© Amelyn Ng 2024
Cast On Set
exhibition installation proposal
YEAR:
2024
TYPE:
Installation proposal, unbuilt
DESIGN TEAM:
Amelyn Ng, Gabriel Vergara, Christine Giorgio (Friends Making Work).
INFO:
Los Angeles is a city of scenography and set construction, where myriad film environments are produced daily using one-sided lightweight stud walls. Known as flats, these plywood-clad, stage-braced wood frames are rented, reused, and customized as architectural backdrops over and over again. CAST ON SET proposes to take unrentable film set flats at the end of their usable life, and reuse them as formwork to create a lightweight, cast-in-place hempcrete environment.
The installation proposes to frame space using a series of cast hempcrete wall-chunks of varying thickness. Recycled flats are used as formwork in the process of casting, with some panels left in place as reinforcement; traces of back-of-house support. Hempcrete, a biocomposite material made from woody hemp and lime, is positioned as a sustainable renewable alternative to that old carbon form of modernity — concrete — which has long dominated much of Los Angeles’ infrastructure.
2024
TYPE:
Installation proposal, unbuilt
DESIGN TEAM:
Amelyn Ng, Gabriel Vergara, Christine Giorgio (Friends Making Work).
INFO:
Los Angeles is a city of scenography and set construction, where myriad film environments are produced daily using one-sided lightweight stud walls. Known as flats, these plywood-clad, stage-braced wood frames are rented, reused, and customized as architectural backdrops over and over again. CAST ON SET proposes to take unrentable film set flats at the end of their usable life, and reuse them as formwork to create a lightweight, cast-in-place hempcrete environment.
The installation proposes to frame space using a series of cast hempcrete wall-chunks of varying thickness. Recycled flats are used as formwork in the process of casting, with some panels left in place as reinforcement; traces of back-of-house support. Hempcrete, a biocomposite material made from woody hemp and lime, is positioned as a sustainable renewable alternative to that old carbon form of modernity — concrete — which has long dominated much of Los Angeles’ infrastructure.
