project overview
The Remains is a temporary community pavilion built entirely from discarded materials, food scraps, and donated textiles. Inspired by Coventry’s history of resilience and repair, the project transforms waste into a shared space for cooking, weaving, planting, and gathering, exploring how collective acts of care can create lasting memories from what is left behind.
project type
Community Design | Social Sustainability
year
2025
focus
sustainable design
The project reimagines waste as a catalyst for connection rather than a material to be discarded. Drawing from Coventry’s textile heritage, community food practices, and the fragmented altar cloth preserved in the Cathedral archives, the pavilion was designed as a space that evolves through participation. Scrap fabrics form the canopy, old tyres become seating, and reclaimed pallets create communal furniture, while workshops in cooking, weaving, dyeing, and planting invite visitors to actively shape the structure over time. Through these rituals of making and mending, the pavilion demonstrates how sustainability can be experienced as a social and emotional practice rather than a technical solution.
The Remains explores what happens when value is measured not by permanence, but by participation. Though the pavilion is temporary, its impact endures through shared meals, repaired garments, planted seeds, and collective memories, revealing that what remains is often not the object itself, but the relationships formed around it.
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