Harvest-driven design

Jan Jongert is architect and co-founder of Superuse Studios. Since 2024 he has been a Visiting Professor at the Department of Architectural Engineering and Technology at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment. In this video, Jan discusses the concept of harvest-driven design.

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Main Takeaways

  • Harvest-driven design aims at obtaining most of a building’s components from available secondary and preferably local resources.

  • There are many different ways of obtaining supply of materials: wither from the building stock, secondary material suppliers, or the production industry.

Author

Jan Jongert
Jan Jongert
Visiting Professor

Jan Jongert (Amsterdam 1971) is architect and co-founder of Superuse Studios. With his collective he designs and realizes concrete projects that stimulate local exchange and production. This is an alternative to transporting raw materials, products and parts around the world, where a lot of value is unnecessarily lost. Jan works on tactics and tools to enable the transition to architecture for a responsible society. He was curator of the Dutch contribution to the 18th architecture Biennial in Venice in 2023 and currently visiting professor on circularity in the built environment at the Faculty of Architecture at TU Delft.

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