Agro-Waste Design: Husks, Bagasse and Straw Transformed into Efficient Building Materials

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The concept of upcycling refers to taking an item that would be considered waste and improving it in order to make it useful again, adding value and new functionality to it. This is a common word in several industries, such as fashion and furniture. In civil construction, this concept can also be incorporated, making the waste generated by the industry itself recirculate or even bringing what would be discarded from other industries to be processed and incorporated into constructions. This is the case of transforming agricultural waste into building materials, bringing a new use to discards, reducing the use of raw materials and creating products with excellent characteristics.

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Duplex on a Hillside / MWArchitekten. Image © Adolf Bereuter
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Cite: Souza, Eduardo. "Agro-Waste Design: Husks, Bagasse and Straw Transformed into Efficient Building Materials" [Agro-waste: resíduos como cascas, bagaço e palha transformados em materiais de construção eficientes] 03 Feb 2022. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/976034/agro-waste-design-husks-bagasse-and-straw-transformed-into-efficient-building-materials> ISSN 0719-8884

Ecologic Pavilion In Alsace / Studio 1984. Image Cortesia de Studio 1984

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