The Paper Pavilion, Singapore Retail Building, Architecture Images
The Paper Pavilion – Radical Retail in Singapore
Commercial Interior Design in South East Asia – design by Larry Teo
3 Nov 2017
The Paper Pavilion
Design: SUTD Advanced Architecture Laboratory
Location: Singapore, South East Asia
The Paper Pavilion ? an experimental, recyclable furniture showroom concept involving the use of recyclable materials and novel technologies by student designer Larry Teo of Singapore?s Temasek Polytechnic has been selected as one of the winners of the American Architecture Prize 2017 under the Architectural Design/Small Architecture category.

Located at Singapore?s Geylang Bahru Industrial Estate ? an industrial town which has been re-zoned  by the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore for residential & commercial use. – The Interior Architecture graduate fashioned an adaptive re-use scheme on a pair of existing warehouse units for conversion into a high-tech recyclable furniture showroom to experiment the unconventional use of materials like cardboard as a structural & lighting material, apace with technologies such as piezo-electricity for anthropogenic energy harvesting, resulting in an enthralling environment where space reacts to, absorbs, and recycles the residual energy produced by the activities of its visitors into electricity.
Cardboard ? a humble material that is often neglected and abandoned, delineates the project as a paradigm of un...