No Building As Usual!

Climate change is the biggest challenge facing the building industry and the biggest challenge facing the next generation of architects. It’s clear that if we want to halt global heating we have to STOP building as usual.

The film ’No Building As Usual' traces the construction of Nest House, a home for two elderly people in the British countryside that was designed collaboratively and completely made of sustainable materials using U-Builds modular method. The architecture and construction industry also needs to address it’s diversity issues and so Nest House was built by a group of 12 young people from underrepresented backgrounds with little or no construction experience, led by Studio Bark.

To mirror the process of constructing the house, the film crew who made 'No Building As Usual' are a group of young people also from underrepresented backgrounds, with guidance from Jim Stephenson and Nyima Murry. The full team were Hana Alsaai, Lela Sujani, Nabiha Qadir, Nada Maktari, Teshome Douglas-Campbell, Krish Nathaniel and Ella Mahalia Adu.