[DAB510-Fabrication] Pallet installation

As I want my design to be sustainable as possible, my ideas for prefabrication immediately went to repurposing crates and pallets as the main structural material used. Further reasons for this include the fact that they can be easily transported to site without requiring large trucks (and thus reduce embodied energy), ease of disassembly, and with the site being prone to flooding, damage to the structure will not be costly to repair.

The following is an installation by Flemish sustainable practitioner Oglev Vlaminck* in the entrance hall of an administrative building for the Flemish Government. The user required desks and display space, and the pallets were taken apart after a few months and repurposed for another installation.

I like how the use of a column immediately creates an intimate space, inviting users to walk through and around the small gallery area. There's also a strict division of spaces, with the form articulating the spaces' uses.

Whilst this is a great design incorporating two spaces I need for my node, it is still an interior installation, so weatherproofing will need to be considered.

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* Vlaminck is an interior architect who practices 'maximalism', "a new art movement which uses the excesses and oversupply of our society, in an ethic (sic) way or not, to reshape the sterilised aesthetics off mass production, and to create a new way of thinking in the digitally fouled society" (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Maximalisme/174965135847517).
This mission statement can relate directly to prefab architecture as described by Kieran and Timberlake in Week 2's reading, in which they also dismiss traditional prefab as sterilised, "banal, non-descript shoeboxes" (p106).