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REWIND Rotterdam by SUPERUSE STUDIOS

At Willemsplein under the north side of the Erasmus bridge in Rotterdam SUPERUSE STUDIOS build a complex structure by reusing discarded windmill 's blades.

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Den Haag Afvalbrengstation – Wessel van Geffen Architecten (i.s.m. Superuse Studios)

Waste collection station in The Hague, by Wessel van Geffen incorporation with Superuse Studios. Sheet piles have been reused, old iron has been upgraded to cladding. Only the support structure is new. Solar panels are included in the roof, as well as greenery for the capture of particulate matter. Rainwater is collected and used to flush the hall clean. 

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REwind Almere Poort 

Bus-train transfer station 

Almere municipality, Almere 

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I recently had an article published on the R-Urban Wick blog, exploring the usefulness of SuperUse Studio's 'Oogskart' (Harvestmap) web platform to the work I am doing with Public Works and Wick On Wheels, looking at networks of re-use in Hackney Wick.

This work is supported by the Vodafone World Of Difference Programme, which granted me an award to work with Public Works.

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Parici lamp, Superuse Studios - Video during Object Rotterdam, February 2013

Video pendant la foire "Object Rotterdam"

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Parici Lamp by Superuse Studios - Object Rotterdam, February 2013

Concept Designer - Benjamin Stainier

After the internship at Superuse Studios they develop the lamp I designed into a product.

Here it is at "object Rotterdam" at NAI.

Lampe Parici par Superuse Studios

Concept Designer - Benjamin Stainier

Après mon stage chez SuperUse Studios, ils ont développé la lampe en un produit de Design.

Ils ont aini lancé le produit pour la foire "Object Rotterdam" début Février 2013. Voici quelques photos de cet événement.

Check the following website for more information. / Regardez les sites suivant pour plus d'information

Superuse Studios

http://superuse-studios.com/index.php/2013/01/superuse-studios-object-rotterdam-nai/

photographer - Denis Guzzo

http://www.denisguzzo.com/

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Superuse Studio - Research on Perspex Lamp (Parici), August-September 2012

As a personal project for Superuse Studios, I designed a family lamp set by reusing the old perspex panels with various commercial imprints of cosmetics.

The idea was to create lamp by using one 50 x 50 cm panel. The production time should be minimized, so that it could be affordable to anyone.

When I analyzed the material, I realized that this plastic board has interesting bending possibilities. I first tried to use a simple fohn to bend the edges, but without success. Later on I created myself a dimmable hot wire bender to have a nice uniform angle.

I realized that the board can be only bent in one direction because the commercial sticker on one side might burn or stick off.

To get different lamp shapes I simply cut the rectangular board in various ways: 3 longs strips, 4 little rectangles or 4 triangles.

The concept of the design is creating a set of lamp parts, which can be easily assembled by anybody.  It also should provide possibility to position and modulate the lamp in different ways. For example, the triangular lamp can be used in different ways depending on the number of pieces used : on the wall, hanging or like a diamond.

Recherche sur une lamp en perspex (parici)

Comme projet personnel chez Superuse Studios, j'ai fait le design d'une lampe composé de vieux panneaux de perspex, qui est un panneau plastique translucide, où des imprimés de bouteille de parfum sont collés.

L'idée est d'utiliser le panneau de 50 sur 50 avec le minimum de coupe et de pliage pour minimiser le coût de production. Le design doit être abordable pour tout le monde.

Quand j'ai analysé le materiel, j'ai réalisé que le panneau de plastique pouvaient être plier. J'ai décidé de créer un fil chauffant pour le plier. Le panneau ne pouvait être plier que dans un sens dû à l'impression colé dessus.

J'ai développé deux types de lampes, une où la plaque est coupée en quatre par le milieu de cotés et l'autre où elle est coupé par les diagonales.

Le concept de la lampe est de pouvoir l'assemblé soit même. La particularité de la lampe triangulaire est qu'elle peut être utilisé de différentes manières dépendant du nombre de pièces utilisées: sur le mur, pendante ou comme un diamand.

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Superuse Studios - Manifesta 9, January - May 2012

My main work during my internship at 2012Architecten, now Superuse Studios, was on Manifesta9.

Manifesta 9 is the 9th edition of the famous contemporary art bienale “Manifesta”.

This year, it was held in Genk, Belgium.

They contacted us to realize all the facilities in the building of the exhibition. 

The example of the Methodology for this project was split in 3 phases : 

1. Understanding the place and industries around the project. I had to understand what kind of left overs these industries were producing. After the research an “Harvest map” is created which is the main sourced tool with all kind of information about industries and their left overs.

2. Creating the main lines of a concept with simple sketches by selecting some materials found and discussing with client to decide what has to be done. 

3. Designing on site. This phase was a real design process, where I learned to think and solve problems at the same time as building the design.

Harvest map

The Very First step was to understand the left-overs around the city of Genk where was held Manifesta. 

I had to call many companies around to understand what available and create relations between us and the project and industries. 

In a small scale project the area of harvesting is maximum 50km radius but for this one I had to go further. 

Concept Design

BLACK COAL and WHITE TRASH

From the program we derived that we need to harvest volumes, flat surfaces, a lot of seats and one special object. Since there is a lot of transport involved in the industries, hundreds of Industrial Bulk Containers are stacking up in the area. 

These white plastic volumes are ideal to quickly build lightweight structures. They create identity for the facilities and light sculptures in the dark spaces. A company building furniture, has an immense amount of waterproof cut-offs. Another company can supply big bags. Ford motor company is the biggest ‘new’ industry and can deliver Ford-Mondeo parts with little scratches that we will sculpt into an expressive and functional information desk. Because of this the info-desk will be the most evident, attention attracting object on the ground floor.

All waste that we sourced turns out to be primarily white, most prominently the IBC-tanks with surfaces assembled from white advertisement board, seating consists of white big bags filled up with shredded waste. This creates a strong contrast with the black coal and the dirty, deteriorated building.

LIGHT and DARKNESS

Since we are working in a former mining building, working with darkness is an important feature of the design. The main location for our work will be the basement of the site. 

Building on Site / Designing on site

The building on site part has been done in cooperation with “Refunc”.

Once everything was on site, we began to create and design the real project. This phase is incredibly rich of designing, understanding the material and solving many little problems.

This project has been created and designed by 2012Architecten & Refunc and organize by Tak Production & Manifesta Team.

http://2012architecten.nl/

http://www.refunc.com/

http://manifesta.org/