Recycled tyre rubber as symbol of state-of-the-art architecture

Rubber recycled from end-of-life tyres has become part of the international architectural state-of-the-art at Maxxi in Rome, with the winning installation of Yap 2016, the Young Architects Program, born to promote and support youth architecture, organized by Maxxi. This year’s winner is the Milan architectural collective Parasite 2.0, with the installation “Maxxi Temporary School: The museum is a school. A school is a battleground” created with the collaboration of Ecopneus. Over 300 end-of-life tyres, recycled in the form of rubber granules, were recovered to create it, and used to create the flooring and imaginative scenery. This setting will host, until October 28, the Roman events in the Maxxi museum piazza, reproducing a natural context that is now long gone as a tool for reflection and criticism of the most important topics of our times.