Artek, the world renowned Finnish furniture company, has asked me to design their pavilion for 'Salone del Internazionale Mobile'. The challenge for this pavilion was to use the new material ‘UPM ProFi’ invented by UPM. UPM ProFi is a wood-plastic composite.
The principle raw material for the wood-plastic composite is self-adhesive label materials made of paper and plastic, which is surplus from UPM Raflatac’s production.
I decided to use UPM ProFi as main structure of the Pavilion. According to the testing dates and the characteristic and dimension the ‘’L’’ profile we designed the truss structure.