Flatpack Architecture: Investigating Circularity Through Temporary, Demountable Buildings

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Thomas Bryans

Thomas Bryans is an Architect and Cofounder of the London-based architecture practice IF_DO. Bryans leads the practice’s research projects and is passionate about a holistic approach to architecture: creating sustainable, beautiful, and useful buildings that will be of long-term value to the communities and environment around them. He explored these ideas in his TEDx talk “Architecture’s Ripple Effect: Designing for Big Impact.” In 2020 he was named one of the Architect’s Journal’s “40-under-40.”

Emily Berwyn

Emily Berwyn is the Founder and Director of the pioneering social enterprise Meanwhile Space. As the market leader in Meanwhile uses since 2009, Meanwhile Space designs innovative community-led solutions to vacant space, from demountable structures to retrofitting challenging redundant spaces. These multi-award-winning projects create better places to live and work by working with communities to bring disused space into affordable temporary use.

Peter Swallow

Peter Swallow is the Sustainability Lead for Grimshaw’s London, Paris, and Dubai studios. His work focuses on developing net-zero carbon and regenerative (net-positive) solutions for the built environment. He currently leads Grimshaw’s involvement in the EU-Horizon2020 funded Circular Construction in Regenerative Cities project (circuit-project.eu) and recently collaborated with the University of Cambridge to develop a carbon/energy/cost decision support tool—see https://www.refficiency.org/ecm/energy-cost-metric/.

Colin Rose

Colin Rose, PhD, is a Strategic Advisor for the Built Environment at ReLondon, a Senior Research Fellow at University College London (UCL), and a UK CLT LLP Founding Partner. He contributes to the CIRCuIT project at ReLondon and leads circular economy research investigating the reuse of secondary timber at UCL. He is the winner of Ramboll’s Flemming Bligaard Award 2020.