Plastic Archives

Plastic Archives

Navn
Anna Baumann
Uddannelsesgrad
Kandidat
Fagfelt
Arkitektur
Institut
Arkitektur og Teknologi
Program
Arkitekturens teknologi
År
2025
Udmærkelser
Månssons

Can we use our existing building mass to store single-use-plastics as a form of end-of-life-treatment?

The combination of the high CO2 footprint and the extremely short lifespan of packaging plastics makes them one of earths most problematic materials. But by utilizing their unique material properties, packaging plastics can be recycled into cellular-structured building materials, that can be used as partition walls or insulation in transformations and renovations. This prolongs their usable lifespan and can reduce the risk of plastic pollution.
The cellular structure of stretched packaging plastics is both an aesthetic and a technical phenomenon and can change our perspective on this morally charged material. Rethinking plastic waste can possibly turn this problem into a dream.

Changing the perspective

Packaging plastics have been developed for a single purpose - and often for single use. But the material can be transformed into beautifully expanded forms with cellular, almost organic structures. By rethinking the way we use and work these materials, we can start to change our perspective on them. Plastics are our future. It is time we treat plastic waste as a resource instead of a problem and discover the hidden beauty in the material.

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Cellular Structure Plate I
Cellular Structure Plate II
Cellular Structure Plate III
Cellular structure II
Cellular structure III
Cellular structure I
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Circular packaging plastic?

How circular can packaging plastic be? By taking the traditional model for circularity and expanding it into everyone of a material's possible life cycles, we can start to better explain and understand a its circularity.

Foils used for packaging for example can often be recycled once before they lose the qualities we value them for. They however do have the potential to be recycled into something else with a possibly longer lifespan? The Spiral can visualize the many (often unused) potential life cycles of a material and change the way we view them.

Livscykler af plast

Det Kongelige Akademi understøtter FN’s verdensmål

Siden 2017 har Det Kongelige Akademi arbejdet med FN’s verdensmål. Det afspejler sig i forskning, undervisning og afgangsprojekter. Dette projekt har forholdt sig til følgende FN-mål

Månssons

Juryen sagde: Projektet undersøger, hvordan plastemballage fra byggesektoren kan genanvendes og upcycles til brugbare bygningsapplikationer. Projektet adresserer de globale udfordringer, vi står over for med plastforurening og uønskede, svært nedbrydelige materialer. Drevet af et stort ønske om at bidrage til mere bæredygtige tilgange arbejder Anna med praktiske undersøgelser, skitser og teknisk-analytiske metoder.

Særligt stærkt i projektet er Annas evne til at kombinere kunstneriske metoder med videnskabelig viden. Projektet udvikler løsninger, der både er innovative, praktiske og bygbare, forstærket af de æstetiske potentialer, som de tekniske muligheder åbner op for.