BENCORE PRESENTS WASBOTTLE: THE NEW 100% RECYCLED AND RECYCLABLE MATERIAL DESIGNED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH AUTOGRILL
From the project developed by Bencore with Autogrill, the first operator in the world in catering services for travelers, comes a key material in the current idea of circular economy: Wasbottle in fact is obtained from recycled and recyclable plastic flakes.
The collaboration between Bencore and Autogrill focuses on the recycling and reuse of plastics at the end of their life. The Autogrill Group has undertaken for several years a path linked to circular economy with the aim of minimizing the environmental impact of its business, thanks also to its ethics of reuse and the reduction of waste. The result of this collaboration marks for Bencore, always keen on sustainability issues projected in the field of architecture and interior design, an important result and an even greater alignment between its production and the needs of the community of architects and designers who are increasingly oriented to the use of materials with very low environmental impact.
Bencore with Wasbottle creates new innovative ideas which are perfectly suitable for all those design professionals who have an authentically ‘green’ soul. What is more, for its innovation content Wasbottle has been selected for the ADI Design Index 2021, the best Italian designs that completes the pre-selection for the next “Compasso d’Oro”, one of the most authoritative world
design awards.
What are the characteristics of Wasbottle?
Wasbottle is a material with a high index of compactness and workability, with a low coefficient of fiction, and It is also non-hygroscopic and chemical and shock resistant. For these peculiarities it is widely used in the creation of furniture components, such as tables, shelves, tops, partition elements and opaque coatings.
Considered these characteristics, Wasbottle can be easily subjected to machining such as milling and drilling: it is possible to finish it with screwed components and when it has a thickness of 20 mm it can be inserted inside the Bencore door/wall systems. Two standard sizes of 1200×1200 mm and 1000×2000 mm have been designed for Wasbottle panels, while three are the thicknesses: 8, 12 and 20 mm.
Wasbottle variants: standard production and one-off production
For Wasbottle standard production, Bencore offers two variants:
1) Wasbottle Paint: 100% recycled and recyclable HDPE. An original texture that recalls the pictorial technique of pointillism or dripping, evoking the great art of Pollock or Kandisky.
2) Wasbottle Sky: 100% recycled and recyclable PETG. Blue as the sky when it is bright clear. An obvious recall to nature. As it concerns one-off production in limited edition, again there are two variants:
3) Wasbottle One-Off: Peach, 100% recycled and recyclable PETG. The prevalence of the peach color comes from the mix of pink and orange both present in the texture of the material itself.
4) Wasbottle One-Off: Magma, 100% recycled and recyclable PETG. Dark and intense like volcanic magma, this texture is also crossed by the most vibrant shades of lava when it is incandescent.
The launch event of Wasbottle at Motel D, the new “Creative Members Club” in the center of
Milan.
To present the new variants of Wasbottle, Bencore has chosen Motel D, a new “Creative Members Club” of more than 700sqm in the heart of Milan designed to promote synergies and collaborations between culture and design professionals, startups and companies related to sustainability. The Club in fact encourages all members to collaborate by including a circular
approach in their professional practice as well as in their daily lives and the spaces themselves reflect this philosophy: located in Viale Caldara 11/13, Motel D is a former dismissed industrial space.
Next events: Wasbottle at 2022 Fuorisalone with an installation by Architect Italo Rota.
Bencore will participate at the next Fuorisalone from June 6 to 12 at “Ordine degli Architetti” in Milan and it will present the installation “Table de Pierre”.
Conceived and designed by the internationally renowned architect Italo Rota using entirely the Wasbottle material in its variants Paint and Magma, “Table de Pierre” is a pure and 100% sustainable project because it does not contain pastes or glues. Rather, it was chosen to use the “dovetail” interlocking system, an ancient technique, recovered to give solidity to the structure and to become a motif of ornamental impact.
The concept behind the creation of “Table de Pierre” has a threefold interpretation:
1) Pierre as the master Pierre Chareau from which the design idea of Arch. Rota is inspired.
2) Pierre as a stone, a reinterpretation of recycled plastic that becomes the new milestone on which to build the architecture and design of the future within circular economy.
3) Pierre as an acronym of “Public Relation” (PR) as the emblem of a message of recovery and recycle, speaking directly to the public through its form and its material without the use of intermediaries.
Italo Rota chose Bencore because His architectural and design work aligns with the company’s values and has been focusing for over thirty years on a constant and advanced cross-disciplinary research, from contemporary art to robotics, for the definition of innovative projects where humanistic beauty and sustainability become integrated and disruptive elements. The Architect counts among his most important works the renovation of the Museum of Modern Art at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Museum of the twentieth century in Piazza Duomo in Milan, the headquarters of the Columbia University in New York, the Hindu Temple in Dolvy in India and the Italian Pavilion for the EXPO Dubai 2020.
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