3-ply facemasks and everyday discarded plastics make up this turntable dome in new jersey

SLO ARCHITECTURE TRANSFORMED DISCARDED EVERYDAY PLASTICS INTO TURNTABLE, A ROTATING PUBLIC INSTALLATION, AND A TRANSCENDENT COMMON SPACE FOR REFLECTION IN CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY. the piece

features an outer skin made from thousands of two-liter soda bottles and an interior dome fashioned from 3-ply polypropylene facemasks. all images courtesy of SLO architecture SLO

ARCHITECTURE’S AIM WAS TO CREATE A PIECE THAT RECONSIDERS CAMDEN NJ’S LOST HISTORY TO TRANSCEND THE CITY’S CURRENT PROBLEMS WITH ILLEGAL DUMPING AND TO FORM A SPACE TO ENVISION THE CYCLES OF

CAMDEN’S HISTORY AND POTENTIAL ENERGY AHEAD. with turntable, the discarded is unearthed and reconsidered. at coopers poynt park, a wind-powered beacon becomes a shoreline focal point. using

wind energy captured by thousands of cut two-liter soda bottles, a cylinder spins above a ring of scaffolding. INSIDE, A LIGHTWEIGHT DOME OF DISCARDED 3-PLY POLYPROPYLENE FACEMASKS WITH AN

OCULUS OPEN TO SKY, FORMS A SPACE TO CONTEMPLATE OUR COMING TOGETHER AFTER A YEAR OF COVID. turntable is part of a new view, which will transform six highly visible spaces along camden’s

public transportation corridors from eyesores used for illegal dumping into multi-purpose community forums. these converted spaces will host dynamic temporary art installations and creative

programming that will provide a new view to the more than 65,000 people who travel through camden daily and its 77,000 residents. [embedded content] [embedded content] PROJECT INFO: NAME:

turntable ARCHITECTS: amanda schachter & alexander levi | SLO architecture LOCATION: coopers poynt waterfront park, camden, NJ _designboom has received this project from our ‘__DIY

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