WREN/Environmental Education Center
From Eugene Neighbors
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[edit] Environmental Education Center for the West Eugene Wetlands
WREN is anchoring the community project to construct a state-of-the-art environmental education center and citizen science laboratory in the West Eugene Wetlands. The education center will be located at the current Red house site on Danebo, just north of West 11th Avenue and Amazon Creek.
The project continues to make steady progress. The site and buildings have been master-planned in considerable detail through an extensive community involvement process, and the City of Eugene has approved a conditional use permit for the project. Initial funding sufficient for the site construction and restoration phase of the project was approved by the voters of Eugene as part of the 2006 parks bond measure.
We're approaching the building construction phases of the project with a hybrid stone soup approach, and we're collecting some resources on this page that help illustrate and understand various aspects of this approach.
[edit] Environmental Education Center Project
[edit] Stone Soup Project Approach
Great benefits of the stone soup and stone soup hybrid approaches include building community through the process of making a building, potentially significant cost savings, and minimizing the environmental footprint of a project by maximizing reuse of construction materials.
The Urban Ecology Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin was built using a very effective and inspiring hybrid conventional and stone soup construction approach. Some of the story of this project is told in ArchitectureWeek No. 359, Milwaukee's Urban Ecology Center.
The BRING Recycling Center has produced a video on reuse and recycling of construction materials.
Many books discuss the recycling and reuse of construction materials:
- Recycling Construction & Demolition Waste: A LEED-Based Toolkit, by Greg Winkler. McGraw-Hill, 2010. ISBN 0071713387 (https://www.archiplanet.org/niki/Recycling_Construction_%26_Demolition_Waste_%28Book%29 niki])
[edit] References
- List of environmental education centers at Archiplanet
- Recycling Construction Debris, by Adam Davis, ArchitectureWeek No. 139, 2003.0326, pE2-1.
