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Lifecycle Building Challenge
About the challenge
The Lifecycle Building Challenge is a free national, web-based competition invites engineers, designers, architects, planners, contractors, builders, educators and students in any field to submit innovative ideas related to deconstruction - creating buildings that can be easily taken apart so that you can reuse the building materials.
Entry categories are Student, Professional Built, Professional Unbuilt in Building and Innovation categories.
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A window on the world
Echo Studio’s entry focused, basically, on rethinking planter boxes and windows.
From the Entry Description:
Windows are a) the prime building components which allow us to experience our environment; b) places a building occupant may most effectively and visibly personalize their environment; c) respond more inadequately to changing technology and are likely be replaced and/or reclaimed over the life of the building. Two proprietary systems - the *BioSaddlebag*TM and *LouveRedi*TM windows - will allow windows to fully address a connection to the exterior, personalization, and eventual obsolescence.
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- Submission 2008
- Team Dave Hampton, Michael Repkin
- Special thanks Ken Ortiz and the OBI Deconstruction crew, Mark Kutek of Virtus Fidus Probo Corp.