“In the heart of Amsterdam’s financial district, [bank] ABN Amro has constructed a new building,” writes Studio RAP, the architectural design firm hired to fit out the space. “The addition to their existing headquarters is called the Circular Pavilion.”
“The circular construction paradigm stipulates that materials are applied as efficiently and effectively possible while waste materials are either reused or recycled. RAP proposed a design for the pavilion’s interior walls and balustrades where wooden strips, waste material from the production process of laminated frames, are reused in a parametrically controlled, robotic fabrication process.”
I could’ve done without the robot part, though I do have to admit the robotic assembly system they engineered looks terrifyingly efficient:
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One question: What did they do with the offcuts from the offcuts?
Source: core77