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Architects: Overtreders W, bureau SLA
- Year: 2017
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Photographs:Filip Dujardin
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Manufacturers: DEGO, Elektroned, Govaerts, Heezen, IJB groep, Keizersgrachtkerk, Logistiek Concurrent, Morssinkhof, Pretty Plastic, Stiho group, TETRiS, Van Happen
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Lead Architects: Hester van Dijk, Peter van Assche, Reinder Bakker
Text description provided by the architects. The pavilion is a design statement of the new circular economy, a 100% circular building where no building materials were lost in construction. The designers of the bureau SLA and Overtreders W accomplished this with a radical new approach: all of the materials needed to make the 250 m2 building were borrowed. Not only materials from traditional suppliers and producers, but also from Eindhoven residents themselves. And to be clear, it’s not 70% or 80% or even 95%, but 100% of the materials: concrete and wooden beams, lighting, facade elements, glass roof, recycled plastic cladding, even the Pavilion’s glass roof, all of which were returned completely unharmed - with one special exception - to the owners following the DDW. The exception? The striking colored tiles that made up the Pavilion’s upper facade, made from plastic household waste materials collected by Eindhoven residents, which were distributed among those very residents at the end of DDW.
