WORK: 2006-2009
January 4 through March 27, 2010

Working within the existing exhibition framework, as developed by the Department of Architecture in the mid 1990’s, atelierjones deconstructed the shear and lateral support of the structure and replaced it with collected waste materials: cardboard tubes and plastic packing straps.  Beginning in December 2009, cardboard tubes were collected from multiple sources, all standard reprographic houses in the Seattle area, serving the region’s architecture, engineering and contracting communities. 

The exhibit is to be installed in phases, each revealing more of the firm’s work, as the waste tubes are made available to be collected for display.  Each built display module at 19.5” x 46” comprises of 81 tubes varying in lengths from 30” to 36”. One display module equals approximately one week’s worth of tubes from five different sources. We anticipate using approximately 1,072 tubes, not including the prototype tubes used in our office explorations, representing approximately 53,000 sq yds of paper, or almost 500,000 square feet of paper that is consumed by the AEC industry every two months within the Seattle metropolitan area. 

The potential exists for all twelve display modules to be built out within the existing frame.  As more material is collected, the exhibit will change both in its content and form, documenting the flow of the immense amount of waste produced by the AEC community, even during its current economic downturn. The cardboard tubes will be recycled to be used in the next cycle of production of our region’s design drawings.

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