What Does Circular Building Look Like?
This event was part of Circular City Week––the biggest circular economy festival in the United States. Circular City Week 2022 was from May 2nd to May 8th.
The highest cost of a building is its role in accelerating climate change, a detriment to the environment and consequently to human health.
Architect Åshild Wangensteen Bjørvik, from MAD Architecture, leads us through their journey of making Norway’s first commercial building KA13, in Oslo made of 80% recycled materials, putting reused building materials on center stage.
Introductions are given by Parsons Healthy Materials Lab’s Cristina Handal and Jonsara Ruth.
About Mad Architecture
Mad Architecture thinks that good architecture and design must be founded on knowledge about the local community’s needs and local context, and they always design on behalf of the city. For Mad, each project is extraordinary – and they want all projects to contribute to positive and sustainable change.
Mad always challenges established practices in the search for new and better answers to how they can better meet climate and social challenges, with architecture, design, and knowledge of urban and location development. They practice challenging each other, their customers, advisers, and municipalities to find the right solution for exactly the place and the task that they are working on at all times.
Today Mad has a leading position in Norway regarding architecture and design based on reusable materials. Their overarching goal is to inspire more reuse architecture around the globe.
About Åshild Wangensteen Bjørvik
Architect, partner, and CEO of Mad Oslo Åshild Wangensteen Bjørvik (born 1977 in Norway) was educated at NTNU in Norway and ENSAPLV in France. She has more than 19 years of experience as an architect and joined Mad in 2008. Åshild has been the team leader of several large-scale urban projects, including the Mad building in Oslo and Media City Bergen. She has also worked with the cutting-edge re-use project in Kristian Augusts gate 13. Her main goal as a CEO is to inspire, build high-performance teams and make people work well together.