Construction Reform
Building a culture of reuse.
A decarbonisation institute that questions unnecessary construction. The proposal brings material intake, sorting, storage and redistribution together with research and public learning. Its organisation makes the processes of reuse visible, connecting advocacy with the practical work of reform.
Academic collaboration · Leonardo Ramia and Ryan Hennessy · Tutor: Jasper Ludewig
Questioning the need to build.
Construction Reform proposes an institute organised around four connected activities: Advocate, Enable, Circulate and Reform. Public learning sits alongside material handling and research into alternatives.
The Sankey diagram connects activities and spatial allocations across the institute.
The relationship between programme groups is explored in two and three dimensions.
From material cycle to spatial order.
The design develops from a conceptual reading of decarbonisation into an operational sequence: intake, sort, store and dispatch. Further studies test how that organisation can respond to different sites.
A sequence of transformations links the conceptual diagram with the institute’s programme.
Comparative organisational studies explore how the programme changes with its setting.
A connected institute in the landscape.
Drafted drawings develop the proposal’s spatial organisation and relationship to changing ground levels. Collage studies then explore the occupation and atmosphere of the same spaces.
The plan locates the principal programme areas and their connections.
Two sections describe spatial relationships and the building’s meeting with the terrain.
Lower-ground and ground-level studies explore occupation within the proposal.
The relationship between interior space, planting and changes in level.
Reuse as a design decision.
The proposed material hierarchy prioritises retention and reuse, followed by recycling and repurposing. New material is introduced only where necessary. The assembly study explores salvaged structure and alternative materials.
Reused trusses, recovered materials and proposed alternatives are brought together in an assembly study.
Testing the wider argument.
These related studies support the Studio 4 investigation. They are presented separately from the Mount Tomah proposal.
A related site and programme study from the shared review submission. Drawing credited to Ryan Hennessy.
Leonardo Ramia’s analysis of Alvar Aalto’s town hall, examining organisation, thresholds, compression and release. Precedent study, not a proposed design.
Construction Reform
Academic collaboration · Leonardo Ramia and Ryan Hennessy · Tutor: Jasper Ludewig
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