The Spolia Auction House Part 1 Project 2024 Necati Akyol University for the Creative Arts | UK Building owners are required under Italian abandonment regulations to begin destruction or restoration, if a building is unoccupied for more than 12 months. By embracing Milan’s past to shape its future, The Spolia Auction House’ investigates and encourages the reuse and resale of recently removed building elements from existing buildings to develop low-carbon, low-cost new buildings. The project combined, strapped, assembled, stored, and revealed its components in a tectonic fashion using four local structures that had been abandoned for many years, even decades. The building’s gathered histories are punctuated and building parts are recorded using easily recognisable colour coding. The remaining palette is composed of recycled polycarbonate and zinc sheets for its external fabric, locally produced softwood, and internally recycled materials recovered from the site. Tutor(s) Alex Smith