good afternoon everyone it’s a honor for
me to be in such a well-organized place
I would like to tell you a little bit
about the times we are living in which
in my opinion are very interesting times
well we are living in a constant change
as it was described by philosopher and
sociologist professor zygmunt bauman
we are living in the era of fluent
modernity which means that all the time
things are changing around us and we are
less and less tied to the ground to the
place as the utopias described by Thomas
More was connected with tapas with the
place these days the tapas doesn’t exist
anymore in a physical meaning actually
we are more connected to the
international organizations or companies
than to our homeland next to it we can
consider our chapters of life and then
we might say that every 20 years our
special needs changes first we grow up
then we start our family then our kids
are living home so each time those needs
are changing those thoughts are quite
well depicted by the statistics provided
by Eurostat which shows that in 2010
there were 5.1 million people who
migrated into one or from one of the EU
countries in 2013 they were already 6.2
million in 2016 this number reached 7.3
million that means that the society are
more and more in motion we are becoming
amnion nomads which means that
physically by changing the place
mentally by adapting to new places but
also digitally by living in our digital
world as social media we are literary
and nomads next to that there is a huge
need for those people who lost
houses there are 60 5.6 million people
who were forced to leave their places
their houses there are almost 2 million
people in osed
so developed developed countries who are
homeless and mass amount 1.6 billion
people who lives in non in housing
without adequate standards so
substandards to answer for those issues
or problems we might think about new
structural systems and the new materials
which can be cheap easy to get but which
can be also recycled reused a reset
after they are used one of such a
material is paper but actually what is
paper you might ask if we look closer at
it we can compare it to the portion of
spaghetti referring to my previous
speaker which is pulled on the plate and
let dry so the connection between the
fiber they create the hydrogen bonds
which means that the material gathers
its strength first
producers of paper were Hornets and bees
they produce their shelters their nests
this is actually the picture which is
covered on my PhD book about paper in
architecture because I think it shows
everything a structure paper which is
built on the edge of cardboard box but
actually human who invented paper was so
long in 105 and he showed it to the
emperor on China and then the idea of
paper production was spread around the
world so some places like Japan they
still produce paper in very traditional
way with the hand sieve but there are
also huge factories they produce like 40
thousand tons of cargo paper a day but
paper still the same natural material
natural fiber fibrous material that is
created by the mainly cellulose for
however when we think about paper in
architecture obviously first thought
goes to forest and we think about Japan
and Japanese architecture so beautiful
food suma panels which are painted or
Shoji panels which are those which let
the light go through and when we think
about contemporary architecture out of
paper we rather have quite wrong
connotation with it but in fact paper
can fall in five categories it can be a
design and interior design temporary
event venues such as exhibitions housing
even public buildings and of course
emergency houses there are four main
products which are mass-produced by
paper industry which can be used and
implemented in architecture these are
honeycombed panels
paper tubes corrugated cardboard and L
shapes and the U shapes those elements
are using different configurations and I
would like to show you several examples
how we applied how we use those
mass-produced
elements so cheap and pro ecological
elements in different scopes in
different scales talking about furniture
we created several attempts several
chairs and the tables which which were
exposed in the Museum of Modern Art in
Rostov so we had there some sofas some
rocking chair Archer table chair even a
little lamp which we called MCT modern
Christmas tree the idea was that instead
of cutting the tree from the woods you
can buy such a lamp and you can place it
in your house during the Christmas and
then easily recycled afterwards you can
also create our smaller things we also
tried a little bit bigger structures
such as
reception desk or even the interior part
of the Museum of Modern Art in Rostov or
the last part you see on the right is
like a work and role mechanism we did it
with our students at the University in
Rostov that by changing the position you
can use it in different ways then we
have the exhibition pavilions small
pavilion called paper cave which from
the outside is kind of a box but if you
go inside you have this feeling that you
really get into the cave where five
products of innovative in paper industry
where exhibit and then going to the
outside going going to the exterior we
created paper pavilion for the 70th
anniversary of roots of University of
Science and Technology which was
composed it was a mix structure of wood
and paper tubes when the paper tubes
arrived some of our students immediately
fall in love with the material with the
help of our of our sponsor we created we
did the test the structural tests and
then six components with an arches with
and the tubes connected with them were
prefabricated and then they were
transferred to the city center of
beautiful city of broad swath then the
pavilion was exposed there and inside of
the pavilion we showed the 17th he 70
year history of brasov university on the
lower level there were special place for
the kids on the upper level a little bit
more serious information for the adults
let’s say if there is anything like
adult actually but the pavilion has the
most appealing wasn’t the most beautiful
during the night when all of 496 paper
tubes were ignited with the LED light
each could change differently in time so
it was really like a meeting spot in the
meeting City the the
lovely view was when we see the couples
coming they’re kissing hugging which
meant that the thing worked later on how
we did over doesn’t prototypes at the
University of Technology in Delft within
the buckle up course checking different
types of materials different structural
systems different connections and
finally the the last project which got
the first price within the European
Capital of Culture was a house of cards
house of cards is a unit a housing unit
which was primarily designed for the
refugees coming to Europe there was like
a huge influence in 2015/16 and then we
decided to propose different
arrangements there were two main units
by arranging them differently we could
achieve for example a culture house for
free families or the row houses for
eight people or twelve people also with
the bigger scale that could be
development for 50 people or even for
500 people more rigid in a kind of a
Rome camp structure everything was
prefabricated so the idea was that we
sent the wooden floor and the cardboard
elements cardboard frame structure and
wool and roof panels to the place and
they are quite easily combined together
and then we start to produce the first
the the frame structure was connected
with the wooden elements and that was
actually all they would be used which
was I would say less than 20% of the
whole structure and then the house of
cart was exposed again in the main
square and people when they first
thought about paper house of course they
didn’t believe but when they came in
when they knocked to the walls they
tried they touch it they started to gain
some trust into the material
so summarizing if you think about paper
in architecture paper as a main building
material for design and architecture it
has both pros and cons obviously it’s
cheap and easy to get material is
recyclable and recycled it has very good
thermal properties however it exists in
I mean it can be used in a short spans
because of the properties of the
material it’s the the water and moist
cows dangerous because it can suck the
water from the from the outer so this is
the biggest threat for the material and
doesn’t it doesn’t exist in the building
codes maybe in Japan in England and the
Netherlands are only countries where the
permanent paper buildings were built but
in my opinion the biggest threat is the
the limited trust of the users so if you
know perhaps the story tale about Three
Little Pigs if there will be a fourth
one her house would be made out of paper
I guess so I would like to convince you
to to open your eyes and try things
which at the beginning are not seems to
be realistic like using paper in
architecture to opposite stuff but yeah
it’s possible and actually it’s real
thank you very much [Applause]
me to be in such a well-organized place
I would like to tell you a little bit
about the times we are living in which
in my opinion are very interesting times
well we are living in a constant change
as it was described by philosopher and
sociologist professor zygmunt bauman
we are living in the era of fluent
modernity which means that all the time
things are changing around us and we are
less and less tied to the ground to the
place as the utopias described by Thomas
More was connected with tapas with the
place these days the tapas doesn’t exist
anymore in a physical meaning actually
we are more connected to the
international organizations or companies
than to our homeland next to it we can
consider our chapters of life and then
we might say that every 20 years our
special needs changes first we grow up
then we start our family then our kids
are living home so each time those needs
are changing those thoughts are quite
well depicted by the statistics provided
by Eurostat which shows that in 2010
there were 5.1 million people who
migrated into one or from one of the EU
countries in 2013 they were already 6.2
million in 2016 this number reached 7.3
million that means that the society are
more and more in motion we are becoming
amnion nomads which means that
physically by changing the place
mentally by adapting to new places but
also digitally by living in our digital
world as social media we are literary
and nomads next to that there is a huge
need for those people who lost
houses there are 60 5.6 million people
who were forced to leave their places
their houses there are almost 2 million
people in osed
so developed developed countries who are
homeless and mass amount 1.6 billion
people who lives in non in housing
without adequate standards so
substandards to answer for those issues
or problems we might think about new
structural systems and the new materials
which can be cheap easy to get but which
can be also recycled reused a reset
after they are used one of such a
material is paper but actually what is
paper you might ask if we look closer at
it we can compare it to the portion of
spaghetti referring to my previous
speaker which is pulled on the plate and
let dry so the connection between the
fiber they create the hydrogen bonds
which means that the material gathers
its strength first
producers of paper were Hornets and bees
they produce their shelters their nests
this is actually the picture which is
covered on my PhD book about paper in
architecture because I think it shows
everything a structure paper which is
built on the edge of cardboard box but
actually human who invented paper was so
long in 105 and he showed it to the
emperor on China and then the idea of
paper production was spread around the
world so some places like Japan they
still produce paper in very traditional
way with the hand sieve but there are
also huge factories they produce like 40
thousand tons of cargo paper a day but
paper still the same natural material
natural fiber fibrous material that is
created by the mainly cellulose for
however when we think about paper in
architecture obviously first thought
goes to forest and we think about Japan
and Japanese architecture so beautiful
food suma panels which are painted or
Shoji panels which are those which let
the light go through and when we think
about contemporary architecture out of
paper we rather have quite wrong
connotation with it but in fact paper
can fall in five categories it can be a
design and interior design temporary
event venues such as exhibitions housing
even public buildings and of course
emergency houses there are four main
products which are mass-produced by
paper industry which can be used and
implemented in architecture these are
honeycombed panels
paper tubes corrugated cardboard and L
shapes and the U shapes those elements
are using different configurations and I
would like to show you several examples
how we applied how we use those
mass-produced
elements so cheap and pro ecological
elements in different scopes in
different scales talking about furniture
we created several attempts several
chairs and the tables which which were
exposed in the Museum of Modern Art in
Rostov so we had there some sofas some
rocking chair Archer table chair even a
little lamp which we called MCT modern
Christmas tree the idea was that instead
of cutting the tree from the woods you
can buy such a lamp and you can place it
in your house during the Christmas and
then easily recycled afterwards you can
also create our smaller things we also
tried a little bit bigger structures
such as
reception desk or even the interior part
of the Museum of Modern Art in Rostov or
the last part you see on the right is
like a work and role mechanism we did it
with our students at the University in
Rostov that by changing the position you
can use it in different ways then we
have the exhibition pavilions small
pavilion called paper cave which from
the outside is kind of a box but if you
go inside you have this feeling that you
really get into the cave where five
products of innovative in paper industry
where exhibit and then going to the
outside going going to the exterior we
created paper pavilion for the 70th
anniversary of roots of University of
Science and Technology which was
composed it was a mix structure of wood
and paper tubes when the paper tubes
arrived some of our students immediately
fall in love with the material with the
help of our of our sponsor we created we
did the test the structural tests and
then six components with an arches with
and the tubes connected with them were
prefabricated and then they were
transferred to the city center of
beautiful city of broad swath then the
pavilion was exposed there and inside of
the pavilion we showed the 17th he 70
year history of brasov university on the
lower level there were special place for
the kids on the upper level a little bit
more serious information for the adults
let’s say if there is anything like
adult actually but the pavilion has the
most appealing wasn’t the most beautiful
during the night when all of 496 paper
tubes were ignited with the LED light
each could change differently in time so
it was really like a meeting spot in the
meeting City the the
lovely view was when we see the couples
coming they’re kissing hugging which
meant that the thing worked later on how
we did over doesn’t prototypes at the
University of Technology in Delft within
the buckle up course checking different
types of materials different structural
systems different connections and
finally the the last project which got
the first price within the European
Capital of Culture was a house of cards
house of cards is a unit a housing unit
which was primarily designed for the
refugees coming to Europe there was like
a huge influence in 2015/16 and then we
decided to propose different
arrangements there were two main units
by arranging them differently we could
achieve for example a culture house for
free families or the row houses for
eight people or twelve people also with
the bigger scale that could be
development for 50 people or even for
500 people more rigid in a kind of a
Rome camp structure everything was
prefabricated so the idea was that we
sent the wooden floor and the cardboard
elements cardboard frame structure and
wool and roof panels to the place and
they are quite easily combined together
and then we start to produce the first
the the frame structure was connected
with the wooden elements and that was
actually all they would be used which
was I would say less than 20% of the
whole structure and then the house of
cart was exposed again in the main
square and people when they first
thought about paper house of course they
didn’t believe but when they came in
when they knocked to the walls they
tried they touch it they started to gain
some trust into the material
so summarizing if you think about paper
in architecture paper as a main building
material for design and architecture it
has both pros and cons obviously it’s
cheap and easy to get material is
recyclable and recycled it has very good
thermal properties however it exists in
I mean it can be used in a short spans
because of the properties of the
material it’s the the water and moist
cows dangerous because it can suck the
water from the from the outer so this is
the biggest threat for the material and
doesn’t it doesn’t exist in the building
codes maybe in Japan in England and the
Netherlands are only countries where the
permanent paper buildings were built but
in my opinion the biggest threat is the
the limited trust of the users so if you
know perhaps the story tale about Three
Little Pigs if there will be a fourth
one her house would be made out of paper
I guess so I would like to convince you
to to open your eyes and try things
which at the beginning are not seems to
be realistic like using paper in
architecture to opposite stuff but yeah
it’s possible and actually it’s real
thank you very much [Applause]
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