Brussels-based architecture duo Brasebin-Terrisse have erected a bus shelter made using waste materials as part of this year's Tallinn Architecture Biennale.
Titled No Time to Waste, the pavilion at the Balti Jaam transit hub was mostly made from offcuts sourced from suppliers around Tallinn and includes discarded concrete paving slabs from a construction site, chunks of stone from a local manufacturer and pieces of brick from a waste-management company.
The pavilion's design was led by what materials could be locally sourced Brasebin-Terrisse, which is made up of Matthieu Brasebin and Elisabeth Terrisse de Botton, conceived the project as a reversal of the conventional architecture process ? one where the design is determined by the materials available, rather than the other way around.
As a result of being dependent on what waste materials could be sourced locally, the architects were not able to confirm how the finished shelter would look during the initial design phases.
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