RECYCLABLE SHOWROOM

Larry Teo, a former student at Singapore’s Temasek Polytechnic, has designed The Paper Pavilion, an experimental, recyclable and ultimately sustainable furniture showroom.

The interior architecture graduate converted a pair of warehouse units on an industrial estate, combining the unconventional use of materials such as cardboard with the use of piezo-electricity for anthropogenic energy harvesting, resulting in an environment where the spaces react to visitors, absorbing and recycling the residual energy their activities produce into electricity.

Cardboard has been used to create an array of ‘paper trees’ that act as distinctive vertically orientated display spaces for merchandise, while their potential for lighting properties has been optimised through the strategic locating of apertures on all sides of the building, reducing the need for excessive artificial lighting.