Sleek Sustainable Housing By Stephane Malka Architecture
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- Charmaine Li
Designed by French architect Stephane Malka, ‘Ame-lot’ is a proposal to create a sleek facade for a student residence in Paris using shipping pallets. Strung together with hinges, hundreds of wooden pallets bend and fold transforming the facade into an elegant structure while using this material in a sustainable way.
+ Read MoreIn a statement about his work, Malka explains: “In reality, ecological strategies often generate an over-production of materials, becoming energy-vores and clients of factories, the polluters of the world. The real ecological combat is within the reappropriation of materials and experimentations with ready-made objects, far from the so-called benevolence of subsidized agencies.”
All images © Stephane Malka
