Cardboard seems to be the hottest new sustainable material, and designers like Sander Architecten are using it in all kinds of interesting projects. We recently featured a cool cardboard pavilion that children love, as well as the Serpentine Gallery; now we bring you the Rabobank Headquarters in the Netherlands, a 25 storey office building decked out in immaculately-crafted Washi paper and paperboard that delights the senses. Skylights give the building's partitioning a pleasant visual sheen, and the design enhances the positive emotional environment as well.
Here there is no technology to shape the carton thereby.
Intelligent power slim columns for the idea that the roof is floating. dining tables in the cardboard stand the weight, but in the kitchen no structural function runs.
What an inspiring project. Are the images taken from the top floor? Do the skylights have a connection to lower floors or just to the top floor? The shapes of the cardboard seem to provide strong support, and provide an interactive way to transverse the space.