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  • See Also:
  • Bio-diversity
  • Bio-mimicary
  • Bio-remediation
  • Circular Economy
  • Circular Materials
  • Circularity
  • Mechanical Remediation
  • Permaculture
  • Remediation
  • Soil Remediation

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Regenerative Design:

(Wikipedia ’24)

REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE:

(Wikipedia ’24)

What is Regenerative Architecture?

  • Limits of Sustainable Design, System Thinking Approach and the Future
  • A heavily cited fact within the architecture industry is that the built environment accounts for 40% of global carbon emissions.
  • The concerning statistic puts immense responsibility on construction professionals.
  • The idea of sustainability in architecture urgently emerged as a way of bandaging environmental damage.
  • A wide range of sustainability practices aims no higher than making buildings “less bad”, serving as inadequate measures for current and future architecture. The problem with sustainable architecture is that it stops with ‘sustaining’.
  • In order to maintain the current state of the environment, the architecture community has been working towards greener means of production.
  • Conventionally, a green building employs active or passive features as a tool for reduction and conservation.
  • Most sustainable designs view buildings as a vessel of their own rather than integrated parts of their ecosystem.
  • With the planet’s current needs, this approach is not enough. It is not enough to sustain the natural environment, but also restore its processes.

What is Regenerative Architecture?
Regenerative biology:

  • In biology, regeneration refers to the ability to renew, restore or grow tissues in organisms and ecosystems in accordance with natural fluctuations.
  • When applied to building design, this can look like structures that mimic restorative aspects found in nature.
  • Regenerative architecture is the practice of engaging the natural world as the medium for and generator of architecture.
  • Living systems on the site become the building blocks of the structure built in harmony with the overall ecosystem.
  • Regenerative architecture demands a forward-thinking approach. In contrast to sustainably designed buildings, regenerative buildings are designed and operated to reverse ecological damage and have a net-positive impact on the natural environment.
  • Shifting from a sustainability lens to a regenerative one means that architects should question how we can design structures that not only use limited resources but also restore them.
  • Regeneration also seeks to facilitate a more resilient environment that can resist natural challenges.

Regenerative vs. Sustainable Design

  • Sustainable and regenerative design may seem like different approaches – sustainability limits resource use, while regeneration replenishes them.
  • Sustainability, however, is a subset of a larger regenerative model.
  • Both methods overlap and incorporate similar practices, each emphasizing different green goals.
  • Just as ‘reduce’, ‘reuse’ and ‘recycle’ can’t operate in isolation, sustainability practices lend a hand towards regenerative goals by forming the first step towards replenishing resources – limiting their consumption.
  • One way both practices differ is in their scale of interventions.
  • Regenerative design demands architecture be seen as an extension of the place, the site, the flora and fauna, and the ecosystem.
  • Buildings are treated as part of a larger system, helping to produce and share resources like clean water, energy, and food.
  • For example, Splitterwerk and ARUP’s SolarLeaf bio-reactive façade generates renewable energy from algal biomass and solar heat.
  • The energy generated can be used by the building, stored for future use, or provided to the utility grid.

Systems Thinking in Architecture 

  • When designing a regenerative environment, it is important to adopt a systems approach to thinking. All relevant and contributing entities must be considered, measuring their networks of impact on the overall ecosystem. The design must account for how a building relates to the microclimate, or how the soil can support local flora. The designed system must allow for mutually supportive relationships between entities, making sure that there is equal give and take. Each relationship builds on the other to create a strong, thriving human-nature ecosystem.
  • “Sustainability is all about systems and making sure we’re thinking about the entire picture so we can address a problem from all angles”, writes Nabil Nasr, the Director of the Golisano Institute for Sustainability.
  • Rather than employing sustainable design elements as a method of greenwashing, architects must develop a deeper understanding of eco-architecture through a systems approach.
  • Architects must move away from being mere object creators and be involved in the design of broader systems for our future.
  • Systems thinking allows architects to recognize how the built world exists within social, environmental, and business networks, which are changing at a rate that traditional architecture must rush to support.

The Need for Regenerative Design:

  • The regenerative design process is fundamentally rooted in a system thinking approach.
  • Interventions may include biomimicry to imitate nature, air-cleansing building skins, water-purifying structures, or carbon-capturing architecture.
  • Shifting thoughts from sustainable to regenerative architecture will account for a better strategy to tackle the climate and biodiversity emergency that plagues society today.
  • The regenerative architecture will allow the construction industry to “do good” rather than merely “less bad”.

ArchDaily Topics: Circular Economy, Ankitha Gattupalli ‘22-‘23

GBE Related Jargon Buster Terms

CIRCULAR

CIRCULAR BUILDING 

CIRCULAR BUILDING ASSESSMENT (CBA)

The Circular Building Assessment is a methodology that compares and assesses product and material resource flows during the lifetime of a built asset and beyond.
This method is being developed into a prototype online platform/tool that can quantify and compare design approaches and highlight corresponding environmental and economic net benefits.
(BAMB H2020 ’19)

Circular Building Assessment
See: Circular Economy Wiki, Part of Designing Buildings:
(CIRCuIT ‘23)

CIRCULAR BUILDING ASSESSMENT PROTOTYPE
Circular building assessment prototype
See: Circular Economy Wiki, Part of Designing Buildings:
(CIRCuIT ‘23)

CIRCULAR BUSINESS MODELS

See: Circular Economy Wiki, Part of Designing Buildings:
Circular Business Models
(CIRCuIT ‘23)

CIRCULAR CONSTRUCTION
See: Circular Economy Wiki, Part of Designing Buildings:
Circular construction
(CIRCuIT ‘23)

CIRCULAR CONSTRUCTION IN REGENERATIVE CITIES CIRCUIT (CIRCuIT)

The Circular Economy wiki is supported by the Circular Construction in Regenerative Cities (CIRCuIT) project, which is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.
CIRCuIT is a collaborative project involving 31 ambitious partners across the entire built environment chain in Copenhagen, Hamburg, Helsinki Region and Greater London.
Through a series of demonstrations, case studies, events and dissemination activities, the project will showcase how circular construction practices can be scaled and replicated across Europe to enable sustainable building in cities and the transition to a circular economy on a wider scale.
(CIRCuIT ‘23)

CIRCULAR CONSTRUCTION IN REGENERATIVE CITIES (CIRCUIT)

See: Circular Economy Wiki, Part of Designing Buildings:
Circular Construction in Regenerative Cities (CIRCuIT)
(CIRCuIT ‘23)

CIRCULAR ECONOMY
See: Circular Economy Wiki, Part of Designing Buildings:
Circular economy
(CIRCuIT ‘23)

CIRCULAR ECONOMY – TRANSFORMING THE WORLDS NUMBER ONE CONSUMER OF RAW MATERIALS
See: Circular Economy Wiki, Part of Designing Buildings:
Circular economy – transforming the worlds number one consumer of raw materials
(CIRCuIT ‘23)

CIRCULAR ECONOMY ABOUT
See: Circular Economy Wiki, Part of Designing Buildings:
Circular economy about
(CIRCuIT ‘23) 

CIRCULAR ECONOMY AND DESIGN FOR CHANGE WITHIN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT: PREPARING THE TRANSITION
See: Circular Economy Wiki, Part of Designing Buildings:
Circular economy and design for change within the built environment: preparing the transition
(CIRCuIT ‘23)

CIRCULAR ECONOMY CASE STUDIES
Circular economy case studies
(CIRCuIT ‘23)

CIRCULAR ECONOMY FEATURES
See: Circular Economy Wiki, Part of Designing Buildings:
Circular economy features
(CIRCuIT ‘23)

CIRCULAR ECONOMY GLOSSARY
See: Circular Economy Wiki, Part of Designing Buildings:
Circular economy glossary
(CIRCuIT ‘23)

CIRCULAR ECONOMY IN BUILT ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH PROJECTS AND INITIATIVES
See: Circular Economy Wiki, Part of Designing Buildings:
Circular economy in built environment research projects and initiatives
(CIRCuIT ‘23)

CIRCULAR ECONOMY IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
See: Circular Economy Wiki, Part of Designing Buildings:
Circular economy in the built environment
(CIRCuIT ‘23

CIRCULAR ECONOMY IN URBAN PLANNING AND BUILDING PERMITS
See: Circular Economy Wiki, Part of Designing Buildings:
Circular economy in urban planning and building permits
(CIRCuIT ‘23)

CIRCULAR ECONOMY MODELS
See: Circular Economy Wiki, Part of Designing Buildings:
Circular economy models
(CIRCuIT ‘23)

CIRCULARITY

CIRCULAR PASSPORT:
The identity card of a product/material which characterizes, in particular, its composition, its period of use, its next uses, its carbon footprint and which allows its traceability. Passports that are not off-the-shelf products are referred to as “generic passports”.
(Upcyclea Lexicon ’23)

CIRCULAR PRODUCT:
Product certified Cradle to Cradle or whose circular performance noted by Upcyclea has the 5 pictograms. See criteria.
(Upcyclea Lexicon ’23)

CIRCULAR VALUE NETWORK
See: Circular Economy Wiki, Part of Designing Buildings:
Circular Value Network
(CIRCuIT ‘23)

REGENERATE:
Term used in rural and inparticular in urban areas usually socially deprived areas, or areas with non-decent homes and occupants suffering fuel poverty and many other forms of poverty or deprivation.
Rather then reuse the buildings, maintaining any social coherance; and rather than radically retrofitting to low energy, the areas are demolished wholesale and replaced with new buildings sometimes with regentrification driving out the existing residents dispersing them to all points of the compass and importing wealthier families, changing the character of the place.
Wholesale demolition without deconstruction and reclamation, will result in reusable resources being sent to landfill.
Whilst these materials should find their way into the circular economy that cannot be considered part of regenerative design since they need to come from demolition, which is not regenerative it is destructive and wasteful of a good reusable resource.
See Also: Circular Economy, IMD, Index of Multiple Deprivation, RDA, Regen Exhibition Liverpool, Regenerative, Regeneration, Regional Development Agencies, Regional Economic Strategy, Regional Spacial Strategy, Regional Strategy, RES, RS, RSS,
Sub-regional partnership, Sustainable land managmement
(GBE BRM ’24)

REGENERATION
Renewal of woodland through sowing, planting, or natural regeneration.
(UKWAS ’08)
The economic, social and environmental renewal and improvement of rural and urban areas.
(PlanningPortal ’03)
See Also: 200 Million Trees, Area Action Plan, Area based Initiative, BURA, CIRCuIT, Clusters, Design Plan, Economic Impact, Greenbelt, High Street, Leveling up, Renewable Resources, Shelterwood, Urban Regeneration, URC,
(GBE BRM ’24)

REGENERATION/ REVITALISATION
 

REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE
See Also Wikipaedia Regenerative Agriculture
See Also: Conservation Agriculture, Coppicing, Bioremediation, Group Selection, Silviculture, Sustainable Forest Management, SFI, Sustainable Forrest Management, Woodland
(GBE BRM ’24)

REGENERATIVE CITIES
See Also: CIRCuIT, Circular Construction in Regenerative Cities,
(GBE BRM ’24) 

REGENTRIFICATION:
Former one family residences may have been converted to multiple flats for multiple family residences, when wealthy owners purchase the whole building and return it to its former glory as a single home.
Areas are demolished wholesale and replaced with new buildings sometimes with regentrification driving out the existing residents dispersing them to all points of the compass and importing wealthier families, changing the character of the place.
See Also: Regenerate, One planet Life style.
(GBE BRM ’24) 

GBE Podcast

  • SALVO’s Reclamation Time (Formally Reclamation Hour)
  • GBE Reclamation Hour (Event) G#40562
  • 11th June 2024 16:00pm
  • From London’s Building Centre Retrofit 2024 Exhibition
  • Topic: Does Regenerative Architecture embrace reclaimed building materials?
  • Podcast: on Spreaker.
  • In answer to the question, would you agree that we felt it did not explicitly, but maybe some people’s interpretation of ‘regenerative’ might well include reclaimed.
  • We also agreed that ‘regenerative’ might just be a platitude, I think.
  • Just the latest must-have phrase in reports and discussions, in many cases without real understanding and over optimism about their adoption:
  • (not necessarily in the right order)
  • Eco, Environmental, Solar, Passive, Low Energy, Green, Recycled/Recyclable, Low Carbon, Sustainable, Circular Economy, Water saving, Low/Zero Carbon, Positive, Net Zero Carbon, Regenerative.
  • What’s the next hobby horse?

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