Jake Hansen

This week I decided to try and reduce my waste by creating an art project for an architecture class using only reused materials. I'm an architecture major, and in my program we do lots of hands on art projects and model making. This does however require us to purchase a lot of material such as wood, cardboard, and chipboard. People don't usually use all the of materials that they buy, so we have a reuse room where we can drop off scraps from our projects for other people to repurpose. However, most of these materials are cut into odd shapes and sizes, and don't always meet to requirements of what we're looking for. So they usually end up getting thrown away or recycled in the end anyway. It kind of disappoints me how much waste we create in the architecture program. At the end of the term or after a big project, the trash bins and the reuse room are overflowing, and I am unsure about how much of the material actually get properly recycled.

I had a project that I was working on this week, and I wanted to challenge my self to use nothing other than the scraps that I found in the reuse room. Sometimes, working with scrap materials can be challenging because not every piece will suite your needs perfectly. But thats part of the fun, seeing the potential in every piece. It was really fun working with just reused materials this week, and I plan to try and use as much recycled material as possible going forward. I won't bore you all the with details of the assignment, so heres a picture, and you can interpret it however you like.