Start Date
23-10-2025 4:00 PM
End Date
23-10-2025 4:45 PM
Presentation Type
Presentation
Primary Theme
Pedagogy, Andragogy, and Designs
Secondary Theme
Technology
Description
CO-NET was an international Design-Build initiative that brought together over forty students and faculty from the United States and China to build a series of experimental structures on Dongtou, an island near Wenzhou renowned for its fishing industry, ceramic artisans, and tidal landscapes. Developed through a four-month remote collaboration and an intensive on-site construction phase, the project explored the architectural potential of locally sourced waste materials—discarded fishing gear, construction debris, obsolete scaffolding, and plastic waste—through vernacular craft techniques and interdisciplinary design processes. CO-NET functioned as a pedagogical platform for material-driven design, emphasizing sustainability, circularity, and intercultural exchange.
Recommended Citation
del Pino Noriega, Laura, "CO-NET: FROM NETS TO NESTING" (2025). Open Educational Resources Conference. 6.
https://digitalcommons.kean.edu/oer_conference/2025/23rd/6
Aerial view of the pavilion and the site
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Connectors along the steel structural arches
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Plastic bottles transformed into garden sculptures
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Pavilion under construction. Installation of the fish nets and the tying cables
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Fishnets system under construction
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Installation of the counter-balance system
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Woven fishnets and ropes around the structural arches
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Finished pavilion. Entrance point
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Detail of the rope weaving around the structural arches
CO-NET: FROM NETS TO NESTING
CO-NET was an international Design-Build initiative that brought together over forty students and faculty from the United States and China to build a series of experimental structures on Dongtou, an island near Wenzhou renowned for its fishing industry, ceramic artisans, and tidal landscapes. Developed through a four-month remote collaboration and an intensive on-site construction phase, the project explored the architectural potential of locally sourced waste materials—discarded fishing gear, construction debris, obsolete scaffolding, and plastic waste—through vernacular craft techniques and interdisciplinary design processes. CO-NET functioned as a pedagogical platform for material-driven design, emphasizing sustainability, circularity, and intercultural exchange.