Team: Arianna Meneghello, Gian Marco Bergonzini, Shreya Mudgal
Location: London, UK
Year: 2020
Status: Landscape Studio Project, Politecnico di Milano
Software Used: Autocad 2D, SketchUp 3D, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe In Design, Final Cut Pro
Re-Wa, stands for reusing waste, is an adaptive reuse project for a grade II warehouse located in 55 Great Suffolk Street, London to become a zero waste food hub. It is a project of visualizing an edible future where environmental consciousness in consuming a food becomes comodity.
Ground Floor - Entrance
From the entrance, visitors arrives to the ground floor of Re-Wa that is a welcome area. Visitors could find the information point, lounge lobby area, and patio to hang around the building.
First Floor - Market
The organic market serves fresh product from Re-Wa vertical aeroponic garden and also community garden located in the rooftop. The market also has the organic waste chute for the visitor to throw their organic waste to recycle it.
Second Floor - Food Lab
Sharing kitchen and casual dining room for visitor to reserved the kitchen to cook together. The cooking class offers program to learn how to cook eco-friendly and to reduce food waste in the process of food consuming. It is also a class for visitor to use healthy and organic ingredients but delicious outcome. That way, visitors could practice zero food waste lifestyle at home too.
Third Floor - Dining Room
The dining experience merge with open kitchen to see how we are processing the ingredients, also the vertical farm to know where the ingredients comes. We use our own ingredients to eliminate delivery carbon foot prints, we minimize the choose of menu, and we tried to process the ingredients from roots to top to reduce waste.
Fourth Floor - Co Living
Co-living apartment acommodate a temporary place to live for the workers inside the building in a sharing way of living reducing waste and energy consume. With the co-living space, chef, farmer, and other Re-Wa workers could have a decent place to rest and socialize with their colleague.
Fifth Floor - Community Garden
Roof top garden act as community garden and outdoor place to eat or having an outdoor event. It is accessible also for public to just enjoy a walk in our garden. Community garden is a place where Re- Wa visitors could grow their own herbs and vegetables. It is grown using our fertilizer processed from our food waste. The produces own by visitors could also be given to our kitchen to be process.
Signage and Wayfinding
As a part of project, I took an individual focus on designing sites signage and wayfinding. Signage may appear insignificant in our activities. We are absorbing the information without realizing or processing the object’s existence. However that is exactly how people should interact with signs, people see it but it’s not disturbing the continuity of space experience
Variation of signage proportion consist of Identification sign, Informational Sign, Directional Sign, and Regulatory Sign.
Re-Wa Directional signs in Urban Context consist of information about Re - Wa location in form of trash bin as an urban furniture. It is connected to Re - Wa main concept in waste management. Located in strategic busy pedestrian in 200 meters radius from the building, we put each trash bin with a message to get people awareness of reducing waste while giving direction of Re - Wa location.
Identification sign inside and on the facade of the building helps in identifying a company, department or a function in a space. The design purpose is to emphasize our logo as our identity and give information to provide visitors all the information needed to enjoy the space.
Regulatory signs inside the building let people know whether they can enter the room and if they are allowed to smoke or not. Regulatory sign are useful for creating a safe environment. Designed simply and clearly to ensure that there is no confusion over what the rules are and that people aren’t put in a dangerous situation simply as a result of lack of knowledge.
