Isabel Avendaño Hazbún, Pyxis (FURNITURE 2025)

Photos:

Matthew McQuiggan

Video tour:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Stl_7nfEFNYsAEbQu5sYbg2eW1Wp1lJ5/view?usp=drive_link

Country

Australia

This work is part of a collection titled Industry: a circular economy model. It considers the finite nature of timber as an invaluable material resource and the availability as a throwaway item of bicycle tyre inner tubes. It was designed for disassembly, reuse or repurpose, storage and transport using dry joinery and rubber’s elastic properties. Part of this collection’s research was finding an alternative use for the sawdust left from the manufacturing processes. The sawdust was salvaged then treated creating a composite that can be pressure moulded, coloured using natural dyes and disposed of organically. This work tests the possibilities of moulding the material into shapes containing joinery. The eucalyptus dyed pulp panels and the timber corners of the box have a small overlapping lip where a rubber strip is threaded through tensioning both materials in place creating a single panel. The timber corners have a housed lap joint for easy disassembly. The base references the triangular geometry of trusses for strength. Each hollow octagonal rod is tied together with rubber helped by its flat facets using lashing methods specific to bamboo scaffolding.

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