THE DENMARK PAVILION
What if a chair was made from waste plastic (both industrial and ocean waste), and the chair could be both a dinning and lounge chair, and stabled becomes a shelve and a facade system.
Imagine then 2500 chairs ironically put together creating a pavilion for 9 weeks at the Olympics and then become disassembled and used as chairs until the next exiting venue appears in this case the world’s largest design fair in Milan.
The pavilion won the Danish Design Award 2021. The jury said: “It is more than a building, it is an ecosystem and a very powerful showcase of Danish design today. It shows that this iconic piece of Danish design – a chair – can be so much more. It addresses a fundamental problem with major events – waste – and rethinks how a pavilion is used and financed while still maintaining a high aesthetic quality. It is almost Olympic in its iconic and monumental design.”
Due to Corona the pavilion never made it to Tokyo. But the concept proved its modular and mobile qualities at the Milan Design Week 2021. The Denmark Pavilion Milan was built of more than 700 chairs. The chairs are made of ocean- and industrial waste plastic. The floor of the pavilion was made of recycled wood, and the roof shingles were made of waste plastic in a refugee camp in Uganda. The pavilion is now being design for next exiting venue please follow us at insta ….
LOCATION
Tokyo, Japan
CLIENT
Visit Denmark
PARTNERS
Realdania
VisitDenmark
BRIQ
Structured Environment
MOE
YEAR
2021
