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The Waste House project on the Grand Parade Campus University of Brighton was conceived and directed by architect Duncan Baker-Brown. It makes a unique contribution to the consideration of an alternative approach to the construction of our built environment. For every five houses built in the UK the equivalent of one house is created in waste . Nick and Tanya helped form projects that compliment the project with interior resource library of waste materials created by staff and students on 3D Design and Craft and Textile Design. Throughout the project Cat Fletcher (of Freegle) helped lead the resourcing of materials which has now become an ongoing resource model for our students.

Nick also worked with long term collaborator and maker Jim Wilson to form an exterior exhibition also made from waste materials, that became the back-drop to an Arts Council funded exhibition as part of the One Planet Living project directed by Nina Emmett and Fotoworks.

Student Claire Evans helped establish the exterior vernacular of the building by using carpet tiles and various interior furniture also created by staff and students utilise materials such as dog hair, carrier bags and plastics sourced from the roadside.

The project challenges the status-quo of house building in the UK and beyond and provides a counter-provocation and alternate model for the reuse of building and construction waste in the development of sustainable, social housing built by communities for communities. The construction was formed by school children, students and college apprentices in collaboration with building and site managers Mears Construction.

Added by: Nick Gant