NYC’s City of Dreams Pavilion 2017 to be made from recycled aluminium cans

The Winning design team is set to construct the City of Dreams Pavilion from recycled aluminium cans for an annual arts festival  on Governors Island in New York City for the 2017 summer season. The pavilion will be constructed using 300,000 aluminium cans.

The Winning Design team will get aluminium cans from New Yorkers.  The team will also purchase 100,000 aluminium cans from Sure We Can, a Brooklyn non-profit that provides support for canners.

The team has received $3,000 for this project and hoping to raise more. The Pavilion will be made entirely from waste. The City of Dreams Pavilion aims to “promote sustainability-oriented thinking amidst the architecture and design communities.”

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The aluminium recycled cans will be melted and cast into cracked clays so that the cracked will create a pattern for building the pavilion. Once the festival gets over the aluminium panels will be recycled into decorative objects.

Every year a jury selects a team to design and build a pavilion on Governors Island. This year, Team Aesop in collaboration between several designers and engineers will construct the City of Dreams Pavilion Competition: Cast & Place.