24 Oct Canstruction Boston 2013
October 2013
For the second year CUBE 3 Studio participates in Canstruction Boston, a design and build competition to construct a structure made entirely out of canned food.
The competition theme this year was “Movies & Cinema”. After pursuing several different design ideas, the Canstruction design team at CUBE 3 decided to stick with an iconic representation of the movies. They created “A Reel Meal”, a movie theater complete with a movie screen and seats.
The title of the piece derived from the added challenge of utilizing a variety of different canned foods in the construction in order to provide a “complete meal”.
The team invested considerable man hours preparing for “Build Out Day”, including design meetings, building computer models and even getting together on weekends to build the plywood foundation.
“Build Out Day” was on October 12, 2013 at the Boston Society of Architects, Atlantic Wharf, Boston. CUBE 3 was one of 26 teams participating in the event this year. The CUBE 3 team took six hours to build the “A Reel Meal” structure and used 3,340 cans of food.
Watch a time-lapse video of the building of “The Reel Meal”:
After the structures are built and the winners declared, the creations go on view to the general public as giant art exhibits. .
At the close of the competition, all of the food used in the structures is donated to the Merrimack Valley food bank, based out of Lowell, Massachusetts for distribution to community emergency feeding programs.
CUBE 3 Studio Canstruction Team:
From top left:
- Jason Skidgell
- Jacob Mercer
- Jonathan Lashley
- Justin Pelland
- Ben Scott, Team Captain
- Anthony DiFelice
- Michele Quinn
- Euginie Kwan
- John Harding
- Kelly Bushey (taking photo)
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