2024-12-22T07:55:21-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150156743/pavilion-made-from-repurposed-ikea-mattresses-wins-chart-s-first-prize Sean Joyner 2019-09-04T14:10:00-04:00 >2024-10-25T04:07:38-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/01/01b6497203d6d468611da2564cc27c6f.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>This year's first prize for the <a href="https://chartartfair.com/exhibitions/architecture/" target="_blank">CHART Art Fair</a>, a 72-hour competition inviting young designers working in the Nordic region to explore the crossovers between art, design, and architecture by creating temporary pavilions, went to <em>Sultan</em>, a project that utilizes discarded IKEA mattresses as its base materials. Everything from the wood, internal components, foam, metal, and fabric is used to construct the innovative pavilion.</p> <p>"The SULTAN project was a clear winner both because it is conceptually very strong and because its fabrication is very precise," said David Zahle from BIG, the chairperson of the competition jury. "Sultan raises a very important concern about how hard it is to recycle things in a modern society, because of the complexity of the society we&rsquo;ve come to live in," he continued.</p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/1f/1f27d7ef80fca7c788f3939b682a30e6.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/1f/1f27d7ef80fca7c788f3939b682a30e6.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Sultan pavilion. Photo: Joakim Z&uuml;ger</figcaption></figure><p>The project was developed by&nbsp;Anne Bea H&oslash;gh Mikkelsen, Katrine Kretzschmar Nielsen, Klara Lysh&oslash;j, and Josefine &Oslash;stergaard Kallehave. An international jury was ...</p>