Plastic bottle roof shade26. Jul2011
South African designer Heath Nash was invited to produce a public light installation with local Zimbabwean / Hararean artisans as part of the 2011 HIFA Performing Arts Festival. Instead, he decided to build a number of structures to provide shade for people in public spaces in and around Harare using the scrap metal and wood, plastic bottles and cans found in the Harare market.
He demostrated how structures can be build if you acquire the right waste materials and using local resources combined with local craft traditions. The result is not only a colorful and vibrant installation but also a functional one.
via Designboom
Wowen aluminium from cans. 
Assemblage of the raw parts. 
Roof structure and raw material put together. 
The final result. 
Found metal and wood parts are used as structural components. 
Roofs in different colors and patterns. 
Here is Heath Nash with some of the artisans. Heath Nash "loves to make things" as he states in his credo. He studied fine art at the University of Cape Town, majoring in sculpture in 1999. Somewhere in 2004 he met Richard Mandongwe who was selling incredible flowers made from old plastic bottles and wire. And the inspiration for producing new objects from used objects - "other people's rubbish" as he likes to call it - started immediately. They started to work together on incorporating plastic into his wire designs.'It was intended as a possible form of future upliftment for a country in desperate need of employment opportunities, and as a way to promote the idea of recycling to a very unaware South African public.' - Heath Nash
See more information on the Heath Nash site.
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