RhinoCircular: Development and Testing of a Circularity Indicator Tool for Application in Early Design Phases and Architectural Education

Oct 02, 2020

RhinoCircular is a CAD plugin developed within the Circular Construction Lab (CCL) at Cornell University that assesses a building design’s environmental impact in respect to its embodied carbon values and circularity: the degree to which design solutions minimize extraction and waste in favor of reusable, recyclable and renewable material resources.

Keywords: Circular Construction, Circular Economy, Circularity Indicator, Recycling, Reuse

Author:

Felix Heisel (Cornell University)

Cameron Nelson (Cornell University)

Presented at:

2020 AIA/ACSA Intersections Research Conference: CARBON

Published & professionally reviewed by:

The American Institute of Architects (AIA)

Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA)

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