![]() ![]() We discovered a vast quantity of roughly six-by-six metre sheets of Teflon-coated fibreglass fabric that was discarded during the refurbishment of the tensile membrane roof of a Canada Place, a local architectural icon. Our research into locally abundant waste led us to two specific materials: polystyrene packaging material and Teflon-coated fibreglass fabric. Our design work commenced with an intensive investigation of the resource flows of metropolitan Vancouver in an effort to fabricate a project entirely from the soft landscapes of waste we witnessed at the edges of the region. While the strategic use of resources permeates all our design activities, the temporary nature of this commission highlighted the necessity for a profoundly efficient use of resources. Our mandate was to invent a space for residents and visitors to sit and recline, sunbathe and eat, and interact and play. In the spring of 2012 we won a civic commission to design a temporary installation on a prominent city block in the center of downtown Vancouver that sees over 60,000 pedestrians daily. ![]() To build the world anew from the messy softness of garbage necessitates a migration from the solidity of top-down form generation to a bottom-up formlessness a new type of soft tactility and ambiguously flexible shapeliness replete with the tactile and ambient pleasures of the artificially biotic and vegetal: The garbage organic. The installation engages tactically with these materials to produce soft forms that extend the typical range of active and passive social activities, fostering unexpected social encounters and new perspectives on the city. ![]() The project is fabricated entirely from post-consumer and post-industrial waste from the metropolitan Vancouver region. Pop Rocks is a temporary installation that covers a full city block in the center of downtown Vancouver, Canada. ![]()
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