W8 Project developement

Product/ building lifecycle

Through consideration of my future scenario and my W7 project direction an interrelated life-cycle has been identified which will impact upon my design heavily. Driven by waste management and manufacturing, this cycle creates a future proposed closed loop system, it relies upon future peoples changed attitudes towards waste management and customisation. So the way i predict my future building to work is that people will consume, as they do today, they produce waste, as they do today, but here is where our future scenario kicks in, the people RECYCLE. So the people recycle, you might argue people have been recycling for a long time but this is different and this is where the new technologies kick in, nano-tech will sort and disassemble waste products into their constituent components to be recycled in the new manufacturing processes with all organic by-passes going into the vertical farming processes. All except the organic constituents feed the manufacturing processes, producing products which in turn feeds consumption, and so the cycle continues but in an economically and environmentally feesable manner. 

Building function/ stacking

I have come up with the basic functions of my building. The design is aiming to integrate the above product/ building lifecycle through direct integration of the functions of the above lifecycle. So if the building provides a residence, a waste processing space, manufacturing space and a commercial 'retail' front the building in theory should become a self contained closed loop system.