vending forest by paz martin from spain

“Vending forest” is a new green device to be placed in the urban context.

It consists of a transparent vending machine where people can acquire a forest 24h a day 365 days a year.

A modular division in 44 parts of the image of an ideal forest is transferred on a surface of 220 recycled cotton T-shirts. The 44 T-shirts are hanging in the transparent vending machine, all together; reproduce the entire image of the forest (almost like a puzzle).
While public is using it they give place to new combinations; new forest layouts that depend on the movements of the public, on the transit and on the spatial coincidences between individuals. When the T-shirts are sold they leave an empty spot in the machine and automatically the urban context becomes part of the forest.

Our aim is to create a situation that reflects the internal mechanisms of the encounter between nature and an active audience through the exposition of its own processes of formation and combination. We are very interested in this transformation of the spectator in part of nature that transfer the flat image to the third dimension and with their movement giving rise to a choreography that could recall to the wind that agitates the branches of the trees, or hopefully makes them aware that in reality we are part of it. On the other hand by using this artificial nature what remains in the machine is the real urban context, forcing the public to rethink the real need of it.

The money collected in the vending machine will be used to replant green in hard urban contexts.