Cooking Up a Circular Kitchen

Cooking Up a Circular Kitchen: A Longitudinal Study of Stakeholder Choices in the Development of a Circular Building Component

Jansen, B. (TU Delft Real Estate Management; Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS))
van Stijn, A. (TU Delft Real Estate Management)
Gruis, V.H. (TU Delft Real Estate Management)
van Bortel, G.A. (TU Delft Real Estate Management)

2022

The built environment can be made more circular by gradually replacing building components with more circular components during construction, renovation, or maintenance. However, many different design options can be seen as circular. Although there is a growing number of studies about circular design options, research on what makes these options feasible or not feasible in practice is limited. This type of research requires intensive, long-term involvement with practitioners. Therefore, this article presents a longitudinal case study of an exemplary circular building component: the circular kitchen. The researchers actively engaged in a co-creation with industry partners to develop a circular kitchen design, supply chain model, and business model. All the choices made from initiative to market implementation were documented. Five lessons were drawn from an analysis of the stakeholder choices that can aid the future development of feasible circular building components: about ambition, aesthetics, design scale, participation, and focus.

circular economy
circular design
building components
kitchen
circular kitchen
kitchen design
co-creation
case study

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:0d88bf41-245a-4ad9-9839-74d2c61037b3

https://doi.org/10.3390/su142315761

2071-1050

Sustainability, 14 (23)

Institutional Repository

journal article

© 2022 B. Jansen, A. van Stijn, V.H. Gruis, G.A. van Bortel