Recycled
Giving a second life to materials or products that have been processed from waste to be remanufactured into new items.
Professional Internship, Mallol Arquitectos
TYPE: Benches, Front Desk, Kiosk
PROGRAM: Parametric Furniture
COLLABORATOR: Kenny Valdespino
LOCATION: Panama City, Panama
YEAR / STATUS: 2023 / proposal
At a smaller scale, I developed a series of campus furniture and kiosk prototypes designed to support student activity and entrepreneurship. These included recyclable kiosks where students could sell products made in their courses, as well as parametric benches intended to be distributed throughout the campus.
Beyond Mies reimagines mid-rise housing in Chicago through a dialogue between the disciplined order of Miesian modernism and the organic identity of Bronzeville. Set beside the Illinois Institute of Technology, the project is formed from the Miesian campus grid but challenges its rigidity through softer, more expressive gestures.
Responding to the project’s sustainability goals, the furniture pieces were designed using recycled HDPE sheets, made from compressed plastic waste. Through Grasshopper, I explored different bench and front desk variations by adjusting simple parameters, allowing the designs to be flexible, efficient, and aligned with the campus’s eco-conscious vision.
