Design For Sail at IDSwest
In partnership with IDSwest and Canada Place, AFH Vancouver is proud to present Re-Fab: Design For Sail — the creative reuse of the legacy sails fabric from Canada Place.
What once was iconic roofing comes to life as a new everyday object. Design For Sail challenges local designers to bring new considerations to this teflon-coated, waterproof, fire-rated, fabric material.
Curated design will be on display at IDSwest 2011 (September 29 – Oct 2).
Participants include:
3G1B
Buddhist Junk
Contexture Design
Designers at Large
Fieldwork
Vancouver Design Nerds
Nathan Martell
Nerds Jam
Nerds Jam
Nerds Jam
Design Nerds Jam Poster
Picking Up Materials for “Design For Sail”
Patch & GROW at Southeast Falsecreek
Self-watering raised bed containers with Canada Place sail fabric and cedar frame by Patch for GROW, an urban agriculture lab and public art project.
Picking Up Material
Picking Up Material
Reblog: Delta Optimist
Yay, that’s our fabric in the design!
Image & Post: http://www.delta-optimist.com/sports/South+Deltans+share+African+vision/5023588/story.html
Project Tujifunze Prefab Material (w/ Roof Fabric) off to Tanzania
Image Credit: http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=2289422
For more information www.projecttujifunze.com
Exploration Continues
Seeder Closeup
Experiments @ SOLEfood Farm
Bundle Closeup
Site Visit
Hello World
About
Re-Fab is a partnership between Canada Place and Vancouver Architecture For Humanity Society (AFH Vancouver) to repurpose the fabric from the old Canada Place sails for new uses. For more information with regards to this initiative and its latest development, please sign up for our email list here.
There are two major streams for this initiative:
1: If you are interested in this material in large/urban scale, please click here.
2: Re-Fab: Design for Sail (In Partnership with IDSwest 2011) please email here.
AFH Vancouver is a not-for-profit organization and will seek corporate support for this legacy initiative. If your company is interested in becoming a corporate sponsor, please contact us here.
