ABC Architecture Workshop
ABC Architecture Workshop
For Haarlem’s architecture center, Refunc explored the architectural potential of municipal waste containers directly at the landfill source. Rather than imposing predetermined functions, the intervention listened to what the containers already contain as spatial building blocks: their modular standardization enables immediate assembly into walls, enclosures, and temporary structures. The container’s inherent stability and weather resistance – engineered for decades of outdoor exposure – eliminates need for additional cladding or protection. Wheel mechanisms allow mobile reconfiguration of spatial boundaries. Washing machine windows integrated into stacked containers create apertures for surveillance and light, their circular geometry reading as anthropomorphic facades at urban scale. Noteworthy was the birth of the SOUND BIN – found speakers built into waste containers, transforming municipal infrastructure into mobile sound systems. Working directly at the landfill collapsed distance between material source and architectural experimentation.
