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If you walk onto a construction site with the META Design team, you’ll surely wonder: why pick up these things? The scrap welding rods, washers, rebar protection caps, rusted binding wires... These seemingly useless, scattered leftovers from the site become the starting point for creativity in the hands of META Design.
The hardest part of collecting materials from the construction site isn’t the weight or finding what we need—it’s earning the trust of the workers.
Even when using recycled materials, the design team META Design maintains the highest standards in craftsmanship.
When working with reclaimed materials from construction sites, one key question META Design faced was whether to preserve the visible marks of past use.
Since 2015, Farglory Land has been driving ESG work through FG Next, our in-house sustainability team built on the values of sustainability and sharing. For this project, we teamed up with our long-time partner META Design to bring the FGN brand philosophy to life through art.
After overcoming the technical challenge of bending the formwork, bringing the Formwork Chair to life still required a series of design and production steps. META Design began with a full-scale 1:1 layout drawing to define the chair’s proportions, structural layout, and joinery methods. Once the design was finalized, they used the prepared formwork wood to build the first prototype. By actually sitting on the chair, they could test whether the overall dimensions and ergonomics felt right—Was the backrest high enough to support the body? Was the seat angle comfortable?
Once dismantled and processed, the reclaimed formwork panels can be transformed into a wide variety of objects. But for our partner, META Design, simply reusing materials isn’t quite enough. As a team known for drawing out renewed value from discarded materials, they care more about one fundamental question: What message should the final piece convey? Only when the core concept is clarified does the team begin exploring how these recycled materials can be used to express it.
The construction waste we collected was brought back by our partner, META Design, to their studio in Tamsui. The studio functions like a laboratory, where discarded materials are examined from new perspectives. The designers uncover the hidden value within these materials and transform them into unique creations.
Since we opened our office for public tours, we've welcomed guests from many fields—hoping to plant seeds of sustainability that can grow into real change. Recently, we had the pleasure of hosting members of the “Circular Architecture Committee” from the Architectural Institute of Japan. The group included professors and students from leading architecture departments across Japan, who arranged a special visit to our Construction Waste Upcycling Project while in Taiwan for a conference.
On October 29, 2020, we visited a construction site in Guishan, Taoyuan, to begin our material collection journey. Upon arriving, we were led to the basement, where we were met with a "mountain of waste" piled high with discarded materials. Faced with this scene, we weren’t sure where to begin, concerned that we wouldn’t be able to find suitable materials.
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