LISTENING PLACE, 2025
Contructed of 95 identical cardboard boxes this cardboard structure was constructed as a resonant chamber for my film and sound installation ‘Silent Conversations’ to provide an acoustically deadened space for listening and to act as a vessel for the sound to resonate throughout.

Arranged in an asymmetrical checkerboard pattern of semi-closed apertures the potential of the cardboard box as both a structural and expressive feature was explored to meet my criteria of using readily available, cost effective and fully recyclable materials, with the reversal of individual blocks increasing structural stability and wall depth. Doubling and the amount of bracing for the layer above. Through this approach I was also able to disperse the visual mass created by the boxes uniformity and reduce the visual footprint of the structural mass within the space and move away from the conventional presentation of cardboard as a transactional material.

With the temporary nature of this project in mind it was important for all materials to be sustainably produced and the structure simple to deconstruct, transport and, ultimately, recycle as component parts or a complete system. After taking the show down all of the component parts have been repurposed and reused.