Local studio Bolsón has refabricated low-density plastic used in banana production to create interior cladding and furniture for Mooni in Mexico City during the city's art week.
Called Banana Blue, the installation was made from low-density blue plastic used for protecting banana crops at a plantation in Jalisco owned by the family of the wife of Bolsón's founder, Noberto Miranda, as well as local urban waste.
Miranda gathered the plastic and used a heat gun and body pressure to turn the plastic into cladding for Mooni, an art gallery and boutique shop in the city's Condesa neighbourhood.
Miranda told Dezeen that the project seeks to both reuse the material that was often thrown away and to constitute a "manual" relationship with working with plastic, as seen in his use of body weight and hand fabrication to create the material. Bolsán wrapped Mexico City gallery Mooni in recycled plastic upholstery
Banana Blue was used for the cladding of the facade as well as parts of the shop's interior.
"Seeking to reassign meaning to this waste and propose a different relationship with this omnipresent but often misunderstood and discarded material, Bolsón transforms the useless into pieces of art and utilitarian objects of aesthetic value, with the prevalence of the color blue," said Mooni.
"Banana Blue is a dialogue between nature, art, and sustainability."
The installation included wall cladding and objects
In addition to the cladding material, seve...