ARCH 505 Sustainable and Affordable Architecture Project
Looped Living Quarters
Detroit, MI



* This is a group work project



The project is located at 235 S McKinstry St, Detroit, MI. It is a competition project aimed at reducing waste during construction and operations. We proposed an adaptive reuse to turn this old factory warehouse into a mixed-use residential and commercial building. This project is also designed to be a high-performance building. By reusing onsite building components and recycling materials from demolished local buildings, we aim to keep the proposed project’s carbon emissions during construction and operation as low as possible.







Climate Data













Site Plan


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Sections


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Street View
Wall Performance Calculation

Ceiling Layers
Exterior Wall Layers


Construction Details







LCA calculation


calculation as building a brand new building

LCA_10_m2         854


Initial_CO2_Project_m2         339


Export emissions construction (absolute values)

Foundation     423958

Construction   27502

Envelope       1852578

Window         43870


CO2_sum_Ext_Wall 125907

CO2_spec_m2_Ext_Wall 18

CO2_sum_Ext_Roof 1717415

CO2_sum_Window  43870

CO2_sum_Construction 45596

CO2_sum_Foundation 423958





calculation as building with recycled parts

LCA_10_m2         265 (about  69% reduction)


Initial_CO2_Project_m2         118 ~ 98.31  (about 65 ~ 71% reduction)


Foundation     169583 (about 60% reduction)

Construction   12376 (about 55% reduction)

Envelope       611350.74 (about 67% reduction)

Window        9212.7 (about 79% reduction)


CO2_sum_Ext_Wall 40290.24 (about 68% reduction)

CO2_spec_m2_Ext_Wall 5.76 (about 68% reduction)

CO2_sum_Ext_Roof 704140.15 (about 59% reduction)

CO2_sum_Window  9212.7 (about 79% reduction)

CO2_sum_Construction 20518.2 (about 55% reduction)

CO2_sum_Foundation 169583.2 (about 60% reduction)