Rotomoulded furniture is designed to conserve energy and materials.

Web surfing on the internet like I usually do, I came across a designer named Rodrigo Alonso Schramm. He used plastic waste obtained from electronic devices, toys, drink trays, stadium seats, etc - to make furniture. His rotomoulded technique of recycling is really unique, in that it can be re-crushed and re-rotomoulded to form a new object.

This concept was designed for a company called Fahneu, an urban equipment company in Santiago de Chile. The innovative approach allows for dynamic forms and eye catchy color tones.

Take a look at Rodrigo's intentions of the rotomoulded process and outcome.

An important factor to determine the technical feasibility, speed and optimization of the financial and material resources is also the world of production. For this, the moulds were designed to use less energy, materials and eventual costs, coupled with ease of its construction.

We worked at the time of designing of the moulds with the concept of building volumes with flat faces only. That is, irregular polygons forming a three dimensional structure. This was made possible by straight cuts made in a sphere with flat surfaces. Result: an irregular polyhedron built with irregular polygons. Almost like the image of our ancestors sculpting an arrowhead with another stone. (Rodrigo Alonso Schramm)

Well Rodrigo, we here at Greenopolis appreciate what you do to recycle and reuse - so I made you a custom graphic to go along with your article.

Learn more at:
www.rodrigoalonso.cl

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