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PORO-City
Los Angeles, CA, United States
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PORO-City
Los Angeles, CA, United States
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2021
SIZE
0 sqft - 1000 sqft
BUDGET
$10K - 50K
Packaging is often a means to an end. We receive a good, unwrap it, and discard the container. However, some forms of packaging, like shipping crates and pallets, are designed for durability and reuse. These sturdy qualities often inspire more robust modes of use than initially intended. The same is true for the milk crate.
PORO-City proposes a dialogue with the many communities of Los Angeles. Milk crates function as a brick system that is neither transparent nor solid, housing the exhibition without imposing a rigid boundary. The milk crate's flexibility allows for various design options that can adapt to different spaces. Moreover, its immediately familiar iconography makes it approachable to a wide range of audiences.
Assembled as undulating porous walls, crates frame views and emphasize the experiential relationship between exhibition and site. The stacked brick pattern recalls the textures of breeze block walls, iconic surfaces of the LA landscape. The combination of bright colors and porosity makes the assemblage enticing to approach and exciting to engage as a place of discovery.
The modularity of the crate allows for flexibility and imagination, and its sturdy construction makes it ideal for reuse. Constantly recombined and reinvented, the aggregated milk crates behave like a lively community.
The goal of the exhibition design is to ensure minimal waste in the production of the exhibit. We present a proposal to reuse all the exhibition materials after the exhibition. We partner with a community organization to formulate a plan for long-term secondary use of the parts of the exhibition. We ensure a minimal alteration to the milk crates and form a creative way to connect the milk crates to build a stable structure that can easily be taken apart for donations.
We donated the milk crates to Shelter Partnership, DIG Center preschool,Beldevere Community Garden, University Cooperative Housing Association, Core Response, Kay's Love for God, Food Not Bombs, Bicycle Kitchen, Sage Community Garden, and Tia Chuchas Centro Cultural as a second home for our exhibition materials. We have collectively discussed ideas including shelving for clothes, planters for community gardening, outdoor storage for preschools, and crates for food distribution.
PORO-City proposes a dialogue with the many communities of Los Angeles. Milk crates function as a brick system that is neither transparent nor solid, housing the exhibition without imposing a rigid boundary. The milk crate's flexibility allows for various design options that can adapt to different spaces. Moreover, its immediately familiar iconography makes it approachable to a wide range of audiences.
Assembled as undulating porous walls, crates frame views and emphasize the experiential relationship between exhibition and site. The stacked brick pattern recalls the textures of breeze block walls, iconic surfaces of the LA landscape. The combination of bright colors and porosity makes the assemblage enticing to approach and exciting to engage as a place of discovery.
The modularity of the crate allows for flexibility and imagination, and its sturdy construction makes it ideal for reuse. Constantly recombined and reinvented, the aggregated milk crates behave like a lively community.
The goal of the exhibition design is to ensure minimal waste in the production of the exhibit. We present a proposal to reuse all the exhibition materials after the exhibition. We partner with a community organization to formulate a plan for long-term secondary use of the parts of the exhibition. We ensure a minimal alteration to the milk crates and form a creative way to connect the milk crates to build a stable structure that can easily be taken apart for donations.
We donated the milk crates to Shelter Partnership, DIG Center preschool,Beldevere Community Garden, University Cooperative Housing Association, Core Response, Kay's Love for God, Food Not Bombs, Bicycle Kitchen, Sage Community Garden, and Tia Chuchas Centro Cultural as a second home for our exhibition materials. We have collectively discussed ideas including shelving for clothes, planters for community gardening, outdoor storage for preschools, and crates for food distribution.
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