The ‘Growing Building’ is a proposal for a fabric recycling centre, a research laboratory for textile-based building materials and a store for pre-owned fashion that adopts low-carbon and circular strategies of construction. Year 2 architecture student Ivan Mills-Lamptey developed and prototyped a bespoke ‘fabric-brick’ from shredded jeans, which forms a soft lining for internal spaces, while the external gabion-walls upcycle construction waste from planned demolitions nearby. Project site located at Blackhorse Lane in Waltham Forest working with Unit A's 2023-24 theme of Productive City by exploring alternative approaches to spatial production and city-making through strategies promoting a local circular economy.
