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Award-winning architecture is not generally known for repurposing materials. But Pippin Wright-Stow – who designed the home that won best ‘compact house’ at the Architectural Designers’ 2017 Design Awards – sees his two years of scavenging post-quake Christchurch for anything he could reuse in his building project as “embedded into the core of the concept”.

While finding new uses for this salvage wasn’t the only reason he designed the house in the way