This was an assignment given to us Multiconsult’s 8 student summer interns by FutureBuilt and Stavanger Municipality. We had to weeks to explore the possibility of Stavanger’s existing hospital becoming a FutureBuilt Circular Neighborhood when the hospital activity has moved out by 2040.

We used FutureBuilts own tools to estimate scores on different aspects of the FutureBuilt requirements. The Circular Neighborhood should preserve 50% of usable floor space, have 100% land mass balance and reuse 50% mass of whatever building material is taken down. As our estimate is for a project that potentially would be realized by 2040, we used higher percentages as our goal. Our results told us that no land mass would have to be removed. If anything we would relieve other projects of their land mass to fill in the area. We preserved a high percentage of the areas buildings, to make sure that we could reuse enough of what was taken down. The building’s circularity was then determined by FutureBuilts index and estimated to just score above the requirement to be Circular Buildings.

The project was a great experience of working together across fields of expertise. The team consisted of me as an architect, a building engineer, a geologist, a risk analyst and several other fields.