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8 Projects 2 Journals 1 Publications 3 Competitions

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Plastic waste presents designers and architects with both a material challenge and an opportunity for systemic intervention. This topic explores how built environment professionals address plastic consumption and disposal through creative reuse, structural innovation, and community-centered solutions.

The community examines upcycled structures and pavilions, mechanical properties of recycled materials, urban waste reduction strategies, and public installations that highlight plastic consumption. Projects range from low-cost 3D printing with recycled filaments to large-scale interventions that engage communities in rethinking synthetic materials.

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Christopher Perera1 work

City School of Architecture, Colombo1 work

Hosted by UNI

Graveyard

Challenge to visualize future spaces of waste

Prize Pool:USD 7,000

Regular registration ends: 9 days left

Submission ends: November 1, 2026

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Murtuza

Architecture as a catalyst for urban waste reduction

Urban waste, one of the most critical challenges in cities, is collected in heaves which become a key factor in urban pollution. The aim of this thesis is to unite the infrastructure for waste reduction management with conscious architecture and landscape design. It creates awareness amongst the people rejuvenates these urban wastelands as public spaces.

Kaan and 3 others

Plug'n Play

This project is driven by the main purpouse of creating a free/creative/unique playground experience to the children from all ages.

Münir and Habibe

Challenge Ground

Children Playground is a creative area that let children play

Shi and Wanting

hashtag#trash#ShanghaiCarnival

In this future of Industry4.0, we experimentally explore how Shanghai can respond to our needs for the awareness of trash sorting and recycling, which is a recent local policy that is contextualized by the global trend of eco-cities. We create a complex infrastructure that incorporates the function of trash facility and the culture of a local amusement park.

Neha

SWAYAM - THE WASTESCAPE COMMUNITY

Swayam is a community wastescape module to foster waste management with architecture, bridging the gap between waste, technology, entrepreneurs, and people through community engagement. the demonstration model through an architecture.

SEYDA

PITREN PLASTICS

ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION IS VERY HIGH IN THE CITY OF DURBAN IN SOUTH AFRICA.SINCE IT IS A CITY WITH A COASTLINE,THERE IS A LARGEMOUNT OF PLASTIC WASTE ON THE BEACH.WITH THIS PROJECT,OUR VOLUNTEERS COLLECT PLASTICS THROUGH VAIOUS ACTIVITIES(YOUNG PEOPLE COLLECT PLASTICS AT HOME BY DISTRUBUTING BAGS TO THE SURROUNDING HOUSES WITH THEIR BICYCLES .

Mario

Analysis of samples’ mechanical properties made with a low cost 3D printer, using filaments of virgin and recycled PLA

The experiment analyzes samples’mechanical properties, made with a low-cost 3D printers using commercially PLA’s filaments, recycled twice.We discovered that recyclying PLA doesn’t alters its mechanical proprieties. We want to reduce the environmental impact of plastic waste, improving 3d printing and recycle processes. It will reduce planet's pollution.

Imtiyaz