Esch 2022 project about circularity
The project Petite Maison was built as an ephemeral sculpture on Belval campus in front of the Maison du Savoir to introduce the public to the culture of alternative construction and circularity in the broad sense. Built with recycled materials, as well as with renewable and/or highly reusable materials, products and raw materials, the small prototype consisted of more than 500 construction elements.
The project was led by Prof. Carole Schmit together with Dragos Ghioca from the Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences and in cooperation with Prof. Christoph Odenbreit from the Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine and several partners from Luxembourg and the Greater Region.
Petite Maison was based on the research work done by engineers from the University of Luxembourg together with European partners in the frame of the Horizon 2020 project “Reuse and demountability using steel structures and the circular economy” (REDUCE). From 2016 to 2019, researchers tested new demountable composite floor systems and develop new methodologies, tools and guidance to assist in design for deconstruction. This led to new shear connection systems for demountable composite construction, based on push tests and beam tests to verify composite action and to develop design rules.
Thus, Petite Maison is a great showcase for the REDUCE project. The primary structure is composed by elements made from steel: columns,
beams and bracings that connected to each other in demountable manners using, when possible, the REDUCE connections. The steel structure is visible from the outside, the connections were meant to be easily observed and understood by the visitors. On top of the steel frames, the lighter wooden structure of the roof is fixed in the continuation of the vertical axis; foundations-steel frame-wooden frame”, explains Prof. Christophe Odenbreit, Head of the ArcelorMittal Chair of Steel Construction.
European Convention for Constructional Steelwork
Petite Maison has been selected by the European Convention for Constructional Steework in the frame of the ADVANCE project “Accompanying measure for Dissemination, Valorisation and Collaborative Exploitation of circularity of constructional steel products”.
Factsheet Petite Maison
