Recycling

Craftsmen of recycling

Sawaya & Moroni
Sawaya & Moroni emerges on the international design scene in 1984 relatively quickly combining professional talent of architect and designer William Sawaya with entrepreneurship of Paolo Moroni. The company is now set as a manufacturer of high quality design furniture.
Both partners are from areas unrelated to the furniture, so the lack of family’s tradition to be respected and passed, typical of this area, becomes a positive element, free from all conceptual and productive restrictions. Thanks to this freedom borns a collection of limited editions signed by the great protagonists of contemporary architecture, design and art, together with a multitude of furniture, silver and artifacts that have found place in private collections and design museums around the world.

Danese Milano
Since its foundation in the fifties Danese Milano has been a company that gives value to space. The spirit of the time and the centrality of the human being are reflected in the importance that the company assigns to the choice of authors it involves. The quality of the materials it applies and the synthesis of forms achieved so far transcend seasonality. The story of Danese Milano is a narration of material culture, suggested functions, discreet pedagogies and practical beauty.

WASP
WASP - World's Advanced Saving Project is Italy's pioneering 3D Company founded by Massimo Moretti in 2012. Inspired by the Potter Wasp, which builds its own nest with material recovered from the surrounding environment, WASP was born with the aim of developing large-scale 3D printers, to build houses with natural materials available on the territory. Its goal is to bring real benefits to people through innovation and research. A wide range of WASP 3D printers has been developed to answer human needs: food, housing, health, energy, work, art and culture
In 2015 WASP presented the Big Delta WASP 12 meters, the largest printer in the world, with the aim of building houses with natural materials from the surrounding area.
In 2018 WASP launched Crane WASP, an innovative technology to print on-site eco-districts at low environmental impact, and has built Gaia, the first 3D printed house with earth by Crane WASP.

Tecla

©Enrico Sua’ Ummarino

“Tecla”, an impactful architectural design experiment conducted in 2021 by MCA and WASP made of clay sourced in situ, is the source of the inspiration for (and of the name of) the generous bucket seat presented by Sawaya & Moroni.
The structure’s single unitary shell, reminiscent of an upturned architectural cupola, houses the upholstered part of the seat and backrest, to which two further cushions are added by way of ensuring a correct ergonomic support. The 3D printing technology already tested for the inhabitable space is now used on the scale of the furnishings for the version of “Tecla” made of recycled plastic, while the wooden model that is made by assembling elements of solid wood employs stained ash sourced from controlled plantations, whose processing and finishing stages are based on strict respect for the environment.

Material recycled plastic model plasmix (heterogeneous polyphenyl polymers, recycling of so-called “dirty” plastics)
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“Tecla”, an impactful architectural design experiment conducted in 2021 by MCA and WASP made of clay sourced in situ, is the source of the inspiration for (and of the name of) the generous bucket seat presented by Sawaya & Moroni.
The structure’s single unitary shell, reminiscent of an upturned architectural cupola, houses the upholstered part of the seat and backrest, to which two further cushions are added by way of ensuring a correct ergonomic support. The 3D printing technology already tested for the inhabitable space is now used on the scale of the furnishings for the version of “Tecla” made of recycled plastic, while the wooden model that is made by assembling elements of solid wood employs stained ash sourced from controlled plantations, whose processing and finishing stages are based on strict respect for the environment.

Material recycled plastic model plasmix (heterogeneous polyphenyl polymers, recycling of so-called “dirty” plastics)
Material wooden model stained ash wood
Production Sawaya & Moroni
Year 2023
Photo Enrico Sua’ Ummarino
Sketch Archivio MCA
Team Mario Cucinella

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  • ©Enrico Sua’ Ummarino

  • ©Enrico Sua’ Ummarino

  • ©Enrico Sua’ Ummarino

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  • ©Enrico Sua’ Ummarino

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Petronio

©Francesco Paolucci

The “Petronio” stool is inspired by the characteristic hexagonal geometry of two historic buildings in Bologna: the façade of the Basilica of San Petronio and the ancient walls of the medieval city. The circle of city walls was built by the “reuse” method, which consisted of reusing materials recovered from Roman buildings that had been destroyed.

Recycling, in fact, was one of the sources of inspiration that created the Petronio stool, which is pressed entirely in Plasmix, a compound obtained from recycling so-called “dirty” plastics that would otherwise go to landfill or be incinerated.

The stool is completely hollow, lightweight and easily transportable and, if required, has an optional wooden top that transforms it into a small table.
The stool can be used on both sides, as a straight seat or as a small saddle on which to sit straddled.
Available in anthracite grey, terracotta, and forest green.

Dimensions:44x47xh44 cm

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The “Petronio” stool is inspired by the characteristic hexagonal geometry of two historic buildings in Bologna: the façade of the Basilica of San Petronio and the ancient walls of the medieval city. The circle of city walls was built by the “reuse” method, which consisted of reusing materials recovered from Roman buildings that had been destroyed.

Recycling, in fact, was one of the sources of inspiration that created the Petronio stool, which is pressed entirely in Plasmix, a compound obtained from recycling so-called “dirty” plastics that would otherwise go to landfill or be incinerated.

The stool is completely hollow, lightweight and easily transportable and, if required, has an optional wooden top that transforms it into a small table.
The stool can be used on both sides, as a straight seat or as a small saddle on which to sit straddled.
Available in anthracite grey, terracotta, and forest green.

Dimensions:44x47xh44 cm

Material: structure: plasmix (heterogeneous polyphenyl polymers obtained by recycling so-called “dirty” plastics); optional wooden top
Manufacturer: Danese
Year: 2023
Photographs: Michele Nastasi
Visualisation: MCA Visual
Project team: Mario Cucinella, SOS – School of Sustainability (Lorenzo Abate, Giulia Cenciarelli, Enrico Ferri, Benedetta Mingardi), Antonella Di Luca

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Arcipelago Bag

©Giulia Cucinella

Arcipelago is the bag born from the recovery of the fabrics used during the exhibition “Arcipelago Italia”, designed for the Italian pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale. From the revalorization of the fabrics that covered the eight books and their transformation into a new artifact, a process of functional recycling comes to life, leading to the creation of a unique and unrepeatable narrative object. The bag is totally Made in Italy and available in two versions, double shoulder strap and tote bag.

Material Recycled fabrics
Production MCA
Year 2020
Photo Fabrizio Cicconi, Giulia Cucinella, Urban Reports, Giovanni De Sandre
Team Mario Cucinella, Antonella Di Luca, Bianca Gabrielli, Lucrezia Rendace

  • Inspiration: “Arcipelago Italia”, the Italian pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale, ©Urban Reports

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  • ©Fabrizio Cicconi

  • ©Giovanni De Sandre

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