NY-based designers Martina Decker and Peter Yeadon wanted to address the energy use and waste problems that still plague the furniture industry. They found that even ‘eco’ produced furniture still tended to use materials like aluminum that while being recyclable, required a lot of energy for production. So instead of developing ideas based on creating more ’stuff’, Decker and Yeadon challenged themselves to rethink furniture as a thing. Their project is intended to provoke thought about why buildings and the furniture that fills them can’t be more integrated and efficient.
The OOoo Chair is furniture that is embedded into a building. Decker and Yeadon employed an economy of means by reducing the chair down to essentially nothing. Leg holes are cut into a building’s floor and rings made of recyclable plastic are inserted. The cutout is reused as a cap so the floor can be walked on when no one is seated. Since the chair becomes part of the building’s structure, it can’t be thrown out and doesn’t need to be replaced like a traditional piece of furniture. Via:[PSFK]
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Great idea! Good way to start the process of re-thinking our use of materials and how we go about designing our living spaces to use less materials.
What does the ceiling look like in the apartment one story below?