Built from years of moving houses, the chair reflects upon curb side waste culture and the fluidity of young adult life. The piece asks to evolve with its owner instead of being thrown away.
Across friends, share houses and inner-city apartments, moving every other year quietly became normal. Objects no longer fitting new spaces and left at the curb was also an inevitable part of this process. Built from laminated timber and plastic waste collected through the neighbourhood, the object rotates between chair, side table and child’s desk states while retaining its visual identity, designed to remain worth carrying forward as its owner continues through life.
Recycled plastics are collected through neighbourhood donations, local cafés, apartment bins and community Facebook groups before being washed, cut and melted down by hand into dense marbled slabs. A large portion of the material also came from housemates who happened to be relentless milk drinkers.
The making process began between a share house balcony and a community-run maker space, using improvised tools like a sandwich press and portable oven to melt and reshape plastics before using more traditional tools such as a CNC, table saw, band saw, and hand tools to shape and refine.
The discarded plastics twist among themselves, resembling marble while becoming remarkably strong. The recycled plastic slabs are now complete and currently moving into final assembly and structural testing.
Fabrication Location:
Maker Community Inc
Early Design Input From:
Holly Tepper
