Actions for Recycling

Abandoned construction sites are found in all cities. The French architectural team Coloco, founded in 1999, scouts and maps “skeletal” structures.

A proposal made to the city of Seville for legislation to assist in the temporary transformation of public and private solares – vacant lots walled off for security – into public spaces for at leas

A proposal for a group of landowners and the Office for Unsolicited Architecture (OUA) to design projects on microsites such as lawns and alleys between houses, with payment as carbon credits.

There are umbrellas in every city. As one umbrella is a cheap, portable shelter for a single person, many can become shelter for a group of people.

Most cities have scheduled days each month when oversized garbage, like furniture, is picked up in each neighbourhood.

A research project and workshop on the reuse of residual urban spaces in central São Paulo, Lixurbana documented favourite street soccer sites, DIY playgrounds, and hangout spots that had been “con

Unable to construct a balcony for his apartment legally, Santiago Cirugeda vandalized the building with spray paint, then requested a construction permit for scaffolding to allow him to remove the

The Old Town of Seville has many restrictions on construction and renovation in order to maintain its historic character.

A worker-owned cooperative that sorts and repairs scrap dumped in the South Bronx from construction and demolition sites all over New York City.

A proposal for the reprogramming of parking garages: the garages are modified by Office of Unsolicited Architecture (OUA) trucks to shelter homeless people at night.

A series of related spatial “moorings” and “insertions” composed of mobile pool, foosball, and picnic tables designed to offer residents opportunities for easy interaction with trivialized urban sp