Completion: 2015 - Second year of BSc at Cardiff University

This was a design studio that was run and led by Hugo Keene and Matt Chan. It is a collaborative studio between first and second year architecture students to work collectively on a design-build project. The purpose of the studio was to recondition our thinking towards a culture of upcycling and reuse. 

The project’s site was located at Chelvey Farm, and our brief was to design and build a composting toilet for the facilities on site.

The materials that were collected were from visiting recycling centres, waste disposal sites and farms to collect items that had been considered as waste. It was enjoyable to find value in these discarded objects by highlighting the positive characteristics and usefulness of a variety of objects. The materials that we ended up using included: coloured tubes, timber that had been considered imperfect, and sheets of polycarbonate.