AME-LOT Wooden Pallet Building by Malka Architecture

AME-LOT is a project created by Malka Architecture who wanted the whole process to be nature friendly.

He aimed at minimizing excess materials and utilizing them more efficiently to reduce carbon footprint. The project is destined for rue Amelot in Paris.

The skin consists of an existing module: the wooden pallet. Held using horizontal hinges, the pallets contract towards the top, allowing privacy or large openings. The modularity of the various palettes creates varied geometries, which are based on use and constantly regenerated. The reappropriation of materials recycles the existing without additional processing, which would cost energy in terms of production and create byproduct pollution.

The real environmental approach consists not in destruction, but in superimposing interventions upon our built heritage. It consists of a new land strategy, unreferenced on a parcel, constructed in a de facto “ecology” of means.