Deposit Bottle City - Nomad City, Sort of...

Ok so the name is not catchy.
Here are some thoughts to try and paint a big picture.

I remember my parents returning glass Coke bottles to the grocery store. Cheap aluminum and plastic containers seems to have done away with that practice. It would be interesting to think of a future in which buildings had a similar lifecycle to those glass bottles. The components of buildings could be manufactured so that they were reused several times. To help cope with climate change, population growth and other global changes future citys may be diassembled moved and reused. Imagine the immense amount of energy that would be saved if 80% of the fallen building matter in Port-au-Prince were reused to create a new city. Imagine if the city's buildings were composed of parts that weighted so little that they could be lifted by individuals. What if the same parts were able to be assembled without tools?

This fundamental change in a city's relationship to materials would change the way designers work. They will be concerned with either detailing reusable components or rearranging used materials. Instead of a paradigm of creating from scratch or even recycling material for re-manufacture, whole building components will be processed, cleaned and then rearranged. The buildings will be constructed with more "dry" processes to allow for easy disassembly. The constant rearrangement of a slow flow of components could replace the trauma of new construction. This type of shared building commodity could also blur the sense of ownership and egocentric identity characteristic of most architecture.