Recovered materials for participatory urban design processes: The case of Struga City

This research aims to show methods of urban design that utilize recovered materials as transformative resources for design. Different materials are available on earth in different states and different usages of said materials can change depending on how architects and designers view them. Different perceptions of findings also give us different urban situations that may be able to change the urban fabric. This process, tested several times in different communities, has resulted positively in the participation of residents as well as in the subsequent maintenance of the transformed space. The projects and experiments conducted below are born from the possibility of recovering materials and reusing them in a new life cycle to ignite urban transformations. Through this process not only do we delay the materials from going into a wasteland but we can also extend their life and their impact on the built environment. Through the process of participatory design, waste materials are recovered and reused as resources for urban interventions.