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Alongside products made partly or entirely from recycled tyre rubber, we also highlight rubber as a material in its own right. These examples explore fascinating creations made with other types of rubber, not specifically tyre rubber.

Both Gustav Winsth’s DIO shelf and Office S&M’s Janus House were created with other types of rubber — yet, as their creators note, each could be made from recycled tyre material.

Gustav Winsth

Gustav Winsth, a freelance designer based in Stockholm, is renowned for his exploration of contemporary aesthetics, often through the lens of radical design. His possessions have consistently undergone customisation. Gustav studied at the Beckmans College of Design in Stockholm. For his examination project, he created the “DIO” shelf, which resulted from an exploration of sneaker aesthetics, focusing on shapes, materials, and the underlying subcultures that form their foundation. The “DIO” shelf departs from contemporary minimalism, establishing a radically modern expression through the geometric shapes of its legs. These legs are crafted from recycled rubber granulate, while the rest of the shelf is made from anodised aluminium. Although the rubber granulate Gustav used is not derived from recycled tyre rubber, his creation can be made using granulate sourced from recycled tyre material.

Office S&M

Office S&M is a London based architecture practice founded by Catrina Stewart and Hugh McEwen in 2013. The practice designs building works on a variety of housing and “bespoke solutions for its clients, to create projects that celebrate the colour, materiality, and narratives of the everyday use of these new spaces”. The client approached Office S&M to replace a “poorly built lean-to behind their terraced house” with a new extension which clearly distinguish from the late 1800’s property – but still being related in scale to it. (Press Release, 2018).

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