smallprojects

gainer mailbox

welded mild steel.

During construction of the
greensplice house, request was
made to locate a monsoon
mailbox (first designed for the
louvrebox house) between
garage and footpath entrance.
The commission was seen as
an opportunity to improve on
the design of the original, to
result of the gainer mailbox.

Conceived after a platform
diving approach called a gainer
and its application to the lid of
the mailbox, fresh mail finds
entry through the front slot,
after which the top lid performs
a back flip in relation to the
opening where dropped mail
is picked up, thereby allowing
full rear access to the mailbox.

The mailbox was left in its
freshly-welded form and finish,
not merely uncostumed and
unclothed, but in full raw.

context

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monsoon mailbox

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gainer mailbox