A bar made out of old IKEA mattresses has won the architecture prize at Chart 2019, ahead of structures built from latex, salt, paper and jute fabric.
Sultan is one of five food and drinks kiosks built by young Danish architects and students for an exhibition at Chart, an art and design fair that took place in Copenhagen over the weekend.
Chart 2019 featured five pavilions promoting sustainable architecture
The challenge was to experiment with how reusable or recycled materials could be used to create more sustainable architecture.
Anne Bea Høgh Mikkelsen, Katrine Kretzschmar Nielsen, Klara Lyshøj, and Josefine Østergaard Kallehave designed and built theirs using every component of IKEA's bestselling mattress.
Sultan is made out of old IKEA mattresses The designers hoped to make a statement about "mindless consumerism". They wanted to highlight the issues in an economic system where it is cheaper and easier to buy new products rather than to recycle old ones.
The project is named Sultan, like the mattress, and repurposes its metal springs, foam stuffing and fabric. These form multilayered, textured walls for the double-height, timber-framed structure.
The mattresses form multilayered, textured walls
Judges awarded the project first prize in the architecture contest, after being impressed with the way it made recycling completely central to the design.
'The Sultan project was a clear winner both because it is conceptually very strong and because its fabricat...