Cardboard

NGUNNAWAL COUNTRY.  The design of the space for a future-directed fashion exhibition, a vibrant Think Tank about the challenges that will inspire the next generation of Australian fashion designers, conceived wholly in folded cardboard as zero waste exhibition architecture. The interactive fashion exhibition in the Gallery of Australian Design (GAD), curated by close friend Cate Shaw, was to set into scene selected fashion designs from six design schools in a vibrant Think Tank about the challenges that will inspire the next generation of Australian fashion designers. The message of the show, considerate and sustainable fashion, is reflected in the materiality and construction of the exhibition architecture: folded cardboard assemble... More

Wikkelhouse is a unique modular concept. Individual standard segments can be simply interlinked with hidden connections to form a (holiday) home or office. Fiction Factory, a creative and innovative company in Amsterdam, can make a Wikkelhouse in any desired style.The base of Wikkelhouse is virgin fiber cardboard, which is made from Scandinavian trees. This top-quality cardboard is wrapped around a unique patented house-shaped mould, while environmentally friendly glue is added. This results in a robust sandwich structure with optimal insulation qualities and structural strength. After wrapping the cardboard each segment is covered with a waterproof but breathable foil. This foil makes sure the cardboard doesn’t get drenched during rain whi... More

The exhibit pavilion for GB Gnudi Bruno works and research on flexible and light temporary structures. it tries to represent products and technologies, involved to create extremely advanced and innovative packaging systems, that outline Bologna district worldwide known as the "packaging valley".The module as structure, with its infinite mash-up and the cardboard as material, with its layers and sides, are the generative, spatial, architectural and aesthetic elements of the project, able to witness a process that produces the containers for any product today in the world market, from syringes to biscuits.The big assembly line machines are the actors of the space but are contained inside a curtain wall of C-shaped cardboard modules that are r... More

698 cardboard tubes, 822 cardboard boxes, 865 sq. of cardboard panels and 63 meters of concertinaed cardboard create facades, exhibition spaces, an auditorium, or even slides and labyrinths for the latest Amadora BD International Comics Festival. Designed by Vírgula i for a two weeks exhibition, the studio evokes popular fairs and the never ending stories of Calvin & Hobbes and its cardboard imaginary, to set the tone to the festival, dedicated this year to the world of children within comics. As in Calvin’s and its incredibly versatile card box, the material was highlighted in the project to perform diverse tasks, forms and constructive systems. From straight walls to foldable structures, stackable walls or even puzzled systems, cardbo... More

Paper Clinic by WeNew Innovation. The entire project was built under 150m2 of re-used cardboard structures and paper packaging. After the exhibition, the space was 100% recycled. This is a conceptual aesthetic clinic that contains 7 rooms for body and facial aesthetic services, plus a reception lounge and a corridor. The Paper Clinic is a space designed exclusively for the Beauty Fair 2014, aiming to strengthen the aesthetics products/services sector through a model space that housed trendy product launches in the of body and facial aesthetics market. There were a huge popularization of aesthetic services in the last years. The advanced of those treatments are no longer an elitist service reserved to a particular status and purchasing... More

Coming soon. Stix+Domino is a limited edition cardboard multifunctional furniture decorated with Toiles de Mayenne fabrics. More information here : http://twistateliercreatif.blogspot.fr/ More

318 prepared dc-motors, cork balls, cardboard boxes 100x100x100cm Zimoun 2013 Temporary Exhibition. DC-motors, filler wires, cork balls, cardboard boxes, power supply. Installation view: Opernwerkstätten Berlin, Germany. Dimensions: 40 x 4 x 4m / 131 x 13 x 13 ft. Photography by Zimoun © | Courtesy Studio Zimoun. Video: https://vimeo.com/65501636 www.zimoun.net «Using simple and functional components, Zimoun builds architecturally-minded platforms of sound. Exploring mechanical rhythm and flow in prepared systems, his installations incorporate commonplace industrial objects. In an obsessive display of simple and functional materials, these works articulate a tension between the orderly patterns of Modernism and the chaotic... More