STUDENT
Ethan Bierlein
PROFESSOR
Cyrus Peñarroyo
This is a post office that receives and repurposes unwanted shoes and houseware resulting from e-commerce overconsumption. To intervene in waste, a disassembly of these goods allows for the recognition of their integration to become useful in activities of reassembly and restoration. With physical surroundings increasingly influenced by our digital habits, the project program was designed to provide space for the repurposing of shoes and houseware’s individual components. Similar to the disassembly of goods for repurposing, the same strategy is applied architecturally through the breakdown of existing walls to repurpose the rubble for new gabion walls. In addition to processing mail, this project will promote a culture of material reuse by offering transparent spaces of collaboration that invite people to engage with wasteful returns. Ultimately the post office looks to build a community around the reuse of their own consumption.