Nebbia Works has created a self-supporting pavilion from simple aluminium sheets at the V&A museum as part of the London Design Festival to highlight the material's sustainable potential.
Set within the museum's John Madejski Garden, the installation consists of 27 metal sheets of identical dimensions, each propped up by a single leg carved and bent from its surface.
Nebbia Works' pavilion is installed in the V&A's John Madejski Garden
The structure is fused together to create the impression of being one continuous piece and made entirely from one batch of the metal, which manufacturer En+ claims is the "lowest carbon aluminium the world has ever produced".
Only 0.01 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) was emitted for each tonne of material created, the company says, falling far below the four-tonne threshold that is generally applied to low-carbon aluminium. "We're going right down so there are virtually no emissions," En+ communications director Dawn James told Dezeen.
The installation is made entirely of aluminium
Once the festival has come to a close, the pavilion will be melted down into ingot and turned into products, showcasing aluminium's ability to be infinitely recycled.
To enable this, the structure does not rely on the addition of any other materials to hold itself aloft.
27 aluminium sheets are jointed to create the impression of one continuous structure
Instead, its algorithmically designed legs combined with the innate st...