Plastic Palace

2021 National Architecture Awards shortlist

Plastic Palace | Raffaello Rosselli Architects | Photographer: Ben Hosking


2021 National Architecture Awards: SMALL PROJECT Architecture

Plastic Palace | raffaello rosselli ARCHITECTs

Traditional Land Owners: The Wiradjuri People

We live in a disposable society based on the excessive production of disposable goods, largely fuelled by plastics. The Plastic Palace, a temporary pavilion and material research for Murray Art Museum Albury confronts the impacts of this way of life, by inviting the public to step inside 20 tonnes of discarded plastic, the typical amount of plastic waste discarded by a regional Australian town in just one month, and reflect on the scale of the waste problem created by their discarded possessions.

Construction materials contribute up to a quarter of the worlds greenhouse emissions and landfill waste. This project attempts to influence the discourse and explore ways architects can use design thinking to mitigate some of these impacts, and work towards a sustainable built environment.

Plastic Palace | Raffaello Rosselli Architects | Photographer: Jeremy Weihrauch

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How does the design benefit the way you live/work/play/operate/educate/other?

“Plastic Palace was commissioned by Murray Art Museum Albury (MAMA), to develop the inaugural summer place pavilion and exhibition. MAMA’s brief was for a place to provide refuge from the sun while exploring the artists interest in sustainability and materials. MAMA worked closely with the architect providing access and support to collaborate with Albury Councils waste management centre to help the council achieve their ambitious goal of halving waste by 2020, through education and recycling systems.

Practice team:

Raffaello Rosselli, Project Architect

Callum Coombe, Graduate of Architecture

Elsa Dominish, Sustainability research

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