Banner Facade
Poland’s commercial advertising infrastructure generates continuous flows of post-consumer promotional textiles, large-format banners engineered for exterior exposure yet designed for brief deployment cycles. This yields architectural-scale membranes with embedded specifications: UV-stabilized polymers, reinforced seaming, weatherproofed edge systems.
Wrapping a vacant urban structure, discarded banners transitioned from informational surface to pneumatically animated facade. Mechanized air pumps orchestrated rhythmic inflation cycles, transforming static membranes into breathing architectural skin through controlled pressurization.
The intervention exemplifies function-shifting through material listening: allowing waste streams’ inherent characteristics, existing scale, structural reinforcements, environmental durability, to determine architectural possibility, mapping pathways from commercial obsolescence to temporary urbanism through minimal mechanical augmentation.
