Public Loitering Area

Liverpool

Adaptive Actions

Embodied Carbon

kgCO₂e

kgCO₂e/m²

Barrels of Oil

Hectares of Forest

Cost

GBP

GBP/m₂

Public Loitering Area turns a fence into a public bench, with a piece of wood. Adaptive Actions is run by Jean-Francois Prost, and gives visibility to alternative ways of inhabiting spaces.

Approaches:

intervention

doing nothing

Notes:

Estimated figures

References/ further links:

Prost, J., (2008) "Adaptive Actions", field: 2(1), 139–150.

Jeremy Till and Tatjana Schneider "Spatial Agency: Collections of Alternative Approaches" [n.d.]. Spatialagency.net <https://www.spatialagency.net/database/collections.of.alternative.approaches> [accessed 13 March 2024]

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Embodied carbon is 'the emissions from the construction materials, the building process, [...] as well as from deconstructing and disposing of [the building] at the end of it’s lifetime' (UCL).

The figures featured on this website were calculated using Structure Workshop's Carbon Calculator v4 (unless otherwise stated).

Each case study includes carbon equivalents - the equivalent barrels of oil burnt and the equivalent hectares of US forest growth per annum to offset it. The figures these are based on are available here.

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In future the website aims to compare 'whole life carbon' - this is 'the carbon emissions resulting from the materials, construction and the use of a building over its entire life, including its demolition and disposal' (Greater London Authority, 2022).