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In the contemporary context, concepts such as component hunting, urban mining, and bio-sourced materials do not merely de­note technical strategies. Rather, they articulate ways of reconfiguring the relationship between architecture, materiality, and productive processes.

Their significance lies not in the novelty of the terminology, but in their capacity to erode inherited models of modern design, shifting the architectural focus towards an active engagement with resources, their cycles, and material tra­jectories.

In this third issue of the Frugality series -a critical response to the demands of the environmental agenda- component hunting, urban mining, and biosourced materials- challenge the notion of architecture as a finite object, advancing instead a material ethic in which design becomes an act of negotiation, translation, and ecological and economic commitment.

CONTENTS (English/Spanish)

Frugality.
Javier Mozas.

Build of Site, Better than Off-Site.
Søren Pihlmann, Pihlmann Architects.
Build of Site. During the 19^th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia Venice (Italy) 2024-

Auto-Spolia.
Pihlmann Architects.
Thoravej 29 .Copenhagen (Denmark) 2025.

Get the Dust out of the Brain.
Pihlmann Architects.
Kunsthal 44møen. Askeby, Møn (Denmark) 2024.

Modular Timber Redensification.
Aretz Dürr Architektur.
Wohnen F // 9. Cologne (Germany) 2024-2025.

Assemblage as ‘Symbolic Capital’.
Holzhausen Zweifel Architekten.
Zurich Bus Station. Zurich (Switzerland) 2021-2024.

Building from What is Available.
Baubüro in Situ.
Temporary Cantonal School. Uster, Zurich (Switzerland) 2024.

The Straw Bale as a Modular Construction Unit.
Localarchitecture.
Sports Facility. Daillens (Switzerland) 2021-2024.

Building the Symbiocene.
Djernes & Bell.
Hedeskov Centre For Regenerative Practice. Rønde (Denmark) 2024-2025.

Essential Poetry.
Harquitectes.
Housing in Palma de Mallorca. Mallorca (Spain) 2021-2024.

From Productive Space to Protective Space.
Harquitectes.
Rehabilitation of Vapor Cortès. Prodis 1923. Terrassa, Barcelona (Spain) 2020-2024.