drywall collection recasts industrial waste as chairs, lighting and sculptural vases

Reframing Metal Drywall Guides as Primary Design Material

Drywall Collection is a design series that reconsiders a conventional construction system through a set of architectural objects. The collection comprises seating, lighting, and sculptural elements developed through repetition, modularity, and material consistency. By working with standardized components, the project examines how structural logic can inform form, allowing typically concealed systems to become spatial and perceptible.

Designed by Claudio Larcher and Sofia D’Andrea, the collection is based on metal drywall guides, technical profiles usually embedded within partition walls and left unseen. These industrial elements are extracted from their conventional context and reconfigured into objects with a linear and uniform architectural language. The project positions these components not as secondary infrastructure, but as primary design material, foregrounding their formal and structural qualities.

creative reuse and reinterpretation of industrial materials

Through modular composition and precise alterations to the studs’ cross-sections, achieved via bending and cutting techniques, the standard drywall profile is transformed into elements capable of generating volume, surface articulation, and three-dimensional form. Reflective properties and spatial depth emerge from these controlled modifications, extending the functional logic of the material into a design-driven application.

Designers Claudio Larcher and Sofia D’Andrea’s Drywall Collection also addresses the reuse and reinterpretation of industrial materials, highlighting the latent aesthetic potential of components commonly associated with construction waste or hidden assembly. By maintaining the material’s original identity while altering its spatial role, the project proposes an alternative approach to material value, one grounded in process, repetition, and architectural clarity.

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project info:

name: Drywall Collection
designer: Claudio Larcher | @claudiolarcher_design, Sofia D’Andrea | @sofi.ddi

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