Dezeen featured Buoy on 1 November; The New Raw provides the project details itself. According to the studio, discarded ropes from Rotterdam’s harbour are recycled and used for robotically 3D-printed public seating. The forms refer to the movement of maritime buoys.
The material’s short geographical journey is particularly appealing: a familiar urban waste stream becomes something for the same city. Its origin needn’t disappear behind a pristine new surface. Printed layers remind us that the object didn’t emerge from an abstract green promise.
Environmental responsibility doesn’t end at the photo shoot. We’d want to know how furniture like this is repaired, maintained and recycled after use. The neat circle in a presentation must eventually close in real life. Meanwhile, the rope has made an unusual career change: once it held a vessel in place; now it helps someone linger by the water.
