Don't Demolish Dublin: The Architecture of Ultimology
Oliver and Ellen provide an overview of a nascent research project which brings Oliver's studies into the carbon cost of building demolition to bear on Ellen's cultural explorations of Dublin's recent built heritage. For Dublin's unloved mid-late twentieth century architecture, issues of cultural and physical obsolescence arise, with the embodied carbon of a structure not fully measured in the planning decisions to demolish this generation of buildings. Adaptive reuse of office spaces, oversized churches and older-than-40-years social housing is rarely considered as the sustainability paradigm fuels the obsolescence paradigm. Issues of value and material loss are at the core of this project, with the dilemma of value which decides a building's ultimate fate: to demolish or retain.
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