In an effort to celebrate International Recycling Day, and raise awareness about the cause, the Department of Environment for the Government of Granada joined forces with a waste collection company and broke the Guinness world record for the largest structure built from recycled materials. The aim was to encourage the public to recycle by example. By turning a common piece of packaging, the Tetrabrik, normally used for milk cartons, into a structure that was 7 metres tall, 30 metres long and 15 metres wide.
To achieve this, they turned the packaging into a form of 'Lego brick' by clamping them together at a 135º angle to each other, which allowed for the quick assembly of the record-breaking structure.
The completed structure used 45,000 milk cartons, collected from 100 colleges, and comprised of two major free-standing parts: the wall- a solid latticed base, and the tower- a soaring core section that linked two base walls.
The project took only two weeks to complete, thanks to the innovative method used, as well as the hard work put in by architecture students from local colleges.
After being on display in the courtyard of the ‘Park of the Sciences of Granada’, the pavilion was disassembled and the taken to be recycled!
See ArchDaily for more information and see more images here.
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