Demolition Dialogues
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How can we reclaim what’s destined for demolition?
Demolition Dialogues explores how interior architecture can contribute to more circular construction practices by working with materials left behind: concrete rubble from demolition sites. Rather than seeing this debris as waste, I treated it as a narrator. Listening to its cracks, context, and history, I shaped a series of side tables that are both functional and narrative.
Each table tells a story. Made from site-specific reclaimed concrete, the objects reveal how demolition methods affect the material’s aesthetic and structural potential. They expose the violence of removal yet open up possibilities for care, reuse, and reimagining on a larger scale. The process embraced material experimentation and close engagement with construction sites and industry stakeholders. Uncovering new ways to make reclaimed concrete more desirable, applicable, and scalable in future projects.
The tables invite conversation. Not only metaphorically but quite literally. In the final stage of the project, dialogue became more than a method; it became a format. Talk by the Tables is a public event staged around these reclaimed concrete tables, where actors from across the construction industry are invited to sit together and reflect. Here, reuse and reclaim are not only technical strategies but cultural practices—collective matters of care, memory, and value. By turning informal, fragmented site conversations into a shared, designed experience, the event aims to open space for critical reflection and more deliberate collaboration toward a circular future.
