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Studio-Method, the Vertical Archive, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2023.



Client: Weelde Rotterdam/DeSturotterdam


The “Vertical Archive” is a pavilion built from waste wood, salvaged from demolition containers and meticulously stacked into a vertical containment structure. Once full, the structure becomes an archive of gathered materials, showcasing the rich patterns of urban bio-waste. 

The project is located in what used to be Weelde, a post-industrial greenfield site occupied by a range of grassroots initiatives, including artist ateliers, a restaurant, and a community garden. Weelde embodied many of the bottom-up, collective, and community-oriented values antithetical to capitalist urban development, but was unfortunately evicted as the city moved to redevelop the area.

Given this context, the monument aims to challenge the ongoing processes of urban demolition and redevelopment, which result in material waste but also often lead to gentrification and social exclusion. 
As an ode to the abundance of waste and the potential of reuse, it gestures towards another vision of urban development, one that would not seek to erase and rebuild but to remember, reconfigure, and regenerate what is already there.

Text source: Studio-Method

Photos ©Riccardo de Vecchiphoto

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tamotsu ito architecture office, Strawberry Shed, 岐阜のいちご作業所・直売所・遊び場, Gifu, Japan, 2022..itoDesign: Tamotsu Ito + Genki Ueyama

Structure: Yoshihiro Fukushima /Graph Studio

Construction: Self-built + Separated Contract

A strawberry shop and packing place put together with playing fields for kids. With the extremely limited budget, our design process was to discover what are freely or cheaply available for the building materials as much as possible.

The main material is the client’s old vinyl house’s curved structural pipes. We have built this project as much DIY as possible, with the help of a carpenter friend.

text source: tamotsu ito architecture office

Photo ©Masaharu Okuda

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Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Wrapped Monuments, Milan, Italy, 1970. 



The monument to the king of Italy Vittorio Emanuele II, on Piazza del Duomo, and the monument to Leonardo da Vinci, on Piazza della Scala, were wrapped with polypropylene fabric and red polypropylene rope, in the fall of 1970, in Milan, Italy.

The fabric had been sewn beforehand according to patterns allowing ample folds. The two wrapped monuments could be seen from the center of the Galleria, simultaneously, at each extremity of the XIX-century grand vaulted pedestrian shopping passageway. The monument to Vittorio Emanuele II projected in front of the late XIV-century-cathedral, the Duomo, while the monument to Leonardo da Vinci was situated in front of the XVIII-century La Scala theater and the Milan City Hall.

All expenses were borne by the artists.

The Wrapped Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II remained for two days, while the Wrapped Monument to Leonardo da Vinci remained for one week.

text source: christojeanneclaude.net

Photo ©Ugo Mulas, Shunk-Kender.

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