Social Reconnection.
Urban and Public Furniture Design
Taking over from my father twenty-two years ago in the family business, I learned immediately how to work PMMA (polymethylmethacrylate) right inside the precision machining workshop itself. Interested in Interior Design, I obtained in 2013 a utility patent of lighting decor accessories, which lead me to develop the passion for lighting design. With the physical characteristics of PMMA (polymethylmethacrylate) and its transparency qualities superior to glass, I created an innovative collection of light creations, individually designed and hand-crafted in the family workshop, obtaining the material from cast blocks of waste from local companies. The philosophical style of my design is manifested through the illusory game of full and empty enclosed in my energy saving LED lamps. The design and production know-how developed by me has allowed me to safeguard the purity of the cast PMMA used in each of my creations, in order to guarantee the recycling process. This process is characterized by a zero environmental impact, as it does not use polluting materials, it not produces polluting emissions (fumes, sewage or dust) and the material produced is absolutely non-toxic (also usable for food purposes) and perfectly recyclable. The polymerization, in fact, is reversible at high temperatures, thus making the waste 100% new raw material. Focusing on this principle of circular economy, I opened an innovative startup in 2019 that deals with the design of furnishing and fashion accessories, focusing on the use of PMMA exclusively recycled / regenerated (in turn recyclable / regenerable) and therefore currently limited to maximum thicknesses of 20 millimeters. However, the rapid technological evolution of recycling processes will soon make it possible to obtain ever greater thicknesses of recycled / regenerated material. Periodically updating myself with the two companies in Italy that today recycle PMMA industrial waste, I focused on the problem of the enormous amount of separation and protection barriers present in the world following the beginning of the pandemic, barriers that will be unused at the end of the sanitary emergency. For this reason I have designed a furniture collection for public environments created with the recycling of these future redundancies, through construction techniques themselves with zero environmental impact so that even the finished products are in turn recyclable. The collection includes a chair model in all bench variants (designed for places of cultural interest, but also for parks and squares), a model of led lamp in all indoor variants (designed for places of cultural interest), a model of luminous skirting in two led lighting variants (designed for hospitals and places of cultural interest), a modular furnishing model (designed for places of cultural interest). The thicknesses of the material obtained from recycling and of which the collection is composed are 10 mm for the modular furniture, 15 mm for the skirting and the chair, 20 mm for the lamp.