Raising the Bar

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In recent years, the use of recycled materials and products have been the catalyst for new and innovative designs. For architects, the challenge is to demonstrate how this thinking can generate sustainable design in the built world.

Raising the Bar challenges architects to use recycled materials to design components of a working licensed bar. The exhibition will feature 10 architects, each using 10 different types of recycled materials (either hard rubbish finds, found objects or the reuse of existing materials). The architects will work collaboratively, with the overall aim of producing, with minimal financial outlay, functional components such as seating, foot stools, serving counters, lighting and weather protection.

The constructed bar which will focus on re-use and recycling and will be exhibited during the State of Design Festival as a destination for architects and the public to meet and socialise.

Presented by Australian Institute of Architects Victorian Chapter