Antonia Myleus
Master's Level (Year 2)
Master's Level (Year 2)
Thesis Project
In Sweden, the average person buys 12 kg textiles/person/year and throw away 8kg. Only 0.02% of textiles are being re-used in Sweden. A shift in how we produce, build and consumed are called for. Searching for an architecture of alternatives, an architecture of degrowth.
I propose factory in Årstafältet, Stockholm, where the raw material comes from public donation of textiles rather than extraction of natural resources, celebrating ‘trash’ as a resource. Various actors in the textile production chain are in proximity or work with each other, where functions of recycling, repairing, reusing, public, private, production and consumption are all interwoven both externally and internally in order to create a circular textile production line and economy.
Problems with the Textile Industry Today
Textile Process
Breaking up the Process
Circular Textile Processing Diagram
Textile Scrap Donation
Textile Scrap Donation
Repair & Upgrade
Clothes Library
Entrance 1
Repair & Upgrade Alley
Cutting Room
Sewing Room
Repair
Gutter Detail
Dyeing Courtyard
6 public walks through buildings & Site
Plan - Textile Recycling Factory Building
Linen & Yarn Processing Factory
Recycled Bricks, Window & Door Frames
Market Space
Dyeing COurtyard Axonometric
Textile Transformation Axonometric
Landscape Elevation - Årstafältet
