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Pupa by Lazerian
Manchester designer Liam Hopkins of Lazerian used waste cardboard from media company Bloomberg to construct a meeting area inside their London headquarters.
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The recycled cardboard was pulped and reconstituted into triangular sections, which combine to create the cave-like Pupa structure.
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The curved form wraps around a 14-seat table that also has a surface of tessellated cardboard.
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The legs of the table and surrounding chairs were fabricated from dismantled timber pallets, while the padded chair seats are covered with leather offcuts.
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We've published a few projects from product design studio Lazerian on Dezeen - see our earlier stories here, including a collection of candle holders shaped like laboratory beakers.
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Photography is by Alex Maguire.
Here's a bit more text from Hopkins:
Pupa is a habitat by Liam Hopkins of Lazerian within Bloomberg's London headquarters made from reclaimed cardboard and pallets.
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The form and aesthetics are inspired by natural habitats – cocoons, bee hives, spiders nests and weaver birds nests.
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The ceiling assumes the appearance of a shelter; snug and cave like, but also references the vaulted ceilings of church naves.
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The numbers which can be extrapolated from Pupa reflect the almost Sisyphean task faced, whether by human, bird or insect, to create these sort of structures:
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- 3,972 triangular cardboard borders make up frame
- 3,972 triangle inners fill the exoskeleton providing the cover
- 180 wooden pallets taken apart for chair frame and legs
- 11,000 nails removed from wooden pallets
- 252 leather offcuts from make up the chair seats
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Constructed in triangular sections Pupa utilises the structural and acoustic properties of cardboard.
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Computer design techniques were used to generate the form and the individual components were then extracted from the virtual model to create flat layouts that are glued together by hand.
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The original Bloomberg cardboard arrived in damp bales so was pulped and re-constituted at a John Hargreaves factory in Stalybridge using machinery originally installed in 1910.
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