Tactic
Mitigation
Minimize Embodied Carbon
Design for deconstruction and material reuse
Options
…with fasteners (mechanical instead of adhesives, visible, few, or none).
…with simple components, modules, and fewer larger elements.
…with materials (high worth, low variety, no composites).
Case Study
Walking Wall is a 500-yard art piece by Andy Goldsworthy at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. It is composed of stones freshly quarried, dug from fields, and reclaimed from old prairie walls and dry stacked four feet high by skilled wallers. The modularity of the wall is on display as it “walks”—being disassembled on one end, moved piece by piece, and assembled on the other end. A single material and no binders allow the components to be reused over and over.
