | 11 |
our | 13 | 0.30% | 11 |
cost | 12 | 0.30% | 11 |
price | 12 | 0.30% | 11 |
mccarthy | 12 | 0.30% | 11 |
per | 12 | 0.30% | 11 |
best | 12 | 0.30% | 11 |
average | 12 | 0.30% | 11 |
should | 12 | 0.30% | 11 |
windows | 12 | 0.30% | 11 |
those | 12 | 0.30% | 11 |
it’s | 11 | 0.20% | 12 |
older | 11 | 0.20% | 12 |
using | 11 | 0.20% | 12 |
money | 11 | 0.20% | 12 |
secondhand | 11 | 0.20% | 12 |
get | 11 | 0.20% | 12 |
buildings | 11 | 0.20% | 12 |
less | 11 | 0.20% | 12 |
like | 11 | 0.20% | 12 |
landfills | 10 | 0.20% | 12 |
great | 10 | 0.20% | 12 |
community | 10 | 0.20% | 12 |
room | 10 | 0.20% | 12 |
steel | 10 | 0.20% | 12 |
being | 10 | 0.20% | 12 |
interior | 10 | 0.20% | 12 |
every | 9 | 0.20% | 12 |
improve | 9 | 0.20% | 12 |
check | 9 | 0.20% | 12 |
cheap | 9 | 0.20% | 12 |
yards | 9 | 0.20% | 12 |
basement | 9 | 0.20% | 12 |
house | 9 | 0.20% | 12 |
home’s | 9 | 0.20% | 12 |
recycling | 9 | 0.20% | 12 |
local | 9 | 0.20% | 12 |
real | 9 | 0.20% | 12 |
win | 9 | 0.20% | 12 |
getting | 9 | 0.20% | 12 |
might | 9 | 0.20% | 12 |
common | 9 | 0.20% | 12 |
right | 9 | 0.20% | 12 |
others | 9 | 0.20% | 12 |
expensive | 9 | 0.20% | 12 |
know | 9 | 0.20% | 12 |
oak | 9 | 0.20% | 12 |
according | 9 | 0.20% | 12 |
answers | 9 | 0.20% | 12 |
space | 9 | 0.20% | 12 |
lumber | 9 | 0.20% | 12 |
people | 9 | 0.20% | 12 |
antique | 8 | 0.20% | 12 |
need | 8 | 0.20% | 12 |
while | 8 | 0.20% | 12 |
market | 8 | 0.20% | 12 |
energy | 8 | 0.20% | 12 |
reused | 8 | 0.20% | 12 |
www | 8 | 0.20% | 12 |
want | 8 | 0.20% | 12 |
org | 8 | 0.20% | 12 |
able | 8 | 0.20% | 12 |
glass | 8 | 0.20% | 12 |
near | 8 | 0.20% | 12 |
deconstructi on | 8 | 0.20% | 12 |
help | 7 | 0.20% | 12 |
sense | 7 | 0.20% | 12 |
doesn’t | 7 | 0.20% | 12 |
counterparts | 7 | 0.20% | 12 |
willing | 7 | 0.20% | 12 |
hazards | 7 | 0.20% | 12 |
mean | 7 | 0.20% | 12 |
something | 7 | 0.20% | 12 |
molding | 7 | 0.20% | 12 |
door | 7 | 0.20% | 12 |
drywall | 7 | 0.20% | 12 |
green | 7 | 0.20% | 12 |
selling | 7 | 0.20% | 12 |
post | 7 | 0.20% | 12 |
include | 7 | 0.20% | 12 |
costs | 7 | 0.20% | 12 |
better | 7 | 0.20% | 12 |
can’t | 7 | 0.20% | 12 |
sale | 7 | 0.20% | 12 |
contain | 6 | 0.10% | 13 |
[source | 6 | 0.10% | 13 |
neighbors | 6 | 0.10% | 13 |
sources | 6 | 0.10% | 13 |
mantelpiece | 6 | 0.10% | 13 |
appraiser | 6 | 0.10% | 13 |
lineal | 6 | 0.10% | 13 |
boards | 6 | 0.10% | 13 |
agent | 6 | 0.10% | 13 |
painted | 6 | 0.10% | 13 |
kitchen | 6 | 0.10% | 13 |
rid | 6 | 0.10% | 13 |
you’ll | 6 | 0.10% | 13 |
attic | 6 | 0.10% | 13 |
cpsc | 6 | 0.10% | 13 |
down | 6 | 0.10% | 13 |
foot | 6 | 0.10% | 13 |
sink | 6 | 0.10% | 13 |
heart | 6 | 0.10% | 13 |
pedestal | 6 | 0.10% | 13 |
pay | 6 | 0.10% | 13 |
buy | 6 | 0.10% | 13 |
panel | 6 | 0.10% | 13 |
crown | 6 | 0.10% | 13 |
finding | 6 | 0.10% | 13 |
boost | 6 | 0.10% | 13 |
houses | 6 | 0.10% | 13 |
partner | 6 | 0.10% | 13 |
light | 6 | 0.10% | 13 |
whether | 6 | 0.10% | 13 |
law | 6 | 0.10% | 13 |
depot | 6 | 0.10% | 13 |
sites | 6 | 0.10% | 13 |
consider | 6 | 0.10% | 13 |
products | 6 | 0.10% | 13 |
search | 6 | 0.10% | 13 |
often | 6 | 0.10% | 13 |
useful | 6 | 0.10% | 13 |
contractors | 6 | 0.10% | 13 |