Seeing Red: The BIOS Keg-Cup Canopy
Katherine Sharpe
As some of you know, I have a thing about plastic, so I couldn't help but notice this item. The three-designer team of Jess Austin, Chris Chalmers and Charles Lee, who work together as the San Francisco-based BIOS Design Colletive, put together a temporary pavilion made of 2,000 (used) plastic keg cups.Volunteers put the pavilion together with laser-cut polypropylene clips that attached the cups to a mesh of steel cables, according to the rules of a simple "game" the designers had invented. The installation was part of the AIASF's Architecture in the City Festival.
I can't help but wonder whether the cups rustle pleasantly in the breeze. Plenty more pics at the BIOS Flickr page.
