Architect Shigeru Ban is well known for a number of high-profile architectural designs but perhaps less so for his artistic and ecological side projects such as the cardboard bridge pictured above. This bridge is composed over over 250 recycled cardboard tubes with recycled paper and plastic comprising the stairs. Amazingly, this recycled bridge can hold up to 20 people at once!
http://ecoble.com/2008/03/12/10-unusually-creative-ways-to-recycle-ordinary-objects/
However, i had it in my mind that these blocks would be solid, this is another possible recycled material:
The BituBlock may interesting and almost artistic … until you realize it is made from post-consumer recycled products including ash, glass and, yes, sewage. Still, it doesn’t smell and ultimately it is an incredibly strong and durable building block that rivals other materials such as concrete that would be used in similar situations – and does so using almost entirely reused and recycled materials.
BUT..... why not have the materials so they decay/dissolve/are no longer present? The work could be a temporary thing .... the materials are just no longer useable after a while because they are going back to the balance of life... the last position they were in would slowly degrade into /onto its elf and change sculpturaly but still be the same object.
http://www.michael-hansmeyer.com/projects/columns.html?screenSize=1&color=1#1
But then why be set on having to balance things ... progress from balancing ...
Michael Hansmyer
I could propose to do something like this but with me own design and in different shaped blocks then i am staying with the same idea of building/balancing blocks but also making them more interesting than what has already been done; the big children's blocks for the public..... more mature art work which is what i have been wanting to aim for... more refined and sofisticated.
Making people aware of their impact on the planet... also amazing art work and personal as people can come and add to it ... can also write messages in the newspaper ... sentimental, more alive and real.
Using paper or cardboard would allow the material/ form to disintegrate after it had been left outside long enough.
Corks would be light weight but would hold its form ... however this may be a good thing and go with my original idea.
So much cardboard and paper is wasted so would be an excellent material to use in recycling terms ... and it is free. However, it would be very heavy for people to lift and therefore less interactive.
I love the way these shapes fit together. But, it seems they all fit together in a certain way so the way they are dictates they way they should be ... which i don't like.
Paper pulp can be made into blocks that would deform.
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