Villa Welpeloo
Enschede2012ArchitectenWhen 2012Architecten received the commission to design a villa in the Roombeek district in Enschede in 2005, the firm had for years already been designing and realizing smaller projects in which they applied reused materials. The architects conceived the term ‘superuse’ for this system of reuse and published a book on the subject in 2007. With superuse, new life is given to waste materials, or parts of them, in their original form. Thus it should not be confused with recycling, which stands for the entire process of reworking existing objects into new raw materials, something that requires a lot of new energy…