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Trash Talk: Recycled Plastic Pavilion 'Pops Up' in Taiwan
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July 25, 2013

Trash Talk: Recycled Plastic Pavilion 'Pops Up' in Taiwan

By Cheryl Kaften
TMCnet Contributor

First came artificial turf. Now, sports stadiums themselves are being designed and built using recycled, green materials. In fact, on July 19, an open-air venue made without steel or reinforced concrete—appropriately called the Feather Pavilion—opened for business in Taiwan.


Located in Taipei City’s Xinyi District, the Nike Area 13 pop-up stadium is a product of collaboration between the local renewable materials building company, Miniwiz Sustainable Energy Development Ltd. and Beaverton, Oregon-based footwear and sportswear company Nike, Inc.

The stadium is suspended by two 200-ton cranes without using any steel reinforced concrete beams and columns. Made of recycled polyethylene terephthalate, or PET, as well as yarns from 35,000 plastic bottles, the structure offers a well-ventilated environment in hot summer evenings through mid-August.

“Material and structure come before appearance and design in this project,” Arthur Huang, managing director of Miniwiz, told the China Times. “During a talk with a friend after I took a run one day, I said I would like to build the lightest and simplest stadium resembling the shape of a sheet of tissue paper pulled up in the center.”

Different from traditional stadiums that use a substantial amount of building materials, Huang said his structure also employs recycled materialsin its environmentally friendly architecture.


The innovative design of Miniwiz’s Feather Pavilion is critically acclaimed by leading organizations such as the Industrial Designers Society of America. (Photo courtesy of Miniwiz)

Out of the Box (News - Alert)

Miniwiz is known for green building designand construction, including the EcoARK Pavilion in Taipei City. Constructed for the 2010 Taipei International Flora Exposition, the nine-story EcoARK was built out of the innovative plastic bricks (called Pollibricks) made from 1.5 million recycled PET bottles. Its public spaces, which operate totally off the grid, cover an area the size of six basketball courts.

The building’s comfortable internal environment comes courtesy of natural ventilation, an exterior waterfall that bathes the structure in water collected from rainstorms, as well as the plastic bricks’ high insulation properties. Embedded solar power captured during the day runs EcoARK’s LED lighting systems at night. The building has hosted numerous fashion shows, a music video filming and a countless number of public meetings.

Using similar technology, the walls of the Feather Pavilion are made entirely of recycled thermoplastic polyurethane with plastic brick interlocks and recycled rice husks to create a resilient structure.

The innovative Beijing project won the Industrial Designers Society of America’s 2013 International Design Excellence Gold Award. (RC-JSM)




Edited by Blaise McNamee


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