Inventory

2018

PlayThings, Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum,Milwaukee, WI. Curated by Jasmine Benyamin, Nikole Bouchard, Whitney Moon, Kyle Reynolds, and Mo Zell.

Exhibition

The demolition site presents a compelling metaphor for twentieth-century systems of creative destruction. Every year, over 500 million tons of construction and demolition debris is generated in the United States, of which up to 80% consists of concrete rubble. Inventory proposes an opportunist intervention that re-imagines the architectural pavilion as a physical inventory system—a curb-side recycling center that translates the collecting, sorting and storage practices of a mid-sized demolition site into a temporary ruinscape. By reframing the demolition process as a public spectacle, the project serves the dual function of a material stockyard and a fleeting civic archive in which concrete fragments are cataloged, stored and displayed. At the end of the pavilion’s life cycle, the materials are released from a ready-made scaffolding system and returned back into circulation to nearby salvage yards and recycling facilities.

Project Team: Jack Corriveau

Photography: Kevin Miyazaki