“Literally everything must be redesigned giving priority to circularity.”
After studying architecture at ETH Zurich, Barbara Buser worked in Southern Sudan and Tanzania for over ten years. Back in Basel, together with Eric Honegger, she opened the architectural practice baubüro in situ, the urban think tank denkstatt and the office for circularity Zirkular with over 100 collaborators today.
Her focus lies on sustainable construction, reduction of waste and CO2 emissions. She initiated and led various important transformation projects, always starting from and evaluating the existing structures, buildings and social context.
At Lagerplatz in Winterthur she initiated the pilot project K.118 – a six storey building made up from 70% used construction elements, thus saving 60% of the CO2 as compared to a new construction. Buser and her team received several awards for ecological building and sustainability, as well as the Swiss Grand Prix Meret Oppenheim for her life’s work and the Holcim Global Gold award for sustainability for the K.118.
Buser is presenting the urgency of reuse in various conferences all over the world and was asked to join ETH as a visiting lecturer. Her latest civic action is the foundation of the volunteer association RE-WIN for the export of used, yet intact windows from Switzerland to Ukraine, as an answer to the Russian invasion.
WHAT DESIGN CAN DO MEXICO GNP 2024
Barbar Buser will take the main stage in the second block:
RECONNECTING WITH CIRCULARITY.
She will also participate in one of our breakout sessions, with more details coming soon.
Join Barbar Buser and hundreds of creatives on September 27th. Tickets are now available!