[Collecting System]
by Julio Castro, Cecilia Wendt, Rikke Luther and Brett Bloom
[Collecting System] is a system that is made for collecting unused materials, to be used in local daily life.
[Collecting System] is made for collecting unused material, to be used for education, research and other things.
Info about [Collecting System] in practice:
In Japan, unused materials produced by household are state property and controlled by the state. However, in many municipalities, the collecting system of unused materials is privatized, but even so information of the collecting system is still produced and managed by the municipalities. Parallel to this pirate companies are collecting unused materials. This means that it is difficult for anybody to get access to the production of unused materials.
In Japan, most of the unused materials are named as “Valued Garbage”. Much of the unused materials are being shipped to areas where it is inexpensive to have it transformed and sold as new products; containers etcetera.
The [Collecting System] was set up in Moriya, Japan 2004. It collected shredded paper and cardboard, for experiments with producing [Paper Brick], for constructing insulated dwellings [Paper Dwelling > Learning by Sea Urchin, Model 1:1], and making [Walking City].
[Collecting System] is going to be established in a periphery zone of the city of Monterrey, Mexico, 2005.
In this area there are about 300 families living on squatted land. The economy of the place is constituted by self employment and from collecting unused materials from which they obtain construction materials that later on are used for building temporary dwellings. A way to have more sustainable housing is to merge into the already existing and expanding urban planning of the city. This is done by using the same architectonic traits as legal dwellings. Concrete is used as a main material, which is a big local industry.
[Collecting System] will copy the economy and methods that are carried out in the area in order to research materials for building systems and dwellings.
Learning Poster #001, 2005.
By Julio Castro, Cecilia Wendt, Rikke Luther and Brett Bloom
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