Unified Peaks joins The Heke via SOTG

The Heke team is jumping up and down with excitement at being asked to look after Unified Peaks, one of the crowd favourites works at Waiheke’s Sculpture on the Gulf 2022. We invite everyone to come and take a look and enjoy some shade underneath it while you contemplate the meaning. Have a look below for some images of Unified Peaks at The Heke.

Photo by Peter Rees

Unified Peaks is crafted from materials scavenged from building sites and then upcycled: old scaffolding poles and plastic strapping woven into perforated screens.

“It’s looking at materials on the fringe of construction sites that you don’t normally repurpose or reuse,” he explains, referring to the cast-offs that would otherwise be destined for the tip. “By finding new ways to use them we will hopefully encourage a new type of thinking.”

Excessive waste, along with an average buildings’ high embodied energy — the energy used to manufacture a product — has been of huge concern to the designer during the 10 years he’s been in the industry, and which he’s now committed to improving through his work with his eco-focused architecture practice, FNC Designs.

—— Viva NZ

Visit Francisco’s Instagram page here.

Read the biography on the Waiheke Sculpture on the Gulf 2022 website.

This Viva Article about Unified Peaks is fabulous.