Best of #plastics

In this week Best of  ten projects with plastic, once a symbol of “modernity”, today a material to be recycled and transformed, in a fabric for example.

Best of #plastica
A couple of years ago at the Gestaltung Museum Zurich, the “Plastic Garbage Project” showed the birth of a new continent: an artificial island floating in the ocean, several hundred kilometres wide, made solely of plastic.
After the great success in the Fifties, when it became the symbol of “modernity”, today designers, artists and architects are developing a more conscious approach, looking for recycling solutions. We propose ten projects published on Domus Web (including a villa, made entirely of plastic, built in the late Sixties).


Bagnet: by Arturo Revilla and Monica Dominguez, is a cultural project to explore the relation between the life cycle of waste material and the constitution of the contemporary city.

The Straw‐k: Alexandra Singer-Bieder & Sofia Bennani received the Young Talent Prize for the Africa Design Award 2014 with the project Straw‐k, made of plastic tubes melted together on the surface.

Labyrinth of plastic waste: Luzinterruptus presented at the Katowice Street Art Festival Labyrinth of plastic waste, 26 meters of transitable plastic waste to demonstrate the amount of plastic daily consumed.

House with Big Window: Alessandro Armando – Manfredo di Robilant Architects transformed a preexisting residential building in Cambridge Massachusetts into a contemporary house with a plastic envelope that reflects or absorbs the skylight.

Ionna Vautrin, Mezzo: French designer Ionna Vautrin creates for Lexon Mezzo, a collection of small plastic objects composed by a torch, a radio, a clock and the Reed pen.

FaddaSantos, lunch on-the-go: the design studio launched a 100% recycled polypropylene cutlery and salad set for lifestyle brand Alladin.

Villa Spies, Torö, Sweden, 1969: made entirely of plastic, this fully circular villa was designed by Swedish architect Staffan Berglund for the Danish airline magnate Simon Spies; for years ignored by architecture critics, it has recently been revisited in a monograph.

Janinge: in a close link between industry and culture, Form Us With Love and Ikea are collaborating to create a new collection of chairs and stools using neat yet durable frames.

Revive 1+2: Kvadrat presented at Orgatec Revive 1+2, two vibrant upholstery textiles designed by Georgina Wright and made from post-consumer recycled polyester (PET).

The Hedonist: Nuno Pimenta’s project The Hedonist is a transformative room: it adapts itself to the user, his interpretation of happiness or simply to a transitory state of mind.
 

Top: Luzinterruptus, Laberinto de residuos plásticos, Katowice, Polonia. Photo © Gustavo Sanabria

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