FABRIG

by Marija Petrovska

fabRIG is a response to the fast fashion industry, the petroleum industry, and notorious farming of conventional cotton. The project provides sustainable solutions to these decade-long problems, by introducing a textile recycling factory and an organic cotton greenhouse to the Thames Estuary, built on re-purposed oil rigs decommissioned from the North Sea, adjoined to movable housing units. At fabRIG, waste textiles produced by the fast fashion industry are up-cycled to resilient building materials, and are replaced with organic cotton fabric. Additionally, abandoned oil rigs are re-purposed for housing and sustainable industries, in contrast to the ecologically harmful purpose they have been designed to serve. The housing units are introduced as a way of promoting flexibility and sustainability of residential dwellings. The units are modular and built and purchased by the end-users to fit their customised needs. This would result in a residential building that can be more easily adapted to future users.