In today’s world, there are a lot of cool and most of the times, useful gadgets which you can find in all kinds of different stores.You can literally make anything you need by reusing old materials, for example to recycle wooden pallets and other items and craft them into something useful that would have otherwise costed you a whole lot of money in a store. Rome-based firm Beyond Architecture Group (BAG) has designed “experimental furniture” – dubbed Looking (C)up – for the Frammenti Music Festival at the Archaeological Park in Tusculum, Italy. The firm, known for building houses with bales of straw, chose to craft an astronomical observatory with wooden pallets. BAG designed an installation that carves out room to reflect on outer space: the night sky and stars. The observatory utilizes 120 disassembled wooden pallets, reusing each wood strip and nail. The team, led by Paolo Robazza of BAG, along with collaborating architects Cecilia Tognoni and Gilles Mascaro, stacked the wood slats in an irregularly overlapped fashion in the form of a circle. The result is a variegated assortment of cracks within the layered façade, piquing the interest of outsiders with flashing glimpses of the interior. Bright hammocks are strung through the inner space at different levels, inviting reflection through a collective experience.
