Amazing sculpture from tyres by Ann Marie van Splunter

ERJ staff report (DS)

Paris -- A series of art publications across the web have computer-generated images of the most amazing tyre sculpture this magazine has seen for a while -- and that's saying something.

The proposed sculpture by Dutch artist Ann Marie van Splunter is still in the design stage, but it takes the form of a flower or tree with sinuous, invading roots. Each root is made from a pipe composed of tyres lined up along their axis. Similarly with the leaves and petals: a set of tyres is fixed together and then deformed into curves.

The project is intended to act as a climbing frame for refugee children in Thailand. The school site will be at a school, called Baan Tha Aj in Mae Sot, Tak

Province, Thailand, just 50 meters from the border of Thailand and

Burma. In fact, it is so close to the border, most of the students

just cross the Mei River (dividing Burma and Thailand) to come to

school. There is a total of close to 1000 students, an ethnic mixture

of Thai, Burma and Karen (a local ethnic group).

Van Splunter said, "Tyres are made of latex from the rubbertree and now they have served

their duty, become a sculpture of a rubbertree: that is a life circle."

Take a look!

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Rubbertree, Playground for the Baan Tha Aj School

OpenArchitecture Network (US)

AnneMarie van Splunter Reuses Tires to Create a 'Rubber Tree' Playground

Inhabitots (US)

AnnMarie van Splunter: Rubbertree

Collabcubed (country)

Ann Marie van Splunter met la gomme from Marcel Green (French language)