Super green: an architect’s redesign of concrete façade panels using waste materials

In this research the vertical space is being tested due to it being the most underutilized and available space within current city designs (Gehl, 2010). It is also the orientation that proposes the most difficult challenges; if we can conquer the vertical the horizontal will work.<br><br>This research developed a critique, methodology and experimental process that examined what an architect brings to the material development process.

This line of questioning is framed within the context of developing a concrete façade panel from industrial waste that is bioreceptive, meaning it can sustain plant growth on its surface.<br><br>The research is a multi-disciplinary PhD that takes a whole view of the material development process from inception of idea to fully formed material and examines what an architect brings at each stage whilst simultaneously developing a non-structural bio-receptive concrete.