Designer Weonrheeoften known as Jongwon Lee, has launched a brand new sustainable challenge with a deal with the fabric that’s based mostly by itself cultural and historic background and the origin story of the fabric. primitive constructions, is a collection of small tables and stools resembling ‘dolmen’, or a sort of one-chambered megalithic tomb, normally consisting of two or extra upright megaliths supporting a big flat horizontal capstone. Over time, moss grows to cowl these constructions. In keeping with a examine, South Korea has 70% of the world’s dolmen, and so it turned the widespread architectural motif utilized by Weonrhee all through.
Sustainability was a high precedence at Weonrhee all through the whole challenge. PSL is a down-cycled materials, that means it’s recycled in such a manner that the ensuing product has a decrease worth than the unique merchandise. It’s a part of a household of Structural Composite Wooden (SCL) made utilizing dried and graded wooden veneers. Strands or flakes are laid on high of one another earlier than being bonded along with a moisture-resistant glue. The ensuing materials evokes a primitive really feel via its texture and sample.
The engineered wooden beams used to create primitive constructions make the most of waste supplies from plywood and LVL manufacturing, and generally embody Douglas fir, pine, and western hemlock, amongst others. PSL can be generally utilized in architectural frames, additional extending the architectural motif all through the challenge. In flip, through the use of PSL, Weonrhee created a beneficial object via what was initially thought of rubbish.
PSL proved good for creating the polygonal shapes mimicking dolmens. Through the manufacturing course of, the fabric develops grooves within the floor, however the designer had an answer to attain “visible completeness” and security – by putting repeatedly falling items of PSL into these holes over and over, till solely a easy floor stays.
The final step is so as to add colour. “When it comes to color, I used to be impressed by the moss on the floor of the dolmen. The moss on the floor of the stone has been fashioned over a protracted time frame and had pearl and parakeet inexperienced colours, and this half additionally confirmed [as] primitive,” Weonrhee mentioned.
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