more and more pallets #architecture

Pallets are cheap and ubiquitous, with over two billion in circulation around the world, which explains the remarkable resurrection of “ Palletecture projects” lately. The unexpected modular reuse of everyday materials is nothing new in architecture—seemingly every term in architecture school brings with it experiments in the tiling of things like cable ties, styrofoam cups, plastic water bottles, and so on—but the spatially dramatic effects of this particular experiment in large-scale, off-kilter pallet-stacking are worth seeing. In fact, a kind of micro-village of equally fluid forms built entirely from pallets would be fascinating to see…
Architects and designers have been having their way with them, building theaters, refugee housing , art and architecture...

'Pallet house' was designed by Schnetzer Andreas Claus and Pils Gregor, students from the university of vienna. made out of reused pallets it is modular, energy efficient and affordable making it good for low income housing.
Back in 2008 they won the Gaudi European Student Competition, for their design, which was seeking designs for minimal houses of leisure for the XXI century on sustainable architecture. Since then they have exhibited in numerous cities in europe including Venice, Vienna, Linz and Grenoble.

http://www.palettenhaus.com/#
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/9690/pallet-house.html


Denis Francois Oudendijk collaborates with Jan Korbes, a self proclamed purveyor of Garbage Architecture, and usually uses reclaimed materials for small or medium size architectural and design projects.
Its variety of work leads up with urban context and day-by-day life, giving a weird vision, well integrated in an actual context where needs are approached with creativity and quickness.
He choosed pallets to design this 150 people theater in Amsterdam.

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/08/theater-made-from-recycled-pallets.php
http://wrongdistance.com/?p=2050
http://www.vlnr.info/html/n-projecten.html


[Image: photographed/copyright by Mila Hacke, Berlin].

The Palettenpavillon by Matthias Loebermann is a structure made entirely from shipping pallets, ground anchors, and tie rods. Designed to be easily assembled and dismantled, and then entirely recycled at a later date, the resulting building is intended as a temporary meeting place pavilion for the World Ski Championships in 2005.
As the architect writes, the 1300 shipping pallets are "characterized by a complex geometry of open and closed surface portions," with the effect that a staggered stacking of each unit produces "interesting netlike structures." They add that the deceptively curvilinear form becomes a "cave."

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/pallet-house.html
http://www.aml-partner.de/palettenpavillon-bilder.htm