Fabricating Eco-Dwellings with Elemental Junk-Frames

Architects can be the driving force in the search of smart solutions both for the social housing and the built environmental crisis, bridging these two factors through providing affordable housing designs (as sheds or emergency houses) by using disused or junk materials in eco-buildings. Starting with the premises that there is no waste but only transformable resources, design researchers have the possibility to detect the potentialities within low-value materials and find the optimum way to reuse them as building components for frameworks. The study will show the optimum way of using the material both as a structural support, skins or furniture; its assembling process by combining with other materials, as well as its climatic and programmatic adaptability. Two case studies will be presented in depth as elemental prefabricate solutions, pallets and tyres housing systems, as well as the research workshop ‘Minimum Prefab House’ developed at IAAC in Barcelona