The waste of our lives is stored within our cities. Can we harness this, and use to it enhance our architectural landscape? “No Smoking on Platform 5’” is an exploration by Missy Render of “BioBricks” as a building material. Biochar is created through the burning of locally produced organic waste and has the ability to absorb harmful environmental pollutants. By creating these bricks in different areas across the country, the bricks will become localised, much like the bricks of our past.

This, combined with the celebration of Sheffield’s material heritage, is harnessed to create a building that is unique to our city. This idea can be implemented in other cities, and due to their own individual heritage and agricultural landscape, the whole building will change depending on its location. By building in this way we can create a circular life cycle of our waste materials, and use them to help clean up our cities.