We designed an exhibition space for the 10th anniversary of the down jackets produced by DESCENTE, one of the leading sportswear brands in Japan.
Considering that it was a one-day exhibition, we felt that we shouldn’t produce a large amount of materials that would then become waste. Instead, we conceived the idea of using only recycled materials as a constraint for our design by asking the down jacket factory to save all waste generated from the manufacturing process to incorporate it into the space.
The exhibition took place in the DESCENTE BLANC Daikanyama store designed by Schemata Architects. The interior is characterized by a combination of movable steel pipe racks hung inside the large vertical space, allowing for multiple variations of merchandise displays and storage. We used the pipe racks to hang scrap fabric arranged in a formal pattern, in order to compartmentalize the information as well as visualize the space.
There were two variations of the waste fabric: one was shortly cut pieces of rolled fabric and the other was the thin strips produced when cutting rolled fabric along the pattern.
The short rolled fabric was connected to create strips of equal length using the thermo-compression bonding method used in the manufacturing of the down jackets, which were then hung from the pipe racks to form a cube-like floating object. The thin strips were stuffed into the latticed steel racks designed by Schemata Architects, which formed the exhibition display tables.