Pop Can Corridor

Pop Can Corridor made use of partially recycled crushed aluminum cans that were compressed and bundled into rectilinear forms (25″ x 28″ x 42″) at the recycling plant, to serve as building blocks. Each bale weighed 300 to 400 lbs and contained approximately 250,000 crushed cans. There were 52 bales , 4,500 – 5,000 cans in each bale. These bundles were used to build two curvilinear walls creating a corridor through The DeLeon White Gallery in Toronto Canada. The interior of the corridor was comprised of two walls, one concave, one convex, contrapuntal to each other. The exterior lines created by these walls were reverse to the interior of the wall. As the visitor walked through this passage there was a point at which the viewer may have felt somewhat overwhelmed by the height and proximity of the structure, a sensation that dissipated as the height of the walls recedes back down to ground level. Whereas the exterior spaces provided a different sense of character and atmosphere; the concave exterior space created a niche in which people gathered while the convex exterior space was less intimate.