Alternative materials including waste products are key to creating circular practices in architecture, Duncan Baker-Brown and Studio Bark architect Misbah Mahmood Asim have told an AJ100 lunch

Speaking at The Lighterman in London’s King’s Cross last Thursday (20 March), the University of Brighton academic and alumnus Misbah Mahmood Asim – one of two Studio Bark architects to have studied at Brighton’s School of Architecture – shared their experiences of testing and applying circular economy principles inside and outside the classroom.

Baker-Brown explained how the Brighton Waste House, a teaching facility constructed of 85 per cent waste materials, which is now over a decade old, was the result of the architecture school’s emphasis on material reuse and relationships with manufacturers.

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