'Pop Rocks: Soft Urban Boulder Field' Installation / Matthew Soules Architecture + AFJD Studio

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Covering a full city block in the center of downtown Vancouver, Canada, Pop Rocks is a temporary installation fabricated entirely from post-consumer and post-industrial waste from the metropolitan Vancouver region. A collaboration between Matthew Soules Architecture and AFJD Studio (Amber Frid-Jimenez & Joe Dahmen), the project engages tactically with these materials to produce soft forms that extend the typical range of active and passive social activities, fostering unexpected social encounters and new perspectives on the city. More images and architects’ description after the break.

To build the world anew from the messy softness of garbage necessitates a migration from the solidity of top-down form generation to a bottom-up formlessness; a new type of soft tactility and ambiguously flexible shapeliness replete with the tactile and ambient pleasures of the artificially biotic and vegetal: The garbage organic.

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Cite: Alison Furuto. "'Pop Rocks: Soft Urban Boulder Field' Installation / Matthew Soules Architecture + AFJD Studio" 13 Oct 2012. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/279536/pop-rocks-soft-urban-boulder-field-installation-matthew-soules-architecture-afjd-studio> ISSN 0719-8884

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