As part of the collective effort to put on the exhibition, members of the Circular Construction Lab captured materials and video, conducted research and calculated environmental impacts, as well as curated and built the exhibition. Credits for the exhibition go to Cornell Circular Construction Lab (Felix Heisel, Allexxus Farley-Thomas, Andrew Boghossian, Melody Chen, Joseph McGranahan), Cornell Just Places Lab (Jennifer Minner, Wyeth Augustine-Marceil, Wen He), Susan Christopherson Center for Community Planning (Gretchen Worth), Historic Ithaca, Significant Elements (Susan Holland, Christine O’Malley), Finger Lakes ReUse (Diane Cohen), Contento Recycling (Anthony Contento). Thank you to generous support from the David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement, the Clarence S. Stein Institute for Urban and Landscape and the Cornell Department of City and Regional Planning and Fred Cowett and Diana Reisman.
Deconstructing -Demolition-
2022 - EXHIBITION
As a part of the partner network CR0WD (Circularity, Reuse and Zero Waste Development), the Circular Construction Lab and the Just Places Lab have been co-curating the exhibition Deconstructing Demolition. The exhibition was hosted from May 11th - September 3rd, 2022 in the atrium of the Tompkins Center for History and Culture located at 110 N. Tioga St. in downtown Ithaca, New York.
Combining physical building materials with augmented reality and interactive visuals, the exhibition introduced a general audience to the negative externalities of extant demolition practices and provided information on alternatives in the form of salvage, reuse and deconstruction. Alternatives to demolition were presented through the lenses of environmental sustainability, preservation of community value, employment opportunity, and a reimagining of our relationship with the built environment.
Deconstructing Demolition in the atrium of the Tompkins Center for History and Culture; image copyright: Anson Wigner/AAP
The exhibition focuses on the environmental and economic values of salvaged materials from local deconstruction projects; image copyright: Anson Wigner/AAP
In a comparison with the loss of materials and values at local demolition sites; image copyright: Anson Wigner/AAP
An average local residential house contains 64 tons of CO2e; image copyright: Anson Wigner/AAP
Deconstructing Demolition calculates and displays the embodied values of building materials; image copyright: Anson Wigner/AAP
And compares the embodied values of common building materials in general; image copyright: Anson Wigner/AAP
Deconstructing Demolition in the atrium of the Tompkins Center for History and Culture; image copyright: Anson Wigner/AAP
The exhibition focuses on the environmental and economic values of salvaged materials from local deconstruction projects; image copyright: Anson Wigner/AAP
In a comparison with the loss of materials and values at local demolition sites; image copyright: Anson Wigner/AAP
An average local residential house contains 64 tons of CO2e; image copyright: Anson Wigner/AAP
Deconstructing Demolition calculates and displays the embodied values of building materials; image copyright: Anson Wigner/AAP
And compares the embodied values of common building materials in general; image copyright: Anson Wigner/AAP
