Pareid creates organ-like installation from corrugated plastic tubes in Madrid

Design studio Pareid filled a lecture theatre at the College of Architects of Madrid with a reversible installation made from PVC pipes, which were later donated for use as construction materials.

Called Everywhere and Nowhere, the installation took over COAM's Sálon de Actos as part of the fourth edition of the Urvanity Art Fair.

Everywhere and Nowhere is made from a wiggly web of corrugated tubes

To decorate the lecture hall, London-based studio Pareid installed red neon lighting and sourced the same corrugated PVC tubes that are often used in construction to protect wires or form drainage pipes.

These were draped around the room and its three large columns in a bid to draw attention to the hidden network of wires, cables and pipes, which is constantly transferring physical matter and digital data across the globe.

Pareid designed the work for an art fair in Madrid

"The language of excess, fluidity, connectivity and transmission are rendered in this space through the use of three materials: tubes, lights and metal," Pareid founders Déborah López and Hadin Charbel told Dezeen.

"Lining the walls, ceiling and parts of the floor, visitors are immersed in the machine-like organs and red glow – all of which are familiar and at the same time alien."

A seating area was included in the space

Instead of permanent adhesive, Pareid used clamps and straps to suspend the tubes in various arrangments around the room.

"The [Urvanity Art Fair] lasted for three days, meaning the installation had to be able to be mounted quickly and ephemerally," explained López and Charbel. "As it occupied the room of an existing building, it also had to leave no trace behind."

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During the festival, a small bar and a central seating area were placed in the room to host a range of public talks, conferences and social gatherings.

Afterwards, Pareid donated the corrugated tubes to a small construction company in a nearby town, which has since used them to protect the electrical wires in one of its recent buildings.

Events and social gatherings took place within the installation

"The project aims to tackle issues surrounding temporary installations and the construction industry's waste as well as people's appreciation for certain aspects of the built environment," said López and Charbel.

"These tubes are things everyone needs and values but at the same time, they are visually unappreciated and thus hidden underground," the designers added.

"They are indeed the aesthetic rejects of what most people experience as architecture. By foregrounding them as the elements that allow our contemporary urban and rural lives to seamlessly operate, visitors are met with an element they usually do not care to see."

Everywhere and Nowhere was installed to encourage discussion around art and waste

Pareid is known for its multidisciplinary approach to architecture and design. The studio has previously made a textile from human hair to measure urban pollution and built a brightly coloured classroom in Thailand around two funnels for harvesting rainwater.

The photographs are courtesy of Pareid.

_TheUrvanity Art Fair was on show at the College of Architects of Madrid from 24 to 27 February 2022. _SeeDezeen Events Guide for an up-to-date list of architecture and design events taking place around the world.

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Atelier Craft and ICI! complete triangular migrant shelter in Paris

French studios Atelier Craft and ICI! have designed a triangular day shelter for migrants and refugees in Paris, with a modular timber frame that allows it to be demounted and moved to different sites.

Called Aire de Repos or Rest Area, the shelter is currently located at La Station Gare des Mines, an arts venue in Porte d'Aubervilliers established by Collectif MU that sits close to the site of a migrant camp dismantled by French authorities in 2020.

Aire de Repos is a triangular day shelter for migrants and refugees in Paris

Supported by a social innovation grant from the Région île de France, Paris-based studios Atelier Craft and ICI! worked with the Coucou Crew, an association supporting young migrants, to design the new flexible activity space.

"The Aire de Repos offers an unconditional welcome for young migrants to come and discuss, benefit from psychological support sessions, have a coffee and initiate or participate in cultural activities," explained a statement from La Station Gare des Mines.

It has a modular timber frame

The simple, modular design of Aire de Repos allowed its construction to be a participative process involving the Coucou Crew, which was documented in a short film.

The nature of the frame also allows the size of the final structure to easily be expanded or reduced, with the intention of it being able to transform to suit a range of different sites or be replicated elsewhere in future.

Externally it is covered with corrugated polycarbonate

"The short timeframe set to build the project in a participative manner led us to imagine a simple shape and prefabricated frame in order to assemble the main structure in less than two weeks," explained Atelier Craft.

"In that sense, the triangular form stems from structural and economic principles but also from a symbolic standpoint – based on this single frame the structure can span out depending on the future needs of its users," it continued.

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A small, skylit porch space forms an entrance to the shelter, with the main room left free of any fixings or fittings to be as flexible as possible.

Internally, the high, pitched ceiling of the structure is clad with plywood panels. Externally, it is covered in sheets of corrugated polycarbonate and transparent plastic sheets that are tied to metal poles on the wooden frame.

Plywood panels line the interior

The walls have been infilled with straw insulation. At one end of the structure a rammed earth trombe wall faces the sun, absorbing its heat and slowly releasing it back into the shelter throughout the day.

"The construction as a whole is designed based on bioclimatic principles to regulate the inside temperature in a passive manner," explained the practice.

A skylit porch sits at the structure's entrance

Other examples of structures designed for refugees include a latticed wooden community centre at a camp in Mannheim, Germany, designed by students from the University of Kaiserslautern.

The photography is by Victoria Tanto.

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Demountable stadium built with shipping containers reaches completion in Qatar

Colourful shipping containers and a modular steel structure make up Stadium 974, which Fenwick Iribarren Architects has completed in Qatar ahead of the FIFA 2022 World Cup.

Formerly known as Ras Abu Aboud, the 40,000-seat sports venue near Doha's port is the first stadium designed to be fully demountable in FIFA World Cup history.

Fenwick Iribarren Architects has completed Stadium 974 in Doha

Stadium 974 was designed by Spanish studio Fenwick Iribarren Architects with structural engineers Schlaich Bergermann Partner and engineering consultancy Hilson Moran.

Its modular structure combines repurposed shipping containers and a steel structure, parts of which are recycled.

It is constructed partly from shipping containers

The aim is for the stadium to be dismantled and reassembled in a new location after the football tournament in 2022, or repurposed as a series of smaller venues.

Its modular design also reduced constructions costs, build time and material waste, and organisers said water efficiency methods ensure it will reduce water use by 40 per cent compared to a conventional stadium development.

The containers used are brightly coloured

Stadium 974 is named after the number of shipping containers used for its construction. The number 974 is also the country's international dialling code.

The shipping containers, many of which were used to transport construction materials to the venue, serve as a nod to Qatar's maritime history and the industrial heritage of the site.

It accommodates 40,000 spectators

While forming portions of the stadium's exterior, some of these steel containers contain staircases, concession stands and bathrooms.

According to the Supreme Committee for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 (SC), Stadium 974 has been designed by Fenwick Iribarren Architects to achieve the five-star certification in the Global Sustainability Assessment System (GSAS) for both its construction and design.

The stadium is designed to be naturally ventilated

GSAS rates green building and infrastructure across the Middle East and North Africa. Certification is available for the design, construction and operations of a structure, with six stars being the highest achievable rating.

The shape of the stadium and gaps between the seats facilitate natural ventilation, meaning artificial cooling is not required. This is helped by the stadium's proximity to the sea.

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The SC hopes also hopes the project will serve as "an innovative blueprint" for more sustainable stadium designs for future largescale events.

"The striking Stadium 974 is a proud symbol of sustainability and innovation," said SC chairman and engineer Yasir Al Jamal.

"We consider this innovative venue a game-changer for future mega-event hosts," added the SC's secretary-general ​​Hassan Al Thawadi.

Shipping containers are used as concession stands inside

The stadium will host its first match on 30 November. Other recently completed stadiums for the tournament include the Al Thumama Stadium by Ibrahim M Jaidah and the Education City Stadium that Fenwick Iribarren Architects also designed.

Stadium 974 is the only stadium positioned close to the sea and will also be the first stadium that football fans will see upon arriving in Qatar for the tournament, due to its proximity to Hamad International Airport.

A total of 974 shipping containers have been used

Elsewhere, recent architecture projects that have made use of repurposed shipping containers include a housing complex for the homeless in LA and a black holiday house in New York.

Other reversible buildings featured on Dezeen include Triodos Bank, a timber-framed office nestled in Dutch woodland, and the egg-shaped Tij Observatory in the Netherlands.

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Lanza Atelier fills Re-Source exhibition with demountable furniture for visitors to take home

Architecture studio Lanza Atelier has lined an art exhibition in New York with plywood tables and stools in varying sizes, which can be disassembled, flat-packed and distributed among visitors at the end of the show.

The design for the Re-Source exhibition encompasses 56 pieces of furniture that are lined up to fill the triangular floorplan of the Storefront for Art and Architecture gallery in SoHo.

Lanza Atelier filled the Re-Source exhibition with dismountable tables and stools

These are used to display 26 works from emerging architects and designers, composed entirely from leftover materials found in Storefront's storage spaces.

Lanza Atelier was tasked with creating an environment to showcase these pieces and similarly reflect the importance of reusing and repurposing materials.

The furniture pieces are given away when a visitor purchases an artwork

With this aim, the studio constructed each bright green table and chair using interlocking planks of CNC-cut plywood, making future dismantling, transportation and reassembly as simple as possible.

So when visitors purchase an artwork from the show, they will also be able to take home the furniture piece on which it was displayed in a bid to extend its lifespan.

"We wanted to propose an exhibition design that could have an afterlife," Lanza Atelier founding partner Isabel Martínez Abascal told Dezeen. "This means that the pieces work together as a whole but can then be distributed and become something else."

The site-specific design runs the length of the Storefront gallery

In the exhibition space, the pieces were lined up from end to end to create one continuous surface.

"Storefront is such a particular space," Abascal said. "It is extremely thin, long, and it has a very dynamic facade. We wanted to go from one edge of it to the other so that everything was connected as one unique experience."

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Re-Source, which was Storefront's first in-person exhibition since the start of the pandemic, made use of the gallery's existing material resources to raise money for its continued survival.

And Abascal hopes that the takeaway furniture pieces can play their part in keeping the gallery funded.

"The goal is that eventually, they all end up reused by people in their own houses while simultaneously supporting Storefront's mission," she said.

The tables are combined to form one continuous surface

Lanza Atelier's work for the Re-Source show was shortlisted at the 2021 Dezeen Awards alongside Youssofzay + Hart's design for the No Show exhibition, which features a series of interconnected rooms formed from materials found in hardware stores.

Studio 10's design for the Fashioned from Nature exhibition, housed in the V&A's Shenzhen outpost, took home the top prize in the exhibition design category this year.

The photography is byFrancis Dzikowski.

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Note Design Studio reuses Vestre fair stand to form indoor park installation

Vestre is showcasing a collection of urban furniture that encourages biodiversity at this year's Milan design week, set within a leafy installation constructed by Note Design Studio from one of the brand's old fair stands.

Situated in a warehouse in the Tortona district, the display reuses the same hollow bricks, stone chips and polycarbonate panels that previously formed the award-winning booth the duo created for the 2020 Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair.

The installation is formed from a reused Vestre fair stand (top and above)

The materials were stored in Vestre's factory in Sweden for 19 months before being shipped to Milan. Here, they are joined by a meadow and a family of small shrubs and trees transplanted from a local nursery to form a kind of miniature indoor park housing the brand's new Habitats range.

Reusing the materials and transporting them to Italy, rather than sourcing them from scratch, helped to prevent not just waste but also a considerable amount of carbon emissions, the company claims.

"Transport accounts for less than five per cent of all emissions from material sourcing," CEO Jan Christian Vestre told Dezeen.

"It would have been so much more energy and CO2 demanding to throw the materials from Stockholm away and manufacture new ones in Italy."

Hollow, uncemented bricks are arranged into a meandering landscape

In total, 90 per cent of materials from the original stand were reused, save for the plywood walls and a number of functional metal components.

Note Design Studio turned the polycarbonate ceiling panels into diffusers for the warehouse's stark, industrial lights, while the stone chips were once again used for the flooring.

The uncemented bricks, which formed a linear grid of walls in the original setup, were reimagined into a meandering landscape for Vestre's Milan presence.

Small trees and shrubs were transplanted into the installation from a local nursery

"We wanted to create a room inside a room, so the building materials were actually perfect for that," explained Note Design Studio's senior architect Jesper Mellgren.

"The bricks are not attached, they're just connected by metal bars, so they're really easy to disassemble."

Both the original stand and the reimagined installation are examples of reversible design, meaning they were constructed in a way so they can be easily taken apart and repurposed.

A living meadow covers the floor alongside reused stone chips

After Milan design week, the greenery will be put back into nature and the stones are set to be donated to a local landscape project. Note Design Studio hopes to build a permanent installation from the bricks.

"The whole concept was to make a stand, which you can take apart without causing harm to the materials so every single one can be reused," added the studio's co-founder Johannes Carlström.

"Now, the idea is to build something permanent, maybe a sculpture in a park or a little orangery, because these bricks are pretty good at letting through moisture."

Displayed inside the Milan installation is Vestre's Habitats collection, created in collaboration with Arde and Rethink Studio as well as a team of expert biologists.

The outdoor furniture range was designed to offer a refuge for flora and fauna in urban environments, in the hopes of preventing the rapid decline of biodiversity while bringing city dwellers closer to nature.

Among the pieces are two benches designed to enclose piles of rocks or branches, creating a range of different habitats within otherwise flat, homogenous parks.

Vestre's Habitats collection includes leaf-shaped insect hotels

The Log Bench, for example, is specifically designed to fit around fallen tree trunks and other deadwood, integrating it into the landscape and allowing those seated on the bench to witness the natural process of decay while creating a home for fungi, lichens, mosses and insects.

Also included in the collection are nesting boxes for birds as well as insect hotels shaped like stylised leaves, with perforations of different sizes tailored to different species.

"We want to bridge the gap between nature and people," Vestre explained. "It's about bringing nature back to the cities, taking care of biodiversity, taking care of these species before it's too late."

The red bricks were also used as pedestals for plants

The collection is constructed from locally and responsibly sourced Scandinavian pine as well as "the greenest possible steel", courtesy of Swedish manufacturer SSAB.

"The steel has a 30 per cent lower carbon footprint than the global average," Vestre explained. "It's 20 per cent recycled content and made with renewable energy and more energy-efficient ovens."

"But it's not like it's emission-free," he added. "That's why the most important contribution we can make is actually designing things to last forever."

The installation is housed in a Tortona warehouse as part of Milan design week

All of Vestre's products come with a lifetime warranty so they can be serviced and kept in use for as long as possible.

This forms part of the company's wider aim to achieve net-zero emissions, a goal that has also seen the company become the "first furniture manufacturer in the world" to declare the carbon footprint of all of its products.

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Recyclable opera pavilion to be made from champagne corks and oyster shells

BakerBrown Studio has designed a garden pavilion for the Glyndebourne opera house in England that will use the venue's discarded champagne corks and seafood shells as building materials.

The single-storey Glyndebourne Croquet Pavilion will overlook the South Downs from a small plot on a croquet lawn between existing yew hedges in the house's grounds.

Local office BakerBrown Studio's design employs the principles of a circular economy, relying on the use of waste materials to help minimise the building's carbon footprint.

Pavilion is "material store for the future"

Alongside the use of discarded champagne corks, wine stoppers, and oyster and lobster shells, the studio will also salvage diseased ash trees and use chalk excavated nearby to create the pavilion.

Each material will be incorporated in a way that allows for deconstruction, meaning they will be bolted in place rather than glued to ensure their recyclability and reuse.

"What we're very interested in is reusing stuff that's already been produced, because then, in effect, there's a very negligible carbon footprint," explained the studio's founder, Duncan Baker-Brown.

Above: the pavilion will feature cork cladding inside. Top image: salvaged ash tree and local brick will be used outside

"Another big ambition for the pavilion is that it's a material store for the future, so it can be disassembled," he told Dezeen.

"You have to scratch the head a bit to make sure you're never sticking things together, you're always bolting things together."

Salvaged ash trees to form structure

Glyndebourne Croquet Pavilion's main structure, windows and doors of the pavilion will be made from locally-sourced ash trees that have been logged due to ash dieback disease – a type of fungus that kills the species.

"A lot of lovely old ash trees in the UK now got this fungus, Ash dieback," the architect explained. "We're chasing after the loggers because they're chopping it down and they're chipping it up as for biomass, but actually, it's far more valuable than that."

Externally, bricks will be used as the predominant cladding material, assembled using lime mortar salvaged from piles of chalk left from previous excavations on the estate.

They will be teamed with wall tiles crafted from the opera house's waste oyster and lobster shells, which will be created by bio-based materials specialist Biohm.

The process of making the wall tiles involves grinding the shells and combining them with Biohm's own organic, undisclosed, binder that gives the material the same qualities as concrete or stone.

It will become an events space for attendees to the Glyndebourne

Inside, the Glyndebourne Croquet Pavilion will be lined with plaster, bricks from a local brickyard and cladding made from the estate's discarded cork from champagne corks and stoppers.

Cork's renewable, resistant and insulating properties has made the material an increasingly popular choice in architecture.

The cladding, also made by Biohm, will be made from mashing up the waste cork into granules and binding them with mycelium – a biodegradable fungal material.

Mycelium will also be used to grow insulation panels for the building, a process that involves combining the material with grass clippings.

According to BakerBrown studio, these mycelium panels will have the same performance as conventional insulation and will be completely compostable at the end of the building's useful life.

Materials for project to be collected during opera season

The project was commissioned by the Glyndebourne opera house's owners, who asked for the building to be sustainable and low carbon. It follows the construction of a wind turbine on site that creates more electricity than the busy site requires.

To help minimise its carbon footprint, BakerBrown Studio collaborated with engineering company ElliottWood to assess and reduce the proposal's embodied carbon using its Structural Carbon Tool – an open-source app to help minimise the carbon footprint of construction.

Embodied carbon refers to emissions caused by the manufacturing, construction, maintenance and demolition of buildings, which is currently unregulated in the UK.

Glyndebourne Croquet Pavilion is due to start construction on site in September 2021 for completion in March 2022. The waste materials will be collected on site during this season's opera festival.

The structure will offer an events space for people attending the opera, while also doubling as a teaching and learning facility for local community groups interested in the site.

In 2015, Carmody Groarke designed a pavilion for the Glyndebourne opera house estate, which was made from timber and plastic and designed as a temporary exhibition space.

Prior to founding his eponymous studio earlier this year, Baker-Brown also used waste materials such as floppy discs and toothbrushes to create a building that is used as a research facility and design workshop for the University of Brighton's Faculty of Arts.

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