Prototypologies of Circularity

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Acknowledgments

We thank the David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement, the Atkinson Center for Sustainability, and the Cornell Department of Architecture for their generous support of the above-described research projects. We further thank our research partners and students for their incredible engagement, trust, and creativity: Dave Bennink and the Building Deconstruction Institute; Kasey Eiklor, Dave Marsh, and Local Laborers 785; Gideon Stone and Trade Design Build; Diane Cohen and Finger Lakes ReUse; Susan Holland and Historic Ithaca/Significant Elements, Gretchen Worth and the Susan Christopherson Center for Community Planning, Jenni Minner and the Just Places Lab; Dan Bergsagel and sbp NYC; Adam Boecker, Eduardo Cilleruelo Teran, Susan Cook, Kimberly Faber, Allexxus Farley-Thomas, Lauren Franco, Lulin He, Grace O’Malley, Maxwell Rodencal, Shelby Taylor, Connor Yocum, and Yao Wang.

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Felix Heisel

Felix Heisel is an Assistant Professor and Circular Construction Lab Director at Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art, and Planning. His scholarship focuses on the systemic redesign of the built environment as a material depot of endless use and reconfiguration. He has received awards and has published on circularity, most recently, Building Better—Less—Different: Circular Construction and Circular Economy (2022).

Marta H. Wisniewska

Marta H. Wisniewska is a Lecturer and Director of the Regenerative Architecture Lab at Cornell University’s Architecture Department. Her research and teaching focus on healthy, alternative, and renewable materials that shift the construction industry to practices that fit within a circular economy. She coauthored the books Building from Waste: Recovered Materials in Architecture and Construction, City in Your Hands, and Addis Ababa: A Manifesto on African Progress.

Joseph McGranahan

Joseph McGranahan is a Research Associate in the Circular Construction Lab at Cornell University. His research focuses on developing digital tools to assess material content, embodied carbon, and circularity within the built environment, ranging from construction assemblies to entire cities. His work on creating a material stock model for the City of Ithaca was published in Resources, Conservation & Recycling.