Euroshop // Duesseldorf // Germany // Projektpiloten GmbH
‘PROJEKTPILOT GmbH wanted to represent themselves with the intelligent implementation of an unusual design idea and to prove their realisation skills.
A simple idea became a highly complicated task. In the end, 8,140 cardboard tubes with a total length of 10 kilometres and a weight of over 18 tons were stacked to form a single wall.
A special idea also requires special implementation.
In order to give the almost 17m long and 4.20m high wall its three-dimensional shape, the length of every one of the 8,140 cardboard tubes had to be individually calculated and determined.
The shape was simulated on the computer and the wall divided into five layers, which in turn form various blocks. For each block, the length of every single tubes was determined.
Each cardboard tube was cut to size to an individual measurement between one metre and 2.65 m.
In the run-up, the tubes were stuck together into blocks using a special adhesive. Due to the building-block-like division of the blocks, the tubes could be quickly stacked up on each other during the setting-up phase of the fair.
The cardboard tubes should at the same time also transport the graphic, by acting as a carrier for it. Detailed information could thus be obtained from the large structure.
In order to ensure that the 4.20m high wall of paper tubes is really straight, it must be built on a base that must be made precisely level.
Finally, short tubes were glued under the first row of cardboard, making sure that the base is not visible and that the entire wall construction seems to be ‘floating’.
Cardboard tubes were looked for that, together with the prints coated onto them and a laminate, fitted exactly into the tubes of the wall construction. A counterpiece, which was fixed in the large construction, ensures that the graphic tubes cannot disappear completely in the wall. A cord within the tubes determines how far one can pull the tubes out of the wall.
The cardboard tubes should at the same time also transport the graphic, by acting as a carrier for it. Detailed information could thus be obtained from the large structure.
for that, together with the prints coated onto them and a laminate, fitted exactly into the tubes of the wall construction. A counterpiece, which was fixed in the large construction, ensures that the graphic tubes cannot disappear completely in the wall. A cord within the tubes determines how far one can pull the tubes out of the wall.’
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