丨日本东京丨Florian Busch Architects

Florian

Busch

Architects

Location

Nakadai Project

Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, 2010

Towards a New Materiality

Industrial waste’s vast opportunities

The

Nakadai

factory is a vast archive of materials where flows of time overlap: Discarded, no longer used parts from the past next to today’s industry’s left-overs that have been stencilled out or over-produced. It is a material library that reflects our ways of living, our daily environments.

Walking around the factory must be a paradise-like experience for the bricoleur. Yet to merely turn the masses into an arrangement of industrial waste would mean to forgo opportunity. Our aim has to be and is higher: Here is vast potential for a new, unexpected materiality out of what the waste is providing. What is the norm in waste-collection processes is some sort of purification through separation followed by amalgamation of the more or less pure into something as close as possible to the material the waste was originally made from. What we instead suggest is persistent (ab–)usage of the waste’s intrinsic and often ingenious qualities.

Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, 2010

Type

Exhibition

Status

Completed

Team

Florian Busch, Momoyo Yamawaki, Tomoyuki Sudo, Yu Kikuchi (Intern), Yu Hsi Lin (Intern)

Textile Design: Yoko Ando

Music: Melonest (Shuyu Yanagida)

Lighting Design: Izumi Okayasu

Product Design: Satoru Taniyama

Project Management: Daisuke Hirose

Contractor: Atomos Corporation, Nakadai Corporation

Client: Nakadai Corporation

Producer: Design Association NPO

Sponsor: Nakadai Corporation

Size

GFA: 36 m² (exhibition booth)

Structure

Industrial waste HDPE (high density polyethylene)

Industrial waste steel

Lecture

Talk at Nakadai Forum, 2010

publications

FBA | selected works | Vol. 1, 2016

FBA | selected works, 2012

Space from Industrial Waste, 2010